Ukrhydroenergo: a new station will be built on the site of the destroyed Kakhovska HPP
7.06.2023 - 08:30
“Ukrhydroenergo” plans to build a new station on the site of the Kakhovska HPP destroyed by the Russians after the deoccupation of the territory.
The project will be implemented at an “accelerated pace”, said Ihor Syrota, General Director of Ukrhydroenergo.
“Hydrostructures are being eroded and we understand that we will have to build a new station very quickly. We will build a more beautiful and powerful station at the same place,” he said.
According to Syrota, the company has already started professional discussions on how to quickly block the dam after de-occupation. Specialists of the project institute and builders are involved in this. Experts are also discussing measures to supply water from the upper reservoirs of the Dnipro Cascade to provide areas that will suffer from a lack of water. We are talking about three or four regions.
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The task was set to drill additional wells in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions to obtain fresh water. Water will also be diverted from the Dnieper Cascade to Kryvyi Rih.
“We will save water so that when it is necessary to fill the Kakhov reservoir, we will fill it quickly to provide water to the (affected) areas,” he said.
Syrota specified that these decisions were made at the meetings of the National Security Council and the State Commission for Technogenic and Environmental Safety and Emergency Situations.
