On August 4, according to TASS news agency, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denis Shmyhal said that more than 80% of the country's power plants have been damaged or destroyed after years of conflict.
Mr. Shmyhal said that Ukraine's power generation capacity in the past winter was only about 12GW, much lower than the actual demand. This situation creates a shortage of about 6GW, putting great pressure on the national power system.
Before the conflict broke out in 2022, Ukraine's total power generation capacity reached about 56GW. This means that the country's electricity production capacity has seriously declined after many years of energy infrastructure continuously becoming a target of attack.
According to TASS, Ukraine began to fall into a serious power shortage from the end of 2025 as prolonged cold weather, while many power plants and transmission facilities were heavily damaged. The Ukrainian government at that time was forced to declare a state of emergency in the energy sector to respond to the risk of widespread power supply and demand imbalance.
Although electricity supply has since improved somewhat, Ukrainian experts believe that the national power system has not been fully restored and is still facing many risks, especially during periods of high consumption demand.
Previously, Energy Minister Denis Shmyhal said that Ukraine needed to restore about 10GW of lost power generation capacity, and add about 3GW of capacity from distributed power sources to increase the resilience of the power system to incidents or attacks targeting energy infrastructure.
According to Ukrainian officials, the restoration of the power system will require large capital and long time to repair power plants, transmission lines and transformer stations damaged in the conflict.
