KYIV, Jan 9 – The power system of Ukraine has demonstrated a certain reserve capacity to cope with low temperatures and operates stably, however, saving electricity now in order to avoid outages in the future remains important, head of NPC Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytsky has said.

"We are getting through today even without emergency assistance, which we request from time to time in order to balance the energy system. Even at such low temperatures we can cope on our own, so there is still a certain reserve capacity, but it is not as large as we would like, so we continue to urge our citizens to use electricity carefully over the next few days to avoid blackouts," Kudrytsky said during a national telethon on Monday.