A Stress Test of Resilience: How the Energy System Held Up Last Winter and What Yulia Svyrydenko’s Government Did
14 July 18:39
Last winter in Ukraine was the harshest since the war began, but a catastrophe was averted because scheduled maintenance was carried out on 11.8 GW of capacity, and 4.2 GW of power generation capacity was restored.
Over the past heating season, Ukraine endured more than 500 attacks on its energy infrastructure, along with forecasts of weeks-long blackouts and gas shortages. The country was much closer to disaster than is commonly acknowledged, but the system held up. This is discussed in the analytical review “What Svyrydenko’s Government Is Bringing to the Table: From Weapons on the Front Lines to European Integration, ” published by RBC-Ukraine, reports "Komersant Ukrainian".
“The government’s contribution includes scheduled repairs of 11.8 GW of capacity, the restoration of 4.2 GW, 269 protective structures built, 10.3 billion cubic meters of gas in storage facilities against a target of 14.6, and safeguards put in place for next winter: diversification of supplies via the Klaipėda and Greece LNG terminals and the Vertical Corridor for 4.2 billion cubic meters per year,” the article’s authors noted.
They also emphasized that a separate story from that same winter was the fuel crisis. The main achievement of the Svyrydenko government: they prevented shortages and lines at gas stations, and maintained supply volumes at last year’s level.
“At the peak of prices, the state reimbursed people 15% of the cost of diesel, 10% of gasoline, and 5% of autogas—a fuel cashback program,” the article noted.
The report emphasized that Yulia Svyrydenko’s government will be remembered as the government that weathered the harshest winter the country has ever faced without the catastrophe that both Ukrainian and European experts had predicted.
Earlier, it was reported that Ukraine would sign 160 agreements with partners worth over 10 billion euros during the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk. The investment agreements cover priority areas: security, energy resilience, private sector development, and attracting investment.
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