Wind power surge in Ukraine: 30+ projects in pipeline amid war

Nation

24 June 2024, 05:35 PM

Ukraine is poised for a surge in wind energy projects, with “over 30 projects currently under construction at various stages of readiness,” Ukrainian business news outlet UBN reported on June 24, citing Artem Nekrasov, the head of state-owned company Guaranteed Buyer.

“They are Ukrainian companies, Turkish companies, and German investors. The approximate launch dates for some of them are 2025 and 2027,” he said.

Despite the ongoing war, the new projects are emerging alongside those launched before the full-scale Russian invasion.

DTEK, the country’s largest private energy holding, plans to start the construction of a 650 MW wind farm in Poltava in 2025. DTEK Renewables has already obtained the necessary technical conditions for connecting the wind farm to the Ukrainian power grid and is in negotiations for land plots where five 330 kV substations and wind turbines will be located.

Currently, the most powerful wind farm in Ukraine is Botiivska (200 MW), also owned by DTEK, but it is located in the Russian-occupied part of Zaporizhzhya Oblast.

Other projects include a 300 MW wind farm in Odesa Oblast by the German company Notus Energy and a 150 MW wind farm by Concern Galnaftogaz with IFC support.

Businessman Rinat Akhmetov’s DTEK Group and Vestas, a leading wind turbine manufacturer, have signed a memorandum to complete the construction of Eastern Europe’s largest wind farm, the Tiligul in Mykolaiv Oblast. The first stage of the project was launched in May 2023.

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