Maintaining Ukraine’s grid reliability under rapid growth of renewable electricity share: challenges in the pre-war, war-time, and post-war periods

The paper deals with the problems of maintaining Ukraine’s grid reliability under high renewable electricity penetration and improving state policy measures to accelerate sustainable energy transition in the post-war period. Promoting renewable energy in Ukraine increased renewable electricity shar...

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Main Authors: Tetiana Kurbatova, Roman Sidortsov, Galyna Trypolska, Daniil Hulak, Iryna Sotnyk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aalborg University Open Publishing 2024-04-01
Series:International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
Online Access:https://discurso.aau.dk/index.php/sepm/article/view/8112
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author Tetiana Kurbatova
Roman Sidortsov
Galyna Trypolska
Daniil Hulak
Iryna Sotnyk
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Galyna Trypolska
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Iryna Sotnyk
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description The paper deals with the problems of maintaining Ukraine’s grid reliability under high renewable electricity penetration and improving state policy measures to accelerate sustainable energy transition in the post-war period. Promoting renewable energy in Ukraine increased renewable electricity share in the country’s electricity mix to 13.8% in 2021. However, such growth became critical for Ukraine’s electric power system. Due to its inflexibility, the lack of balancing and energy storage capacities, adding significant amounts of renewable electricity to the grid created severe problems. Further renewable energy development required serious reforming policy measures, but the Russian invasion prevented introducing relevant legislative changes. At the same time, the war had an unprecedented impact on the Ukrainian energy sector, resulting in the damage of more than 50% of the energy infrastructure. Considering global trends towards decarbonisation and achieving climate neutrality, reconstructing Ukraine’s electric power sector will be based on the large-scale involvement of renewable energy technologies. Given this, based on the study of the trends in renewable energy development in the pre-war and war-time periods and the analysis of the shortcomings of the state energy policy, the paper examines the required measures for fostering resilient reconstruction of Ukraine's electric power sector.
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spelling doaj.art-db524534cae44687b67f2ba91bca404e2024-04-02T15:26:05ZengAalborg University Open PublishingInternational Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management2246-29292024-04-014010.54337/ijsepm.8112Maintaining Ukraine’s grid reliability under rapid growth of renewable electricity share: challenges in the pre-war, war-time, and post-war periodsTetiana Kurbatova0Roman Sidortsov1Galyna Trypolska2Daniil Hulak3Iryna Sotnyk4a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:21:"Sumy State University";}Michigan Technological UniversityNational Academy of Sciences of UkraineBrunel University LondonSumy State University The paper deals with the problems of maintaining Ukraine’s grid reliability under high renewable electricity penetration and improving state policy measures to accelerate sustainable energy transition in the post-war period. Promoting renewable energy in Ukraine increased renewable electricity share in the country’s electricity mix to 13.8% in 2021. However, such growth became critical for Ukraine’s electric power system. Due to its inflexibility, the lack of balancing and energy storage capacities, adding significant amounts of renewable electricity to the grid created severe problems. Further renewable energy development required serious reforming policy measures, but the Russian invasion prevented introducing relevant legislative changes. At the same time, the war had an unprecedented impact on the Ukrainian energy sector, resulting in the damage of more than 50% of the energy infrastructure. Considering global trends towards decarbonisation and achieving climate neutrality, reconstructing Ukraine’s electric power sector will be based on the large-scale involvement of renewable energy technologies. Given this, based on the study of the trends in renewable energy development in the pre-war and war-time periods and the analysis of the shortcomings of the state energy policy, the paper examines the required measures for fostering resilient reconstruction of Ukraine's electric power sector. https://discurso.aau.dk/index.php/sepm/article/view/8112
spellingShingle Tetiana Kurbatova
Roman Sidortsov
Galyna Trypolska
Daniil Hulak
Iryna Sotnyk
Maintaining Ukraine’s grid reliability under rapid growth of renewable electricity share: challenges in the pre-war, war-time, and post-war periods
International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
title Maintaining Ukraine’s grid reliability under rapid growth of renewable electricity share: challenges in the pre-war, war-time, and post-war periods
title_full Maintaining Ukraine’s grid reliability under rapid growth of renewable electricity share: challenges in the pre-war, war-time, and post-war periods
title_fullStr Maintaining Ukraine’s grid reliability under rapid growth of renewable electricity share: challenges in the pre-war, war-time, and post-war periods
title_full_unstemmed Maintaining Ukraine’s grid reliability under rapid growth of renewable electricity share: challenges in the pre-war, war-time, and post-war periods
title_short Maintaining Ukraine’s grid reliability under rapid growth of renewable electricity share: challenges in the pre-war, war-time, and post-war periods
title_sort maintaining ukraine s grid reliability under rapid growth of renewable electricity share challenges in the pre war war time and post war periods
url https://discurso.aau.dk/index.php/sepm/article/view/8112
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