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manage distribution of fuel across the country for the thousands of generators. On 3 January Shmyhal also announced legislation to be introduced in 2023 that would reform the State Reserve. This strategic stockpile of materials needed to maintain and repair critical national infrastructure will include establishing minimum reserves of oil and petroleum products, to ensure their continuous supply to the domestic market. Other support for the energy sector has included options that will make the most of power when it is available, for example EC president Ursula von der Leyen announced that the Commission will mobilise around €30 million for the purchase of up to 30 million energy saving lightbulbs for Ukraine.
Looking forward to restoration Long term, Ukraine’s reconstructed electricity system is set to look very different – and may prove a template for countries that are moving from a centralised system to one based on distributed renewables. In his 23 December speech Shymal said “Yesterday, Ukrainian diplomats and power engineers celebrated their professional holiday. These are people of strategically important professions today.” Shmyhal talked about the future power sector during a cabinet meeting on 3 January, when he was quoted by Reuters, saying “Plans for the decarbonisation of energy and the green transformation remain relevant. The war has made these challenges even more urgent. We will use the potential of renewable energy – solar, wind, hydrogen generation, hydrogen technologies – more actively. The Russian attacks push us towards fundamental reform – building a decentralised energy system. It will be less vulnerable to enemy attacks.” He also said, “We are talking about building mini-power plants and small generation facilities, integrated into the existing power grid.” He was reiterating comments made by President Zelensky in his annual presidential address to the Ukrainian parliament on 28 December. The president said, “we set ourselves the goal of becoming a leader in the transformation of our energy sector to counter any threats, any challenges – military, political, economic or even climatic.
“We have to become – and we will become, as there is no other option – a leader in building modern green energy. This will allow us to create
a decentralised energy system that cannot be destroyed by anything, any missile strikes. “Today – everyone can see – it is dangerous when cities depend on several large thermal or power plants. A modern city needs decentralised sources of energy. Only green energy can really provide this.”
Building on comments about decentralisation and digitalisation, Zelensky said “The entire territory of our state needs reconstruction of those infrastructure, energy, social sphere and other objects that do not meet modern security requirements” and asserted that Ukraine’s experience would make it “a leader in the digital transformation of our state and society.” The country has turned its digital expertise to support the war effort but had previously been a key supplier of digital services – the Russian invasion delayed delivery of a new platform for managing reserve and response in the EU’s internal energy market, which was being developed under contract in Ukraine. Before hostilities began Ukraine had been in the process of tendering for wind farm construction. As well as interest from state-owned enterprises, DTEK has also vowed to develop 30 GW of renewable capacity within eight years, and recently presented this “30 by 2030” initiative at WEF 2022, Davos. However, many of Ukraine’s renewable energy assets and opportunities are in wind-rich and flat areas in the country’s southeast that are currently occupied by Russia. The Ukraine Association for Renewable Energy said half of the country’s 9.2 GW of existing renewable energy assets is in areas where active hostilities are taking place and most are out of action.
But Zelensky stressed that Ukraine saw its strength in the energy sector as a post-war asset: “Having a leadership position in such energy and developing our nuclear generation, as well as hydrogen energy, we will be able to provide for the needs of Ukraine, and in peacetime - the needs of Europe. And this will be a historic strengthening of Ukraine’s role in Europe. We can, and therefore must, become one of the guarantors of European energy security. And this is .. a task for tomorrow.” With these assets, he suggested that the cost of reconstruction was equally an investment opportunity and noted that priority would be given to companies which had “supported Ukraine during the war and which left the Russian market”, saying “this is fair”.
Sources worldwide prove generous with generators
Above: Belgian TSO Elia is one of many organisations that have donated generators to Ukraine
More than half a million generators have now been delivered to Ukraine and President Zelensky recently signed an order that would remove value added tax and customs duty on the imports of power generators (as well as Starlink equipment) until May 2023. Some generators have been sent from particular organisations to their Ukrainian counterparts. Among the sources: In January the EU was set to deliver 40 new large generators to Ukraine from the rescEU reserve to provide uninterrupted power to 30 hospitals across the country. It also announced it would deliver 100 small to medium power generators from France, 19 generators from Slovakia, 23 generators from Germany, 252 from Lithuania and four emergency power systems from Poland, while Switzerland sent 40 generators.
Kazakhstani businesses donated 41 generators for Ukrainian healthcare facilities, the Health Ministry reported. Mashav, Israel’s national aid agency, donated 17 generators to Ukraine for use in hospitals in the Kherson area. The pope’s social commissioner, Curia Cardinal Konrad Krajewski brought relief supplies including generators when he spent Christmas in Kyiv on the Pope’s behalf. Japan’s Rakuten Group and Koshin Ltd announced on 22 December that they would donate 500 generators to be shipped from Japan by the end of the year. Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia announced launch of a regional partnership with the Dnipropetrovsk region and donated 370 generators German railway carrier Deutsche Bahn sent 63 generators to Ukrainian state railroad JSC Ukrzaliznytsia and is preparing another 325. The generators will be used to provide electricity to passengers and workplaces of Ukrainian railway workers. The UAE announced in December that it would send 2500 household generators, with power outputs of 3.5-8 kW. As of May 2022, the UK government said it had supplied 856 generators to Ukraine. This includes an initial batch of 569 mobile generators supplied by five companies (Generator Power, Electricity North West, Woodlands Power, SP Energy Networks, and Finning) and 287 purchased by the government from Merseyside-based supplier Speedy Hire.
Above: Tryfonivka PV plant, Kherson, following ‘de-occupation’ (Photo: DTEK)
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