- Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, has rebuilt solar power plants in seven days after Russian attacks, compared to three to four months for thermal power plants.
- 400 megawatts of solar power is back in operation after reconstruction of damaged solar panels and transformers.
- Decentralized power generation is much more resistant and difficult to destroy, than centralized.
Quick reconstruction of solar power
DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, continues to expand renewable energy despite repeated Russian attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure. When two of the company’s solar power facilities were attacked last spring, they could be rebuilt and be operational again after only seven days, reports Newsweek.
“That’s the difference between centralized and decentralized power generation. It’s much more resistant and difficult to destroy,” says Maxim Timchenko, CEO of DTEK.
The decentralized nature…
