Oleksandr Dombrovskyi: A New Energy Philosophy for Ukraine in Wartime

At the forum “Energy of Freedom: Resilience and New Opportunities of the BESS Market”, one of the key speeches came from Oleksandr Dombrovskyi, Deputy Chairman of the Board of MHP and President of MHP Eco Energy. His address offered a systemic view of what must change in Ukraine’s energy sector now — and why the war has completely transformed our national energy agenda.

The war destroyed the old model — a new vision is required

Dombrovskyi began with a core message:

“Discussing energy policy in wartime and in peacetime are two entirely different philosophies.”

The daily destruction of energy infrastructure, he noted, has erased the old market model. The system where 55% was nuclear, 30% coal, 12% hydro and the rest renewables no longer works because thermal generation has been essentially lost.

Therefore, Ukraine needs a new system of distributed generation, where units of 2–3 MW become more important than large plants that are easy targets for attacks.

BESS — the heart of the new energy system

Building a resilient energy architecture is impossible without storage:

“Energy storage systems are the key elements of this new system.”

Dombrovskyi emphasized that MHP already has practical experience:

an industrial BESS + 10 MW of solar,

15 integrated storage projects,

hybrid solutions for biogas and biomass complexes,

an in-house laboratory working with various storage technologies.

“Solar + storage works like a Swiss clock. It’s a unique product and a unique project.”

A model of energy freedom: solar, biomass, biogas, wind and BESS

In recent years, MHP has built one of the largest private clusters of decentralized energy:

5.5 MW biogas plant (2013),

12 MW biogas plant (2019),

800 MW solar potential on rooftops,

a future 60+ MW wind farm,

BESS of various configurations and functions.

This model exists not for the market, but for security:

“We generate everything for ourselves. For us, energy independence is fundamental.”

A challenge to the state: where are the large storage projects?

Dombrovskyi stated openly:

“The state only talks. I don’t know a single government project for 100, 200 or 500 MW of BESS.”

Such projects, he noted, could quickly strengthen the system with support from U.S. and EU partners.

The most important resource today is speed

“The world is accelerating. AI, GPT — everything changes instantly. We need to act now.”

The war makes the market unpredictable. Ukraine cannot afford slow decisions or inertia.

Dombrovskyi’s position outlines a new ideology of energy resilience:
distributed generation + local resources + BESS = Ukraine’s wartime model.

For Global 100 RE Ukraine, this confirms that the country is moving toward an architecture where:

-energy freedom is based on local solutions,

-BESS is not an addition but the core of the system,

-the path to 100% renewables begins with innovations that work today.