April 2024

The U.S. Coast Guard Academy surveyed about 200 recreational fishermen about their views on the Block Island Wind Farm, the nation’s first offshore power plant operating off the coast of Rhode Island, the smallest U.S. state. The research team found a generally neutral or positive impact on recreational fishing. Many of the respondents believe that […]

BESS is a Battery Energy Storage System designed to accumulate, store and supply electricity to the grid. Its job is to maintain a stable and uninterrupted power supply. According to Alexander Dombrovsky, President of MHP Eco Energy, this is the first industrial energy storage system to be installed and connected to the company’s own grid. […]

The DNV group has prepared the Energy Transition Outlook 2023. The Ukrainian Wind Energy Association has selected the most interesting. Wind generation in the world will increase from 2,000 TWh in 2022 to 18,300 TWh in 2050. The average annual growth rate will be 8%. This progress may be achieved due to a sevenfold increase […]

On April 18, 2024, Galina Schmidt, UWEA Board Member and Vice President of the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA), signed a trilateral Memorandum of Cooperation with the Borodyanka Village Council (Kiyv region, Ukraine) and the charitable organization “Vidvazhni” (“Braves”). As part of the partnership, a small solar power plant will be installed on the roof […]

On Monday, April 22, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy, Housing and Utilities considered several draft laws related to the energy sector. The first of them is on amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On Oil and Gas” regarding the definition of critical gas storage facilities and critical gas transmission pipelines. The other three will […]

The Chairman of the Board of SEAU Vladyslav Sokolovskyi and the Executive Director of SE “Premier Expo”, Director of ReBuild Ukraine exhibition Olena Kononenko signed a Memorandum of Cooperation. The event took place on April 16. The first joint project will be participation in the main engineering exhibition of Ukraine “Aquatherm Kyiv”, where SEAU will […]

The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has prepared and published the latest Global Wind Energy Report. 2023 was the most successful year for the global wind energy sector in its history. The number of newly commissioned wind power capacities increased by as much as 50% compared to the previous year. Thanks to 117 GW of […]

Restoring the centralized energy system, as it was before 2024, is expensive and not always reasonable. An alternative may be to develop a distributed generation using small, but numerous and scattered electricity and heat generation based on wind and solar energy, biogas, Ukrainian gas, etc. This was stated by participants of the press conference “How […]

The Kremlin’s shelling of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has demonstrated its extreme vulnerability to such attacks. We risk entering the winter without the usual power generation. Distributed generation can be a way out of the critical situation. We have to move away from the usual centralized power system. We need to use all the capacities we […]

Halyna Schmidt, member of the Board of the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association and Vice President of the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA), spoke about the trends in the development of wind energy in Ukraine as part of the webinar “Wind Energy Around the World”, held on April 10. She told about situation si the industry […]