Ukraine’s spare energy can help itself and Europe, writes LJucca
The European Union on May 18 fleshed out its strategy to diversify energy supplies to reduce its dependency on Russian imports.
The EU and Ukraine linked their electricity grids on March 16. The move had been planned since 2017 but was accelerated due to the Russian invasion.Ukraine has transmission links with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. It currently only exports 200 megawatts to Poland, but could increase its export capacity to at least 2.5 gigawatts , nuclear power operator Energoatom Chief Executive Petro Kotin told Breakingviews.
Ukraine has an installed generation capacity of 55 GW, of which about 14 GW are from the country’s 15 nuclear reactors, according to industry sources and Energoatom. The EU had about 950 GW of installed capacity in 2021, according to Deloitte.A Ukrainian flag is seen outside a destroyed house, as villagers return to Moshchun village, amid Russia’s invasion, Kyiv region, Ukraine May 19, 2022.
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