Energo: Ukraine looks to Europe to increase power imports this winter

Russia has taken out 35 GW of Ukraine’s electricity generation capability since the beginning of the war, decreasing generation from 55 GW to 20 GW. Already Ukrenergo has introduced rolling blackouts in a dozen regions as installed capacity is not enough to meet demand. And it still summer.

Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko appealed to European partners with a request to facilitate the increase in electricity imports to 2.3 GW from 1.7 GW today, in a speech at the Ukraine Recovery Conference on June 11.

“We need a political and technical solution to increase electricity imports to 2.3 GW,” she said at the Ukraine Recovery Conference.

In addition to import growth, three other priorities in this area are rapid recovery where physically possible, adding up to 1 GW of capacity this year and another 4 GW over the next two years, and credit facilities, she said.