DTEK unveils Ukraine’s first energy storage center

Ukrainian energy giant DTEK, in a joint venture with US company Honeywell and Canada’s SunGrid Solutions, yesterday opened the country’s first energy storage facility, a moment which was described by Minister of Ecology Roman Abramovsky as “the beginning of a long path to energy diversification”.

The official opening of the 2.25MWh-capacity battery unit, which can supply up to 1MW at any given time, was held jointly via video link in two places: at the plant’s location in the town of Energodar, located in Zaporizhia Oblast, and in DTEK’s headquarters in Kyiv. It’s a start but still very small scale, considering Ukraine’s electrical power consumption of 133.20 billion kilowatt hours.