Energy & Infrastructure
The turn to distributed generation
A system built around a few very large power stations is efficient and concentrated. Ukraine has been rebuilding towards the opposite topology.
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Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
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Energy as a strategic variable: generation, storage, transit and interconnection
Ukraine's energy position has flipped completely in fifteen years — from a transit state dependent on one supplier to a European grid participant with the continent's…
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Metering, billing and the commercial basis of a utility
Everything in an energy market rests on knowing who consumed what. Where metering is poor, no tariff reform, no market and no efficiency programme can work.
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Water supply after Kakhovka
The loss of a reservoir removed the water source for cities, farms and a nuclear plant's cooling. The response was immediate engineering; the reconstruction question is…
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European gauge and the border bottleneck
Two railway systems built to different widths meet at the western border. Everything crossing has to be lifted, tipped or have its wheels changed.
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The Danube ports that carried a country
Izmail and Reni had handled modest volumes for decades. Within months they were moving a large share of a national export trade.
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Rebuilding a grid while it is being hit
The electricity system stayed up through repeated damage. That was not luck; it was a small number of engineering decisions and a very large number of…
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Nuclear safety oversight under extraordinary conditions
Nuclear plants require continuous power, water, staff and independent inspection. Maintaining all four in wartime is an unprecedented problem, and it was addressed procedurally.
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Moving the state to the cloud
In 2022 Ukraine changed its own law so that state data could be held outside the country, then moved it. The decision looks obvious now and…
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Telecommunications that stayed up
A mobile network needs power at every base station. Keeping a country connected through repeated blackouts was a logistics operation more than a technical one.
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The railway as an energy and logistics system
Ukrainian railways carry freight, passengers, evacuations and diplomats. They are also one of the country's largest electricity consumers, which makes them an energy story.
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Hydropower and pumped storage
The most useful thing a hydro plant does in a modern grid is not generate. It is start and stop within minutes, which nothing else on…
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