“Galushchenko: Zelensky’s Gigawatt will not be ready by the end of the year
11 October 2024 14:24
The state will not be able to launch 1 GW of electricity generation by the end of the year, as planned by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This was stated by the Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Halushchenko during the Energy for Business 2024 forum, according to "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to Forbes.
“By the end of this year, more than 1 GW of equipment for distributed power generation is to be delivered to Ukraine. But it will not be possible to switch everything on at once. In some cities, these installations are already in place, but they will not be able to be connected until January,”
– said the Minister.
At the same time, he said, businesses have now joined the process, generating electricity and even supplying it to the state grid.
“These are important projects, they need to be implemented, and they will help us a lot during the war – at least, they will provide electricity to critical infrastructure in case of blackout,”
– galushchenko said.
As reported 
, on 11 June, at a conference on Ukraine’s recovery in Berlin, President Zelensky said that Ukraine had a clear plan to build 1 gigawatt of capacity by the end of the year. However, the situation is further complicated by the fact that the Russians are now deliberately targeting Zelenskyy’s gigawatt.
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The situation in the Ukrainian energy sector
on 22 March 2024, Russia resumed its attacks on the Ukrainian energy sector, carrying out the most massive shelling in the entire period of the full-scale war. In particular, DniproHES and other Ukrainian energy facilities were hit. Since then, Russia has been regularly shelling Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
For example, the Russians destroyed the Trypillia and Zmiiv thermal power plants, causing Centrenergo to lose 100% of its generation. Also, 5 of DTEK’s 6 thermal power plants were severely damaged.
After that, power outages started again in Ukraine, Ukrenergo introduced blackout schedules and the government raised electricity tariffs by 60% at once.
At the same time, the Cabinet of Ministers decided to build two new units at the Khmelnytsky N PP and has already received the approval of the relevant parliamentary committee. The Razumkov Centre has criticised these plans, but some experts believe that only traitors or scoundrels are against the construction of nuclear power plants today.
Russia launched another massive attack on the Ukrainian energy sector on 26 August. This time, they attacked the distribution and electricity supply systems, and also hit the Kyiv hydroelectric power station.
Some experts believe that the blackouts could last until spring. The National Security and Defence Council’s Disinformation Countermeasures Centre recently voiced a worst-case scenario that envisages blackouts of up to 20 hours a day.
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