{"id":43695,"date":"2026-06-18T17:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?p=43695"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:42:47","slug":"ukraine-bets-on-wind-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/ukraine-bets-on-wind-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Bets on Wind Power to Shield Grid from Russia\u2019s Relentless Energy Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fitting the wind turbines into the grid is also a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Since the war began, Ukraine has heavily leaned on its three active nuclear plants to provide its base load of energy \u2013 the minimum level of power needed to meet demand over a given period, with its largest nuclear plant under Russian occupation.<\/p>\n<p>The coal and gas-fired plants designed to cover peak loads \u2013 when demand is greater \u2013 have suffered heavy damage in Russian strikes, heaping pressure on weather-dependent renewables.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For renewables to be able to cover peak consumption, there needs to be \u201csignificant investment in energy storage systems,\u201d Hlib Vyshlinsky, director of Kyiv\u2019s Centre for Economic Strategy, told AFP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/post\/78421\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kyivpost<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More news from CES experts can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?cat_ID=54\"><b>the link<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fitting the wind turbines into the grid is also a challenge. Since the war began, Ukraine has heavily leaned on its three active nuclear plants to provide its base load of energy \u2013 the minimum level of power needed to meet demand over a given period, with its largest nuclear plant under Russian occupation. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":34143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[187,200],"tags":[595],"experts":[170],"news_type":[139],"class_list":["post-43695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-in-the-media-en","category-news-list-en","tag-energy-en","experts-hlib-vyshlinsky-en","news_type-we-are-in-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43697,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43695\/revisions\/43697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43695"},{"taxonomy":"experts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/experts?post=43695"},{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=43695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}