KYIV, May 27 – Private Joint Stock Company Pokrovsky Mining and Processing Plant (formerly Ordzhonikidze Mining and Processing Plant, Dnipropetrovsk region) due to a lack of electricity, will presumably continue to stand idle and is building its own solar power plant (SPP) by September with a capacity of 1 MW.

As Pokrovsky Mining's chief power engineer Pavlo Litun said in the corporate publication "For Manganese," power outage schedules have been applied to the plant for more than a month. At first, this mainly applied to the evening time – from 18:00 to 23:00, when city residents return home from work and en masse turn on electrical appliances for household needs, but over time the restrictions became stricter – they began to be applied at night, in the morning, and during the day, depending on the situation.