Good news! Exports started in early July via Romania! This could also be a game changer!
Apparently, the President of the Ukraine Zelenskyy has just announced an increase of these exports!
Since March 2022, the power grid of the Ukraine is connected to the power grid of the EU. The Ukraine generates a substantial amount of its electrical power via nuclear power plants (about 24%).
"... Ukraine’s integration with the European network of transmission system operators for electricity (ENTSO-E) was not scheduled to take place until 2023 and was subject to passing difficult tests and breaking free from the old Soviet lines linking the country to the Russian and Belarusian grids.
However, Ukraine outperformed all expectations in synchronizing with the European system well ahead of time despite the exceptionally gruelling circumstances of Europe’s largest conflict since WWII. This made it possible for the Ukrainian electricity grid system operator, Ukrenergo, to allocate the first 100 megawatts (MW) of transmission capacity for commercial exports to neighboring Romania.
The interconnection capacity is small for now but the Ukrainian operator expects to increase it gradually to 1.5 gigawatts (GW) before the end of this year and expand it to additional neighboring ENTSO-E countries Slovakia and Hungary shortly, subject to further upgrades in order to stabilize the relevant infrastructure.
Ukraine’s operator also expects to raise the capacity of a separate isolated power line with Poland to 1GW by the beginning of next year. ..."
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