Ukraine could receive equipment from at least six decommissioned thermal power plants and combined heat-and-power plants from Latvia, Austria, Finland, Croatia, France and Germany.
Agreements on the possibility of obtaining decommissioned equipment and delivering it quickly to Ukraine were reached during a meeting of the International Energy Agency, Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
“The equipment will be moved and quickly installed. We’re talking about at least six decommissioned thermal and CHP plants that will be handed over to Ukraine. This will allow us to rapidly restore key stations destroyed by the enemy. They will provide Ukrainians with heat,” he wrote on his Telegram account.
A few days earlier, Shmyhal explained how Ukraine is taking equipment from thermal and CHP plants in Eastern European countries.
Ukrainian specialists independently conduct assessments and analyze equipment, then decide what to take if possible.
According to him, Ukraine has significant needs for equipment to repair its thermal power and combined heat-and-power plants. To finance these needs, partners have contributed €1.8 billion to a special Energy Support Fund.
Energy expert Oleksandr Kharchenko has said power companies lack the equipment needed to repair facilities damaged by Russian strikes.
According to him, warehouse reserves have already been exhausted.
Since late January, Russia’s military has carried out regular strikes on Ukrainian thermal plants in Kyiv, the Kyiv region and other parts of the country.
Volodymyr Omelchenko, director of energy programs at the Razumkov Center, said it could take several years and about €600–700 million to restore Kyiv’s CHP-4, which was almost completely destroyed.
