Ukrainian energy company DTEK will continue its plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040 despite the ongoing Russian invasion.
In a speech at COP27, DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko noted that Ukraine can become a country that produces 100% clean energy, using nuclear, hydro, wind and solar.
He said that DTEK is currently promoting the idea of building new generating capacities in Ukraine to deliver 30GW of green energy by 2030. He paid particular attention to the decentralisation of the Ukrainian energy system.
Timchenko said: “DTEK is the largest investor in renewable energy in Ukraine and we will not abandon our plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040. Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine is demonstrating the importance of energy independence for security and peace across Europe, and renewable energy will have an increasingly important role to play. We also need to accelerate Ukrainian plans for decarbonisation.
“We must install renewable energy sources in many parts of the country. And for flexibility, we need energy storage systems – batteries – on an industrial scale. Eighteen months ago, DTEK launched the first energy storage system in Ukraine with a capacity of one megawatt. Now we are developing the same system so it has a capacity of 20MW.”