victor, and they re aiming at the russians aiming at breaking down the energy system here in ukraine. the ukrainians are being remarkably resill yent and they re saying they re hopefully able to get kyiv up and running tomorrow, and even looking to reconnect kherson city to the national grid. that s been disconnected for many months after russians destroyed the links on their way out of the city and destroyed the generating capacity in that city. close to a miracle there. the problem is though that even if they get it all back and kind of gerrymandered to fix, it s not at full capacity. that is two years away. they say they cannot get the equipment anywhere in the world to repair their network back to pristine level, but they are proving capable of getting it back, but every time they get it back, the country goes into scheduled cuts power cuts as they try to reroute electricity
The United States Energy Information Administration (“EIA”) issued a November 4th report titled: U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity for Combined-Cycle Natural Gas.
selma abdelaziz is tracking developments from london. nic, first of all, this latest wave of attacks on ukraine, does it show a change in strategy? reporter: russia seems to be embarking on a war of attrition of ukraine s electrical generating capacity. this is something that is clearly intended to weaken the resolve of the ukrainian government and people, which it is not. it is also intended to make the winter here much harsher, but there is a reality. two hours ago we were broadcasting, there was a strike on kyiv, it hit a power plant and our broadcast went down because there was a ripple effect through the energy supply networks in the city and it s likely because this is atritional by russia, small stations day by day by day, kharkiv, to the west of here, dnipro to the south, that this
they can do is take it off the grid, rely now entirely on the backup systems, either its own capacity to generate power or the diesel generators to keep it cool in order to make sure that in their view it doesn t represent a hazard to the rest of the country. but this is a very dramatic development because its at peak this is a nuclear facility that provided 20% of ukraine s total generating capacity. that has been substantially reduced since the russians captured it on march 4th this year but it has still be supplying up until recently power into the ukrainian national grid. they will have to get their electricity elsewhere. what this does also do is in theory anyway prevent the russians effectively from stealing the electricity and trying to move it into their own network. sam, can you give us more details about the latest big wins for ukrainian forces? reporter: yeah, this has been
what s more the electricity industry knows that well. knows that well. do we have that ca aci knows that well. do we have that capacity for knows that well. do we have that capacity for storage knows that well. do we have that capacity for storage at knows that well. do we have that capacity for storage at the - knows that well. do we have that. capacity for storage at the moment? no we don t. so try to say if we are going to deal with the medium to long term problem we need to change very much the direction of our energy policy away from this concern focus on the supply side without doing anything about the demand. without doing anything about the fact that most of our generating capacity in britain doesn t earn any revenues most of the topic as he is such an inefficient grid. there is an enormous amount we can do to invest in making our existing capacity to deliver more to consumers and lower bills and not do more nuclear which could raise bills. br; more nuclear which could r