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23.03.2024

UWEA AND ITS MEMBER COMPANIES TOOK PART IN THE 2024 WINDEUROPE’S CONFERENCE IN SPAIN

On 20-22 March 2024, representatives of the UWEA Secretariat and a number of its member companies took part in the WindEurope Annual Event 2024 - a key gathering place for onshore and offshore wind energy, which this year was held in the capital of the Basque Country - Bilbao. The event aimed at advocating wind energy to ensure the livelihoods of Europeans, the energy security of the European region, and the preservation of its climate and nature, this year was held under the tagline “Our wind, our value - Creating value for Europe, living in line with European values”. The three-day exhibition and conference gathered more than 12,000 people, 520 exhibiting companies, 14 Ministers and 400 other speakers from politics, industry and academia. Traditionally the conference was opened with a ministerial session. Roman Andarak, Director General of the Directorate for Strategic Planning and European Integration of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, gave one of the keynote speeches. Thus,...

12.03.2024

UWEA ADDRESSED THE MOST COMMON QUESTIONS REGARDING MERCHANT POWER MARKET ACTIVITIES

The 10+ most common challenges that renewable energy producers face when operating in the merchant power market was the topic of another UWEA webinar held on March 12, 2024. One of the most ground-breaking changes in the “green” energy industry of recent years has been the provision of the right for RES producers to leave the balancing group of the SE Guaranteed Buyer and conduct independent trading activities on the merchant power market. After more than six months of implementing these legislative initiatives, the UWEA has opted to discuss issues that frequently occur when companies switch to a new electricity trading format or are thinking about doing so. Representatives of such UWEA member companies as Illya Prytula, Head of Green Energy at Energy Company of Ukraine (ECU), and Vitaliy Radchenko, Managing Partner at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, shared their experience and expert opinion during the online discussion. The guest speaker was Yuriy Artemenko, a member of the...

29.02.2024

UKRAINE AND GERMANY: HOW WIND ENERGY COMPANIES OPERATE IN UKRAINE

This year's first international webinar was held by the UWEA in collaboration with the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) on February 29, 2024. The webinar titled “Ukrainian Wind Power Market” provided insights into the current market status, already adopted and expected changes in RES legislation, available market advantages, and opportunities as well as the contribution of German wind business in wind deployment in Ukraine. The webinar featured the experience of such UWEA member companies as NOTUS Energy Plan GmbH & Co. KG and Deutsche WindGuard GmbH. In her opening remarks, Dorothee Baxmann, Project Manager at BWE and webinar’s moderator noted that Ukraine has immense potential for both onshore and offshore wind energy. “Ukraine has completed more onshore wind turbines than England since it was occupied by russian soldiers,” Mrs. Baxmann recalled.  The discussion started with a speech by Dr. Yulia Rybak, Advisor to the Minister of Energy of Ukraine, Co-Head of...

22.02.2024

ONSHORE WIND AMONG THE TOP CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR UKRAINE TODAY

On February 22, 2024, the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine gathered representatives of local authorities, energy companies as well as energy project developers and international partners, to present the Catalogue of Critical Technologies for the Energy Sector of Ukraine (hereinafter - the Catalogue), developed in cooperation with the Danish Energy Agency. Andriy Konechenkov, Chairman of the UWEA Board, was among the participants of the ministerial event ‘‘Critical Technologies for the Energy Sector of Ukraine’’ and learned about certain technological solutions that are most relevant to Ukraine's needs firsthand. Herman Galushchenko, Minister of Energy of Ukraine:  ‘‘The massive russian air attacks on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure provide compelling evidence of the need to decentralize the system and increase the capacity of distributed power generation. Therefore, the Catalogue includes a technologies of fast-tracking implementation to develop such type of...

22.02.2024

THE FULL-SCALE WAR AGAINST UKRAINE HAS NOT STOP THE NATIONAL WIND POWER SECTOR FROM INCREASING ITS CAPACITY BY 228 MW OVER TWO YEARS

Despite all the internal and external challenges, permanent shelling of the energy infrastructure by russia, disruptions in the supply chains, reduction in the number of able-bodied personnel, etc., 228 MW of wind power additions was built and commissioned in the country during the two years of full-scale war, of which 146.3 MW was put into operation only in 2023. By the end of 2023, the total installed capacity of the wind power sector in Ukraine, had reached 1,900,8 MW (including wind farms in the temporarily occupied territories except for Crimea). This is stated in the UWEA’s Market Overview “Ukrainian Wind Power Sector 2023”, which was prepared in cooperation with the law firm INTEGRITES. Over the past two years, the UWEA member companies such as DTEK Renewables, Elementum Energy, Eco-Optima LLC, and MC “Wind Parks of Ukraine” have become the owners of new wind power capacities including 114 MW Tyligulska WPP, the most widely publicized in the international arena....

21.02.2024

UWEA’S WEBINAR COVERED SOME ASPECTS OF WPPS CONNECTION TO THE GRID

The first webinar in the 2024 UWEA Webinar series was held on February 20, 2024. It was devoted to some peculiarities of connecting wind projects to the electricity grid. The complicated and imperfect grid connection procedure is currently at the heart of many expert discussions and RES industry events in Ukraine. Thus, within this webinar, the UWEA together with its member companies IKNET Energy Engineering and LCF Law Group talked about such important issues related to the WPP grid connection procedure as electrical mode calculation and the energy storage potential impact on Ukraine's grid. Oleksandr Zhyhalyuk, Head of the Transmission System Development Department at the NPC Ukrenergo also took part in the discussion. The webinar was moderated by Andriy Konechenkov, Chairman of the UWEA Board. In his presentation, Yuriy Podolyak, CEO of IKNET Energy Engineering, outlined the company’s experience in calculating electrical modes based on real cases. Also, he pointed out the...

14.02.2024

CHAIRMAN OF THE UWEA BOARD SPOKE AT THE FORUM “REBUILDING IN ACTION 2.0.”

On February 14, 2024, during the international construction fair KyivBuild Ukraine, a forum-workshop called “Rebuilding in Action 2.0” took place. This year's forum was attended by leading Ukrainian and international construction specialists, as well as state authorities, urban self-government, national and international non-governmental programs and organizations, such as USAID, USAID\DOBRE, Foundation of Polish-Ukrainian cooperation (PAUCI), Confederation of Builders of Ukraine (CBU), etc. One of the Forums’ experts was Andriy Konechenkov, Chairman of the UWEA’s Board, who spoke at the first session “Public-Private Partnership as a Tool to Increase the Financial Capacity of Communities” organized by the Irpin Recovery Fund. The discussion was moderated by Volodymyr Karpliuk, Founder of the Irpin Recovery Fund, Chairman of the Irpin Investment Council, and Head of regional representation for CBU in the Kyiv region, who emphasized the importance of state-business...

12.02.2024

KINDERGARTEN IN IRPIN BENEFITING FROM SOLAR ENERGY

Since the beginning of the war unleashed by the russian federation against Ukraine, the UWEA has been involved in volunteer activities, in particular through a specially created online platform #Renewables4Ukraine (https://www.renewables4ukraine.org/ ) by UWEA and World Wind Energy Association (WWEA). In December 2022, the Finnish NGO EKOenergy ekolabel  joined the #Renewables4Ukraine campaign. It was thanks to their generous donation that the local community of Irpin received several mobile solar systems. Last week, Volodymyr Karpliuk, chairman of the Irpin Investment Council and co-founder of the Foundation of Irpin Restoration, said that solar panels had been successfully installed in “Dzhereltse” preschool department of the Irpin gymnasium "Osvita". The installed capacity of solar panels is 10 kW. The installation of solar panels was the result of the signed Memorandum of Cooperation and Partnership between the WWEA, the Foundation of Irpin Restoration, and the Irpin City...

07.02.2024

UWEA TOOK PART IN THE SEMINAR “PROSPECTS FOR CONNECTING WIND POWER PROJECTS TO THE POWER GGRID”

On 06 February 6, 2024, the UWEA joined a seminar organized by the UWEA’s member - law firm Asters “Prospects for connecting wind energy projects to the grid”, dedicated to the need to reform approaches to issuing technical specifications for connecting wind farms to the grid and rationalizing the cost of such connection.  Oleksandr Zhygalyuk, Head of the Transmission System Development Department at NPC “Ukrenergo”, noted that before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, technical specifications for new RES capacities totaling 17 GW were issued, which, accordingly, raised the issue of balancing to a new level of importance. Thus, according to pre-war estimates, to balance this capacity, it’s also necessary to add 1.4 GW of maneuvering capacity in the form of gas turbines and about 700 MW of energy storage systems to the system. “Even though since the beginning of the war, the system operator has faced the problem of capacity shortages and changes in the structure of...

26.01.2024

THE FIRST WIND TURBINE IN ZAKARPATTIA REGION

Wind Parks of Ukraine, one of Ukraine's leading wind energy companies with over 10 years of experience in the national renewable energy sector, has completed the installation of the first wind turbine at Ostrovsky Wind Park, located in the Nyzhnevoritska community on the border of Lviv and Zakarpattia regions. Wind turbine produced by Ukrainian company Friendly Windtechnology has a unit capacity of 4.8 MW, a hub height of 120 m, and a rotor diameter of 152 m When completed, the Ostrovsky Wind Park will have a total installed capacity of 80 MW. The amount of electricity to be generated is enough to provide annually about 50,000 households with clean electricity. Environmentally friendly electricity is not the only advantage that the local community will benefit from the electricity generated by Ostrovsky Wind Park. The social partnership agreement concluded between Ostrovsky Wind Park and the Nyzhnevoritska community provides for 3% of the revenue from electricity sales to be...