Power outages greatly affect lives of more than 40% of Ukrainians - survey

According to the Razumkov Center's website, the survey was conducted by the organization's sociological service in late December 2022 and completed in early January 2023.

According to the results, over the past 3 months before the survey, 73% of respondents had their power cut off, usually more than once a day, 14% - once per day, 7% - several times a week, but not every day, 1.5% - once a week, 2% - less than once a week, 0.5% - once a month, and 1% - never or almost never.

"When asked how much power outages, both at home and elsewhere, affect their daily lives, 19% of respondents answered "very much", 24% - "quite a lot", 35% - "moderately", 8% - "slightly", 4% - "not at all", the press service informed.

Residents of large cities, namely those with a population of 100,000 or more, reported the greatest impact on their lives of the lack of power supply at home. The experts noted that "49% (of respondents - ed.) said that these outages affect their lives very much or quite a lot." 

The Ukrainians surveyed assessed the elimination of the consequences of Russia's attacks on the Ukrainian energy system as follows: 14% of respondents expressed a low level of satisfaction (from 0 to 3 out of 10 points), and 55.5% of respondents expressed a high level of satisfaction (from 7 to the maximum 10 points).

"Assessing the fairness and justification of cutting power supply for different consumers (when some experience outages more often and others less often) in the area where they live, on a scale from zero to 10, where 0 means "no fairness and justification at all" and 10 means "everything is quite fair and justified," respondents give them an average score of 6.1 points. The level of fairness and reasonableness of cutting power supply for different consumers is rated low (from 0 to 3 points) by 17% of respondents, and high (from 7 to 10 points) by 44% of respondents," the experts added.

• As a reminder, on January 15, YASNO CEO Serhiy Kovalenko said that part of the TPPs is currently out of service due to serious damage, the energy deficit is huge, and he cannot say how long the repair work will take.