Full Blackout: Thousands Of People In The Moscow Region Remain Without Electricity For The Second Day
10- 3.05.2025, 12:49
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Because of the biggest accident in 15 years.
More than 18 thousand residents of the Moscow region live without electricity for the second day due to large-scale snowfalls, which caused the largest accident on power grids in the last 15 years. This was reported by the authorities of the region, writes The Moscow Times.
On the morning of May 3, electricity supply was cut off in 348 settlements in the Moscow region. These are at least "10,089 houses with 18,160 residents, including more than 4,500 children," a source in the emergency services told TASS.
Because of snowfalls that began on the night of May 2, more than 1,500 trees fell in 14 districts of the Moscow region, causing power lines and substations to fail. 199 cars were damaged, the source specified. According to the interlocutor, emergency work to restore infrastructure is being carried out in 11 urban districts of the Moscow region: Klin, Dmitrovsky, Pushkin, Sergiev Posad, Taldomsky, Mytishchi, Khimki, Solnechnogorsk, Istra, Krasnogorsk and Ruzsky.
"In the Moscow region in the north blackout for a day. Hundreds of villages without light. SNT Krasnaya Gorka, Mytishchi urban district - since 6 am there is no light. We have two children, but we have a generator and a gas stove. Full blackout", - local residents write in social networks.
This accident was the largest for the past fifteen years, said the Director General of PJSC "Rosseti Moscow region" Alexander Pyatigor. According to him, the restoration work, in which 200 emergency crews are involved, continued all night.
The Rosseti also explained that the cause of large-scale damage to power grids was a massive fall of trees on the wires against the background of snowfalls, wet snow and frost. In some areas, in addition to repairing the breaks, new transmission line supports had to be installed, the service said.
On Friday night in Moscow, 22% of the May norm of precipitation (or 14 mm) fell, said an expert of the weather center "Phobos" Evgeny Tishkovets. On the eve, the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov reported about 26 thousand people deprived of electricity as a result of bad weather. According to his data, 237 power lines and 4.4 thousand transformer substations were de-energized.
The authorities promised to eliminate all the consequences of the accident by the end of the day on May 3.
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