Ukraine’s DTEK to increase country’s wind capacity by a third

Planned for a site in Hlobyne, in the Poltava region to the south-east of Kyiv, its capacity will exceed 600MW. 

Oleg Solovei, deputy director of DTEK Renewables, explained the rationale for its development. He said: “We are looking to the future, despite the war [and are] deliberately and consciously going to this region because a large power plant is very much needed here. Electricity from Poltavska will give an impetus to more rapid development of the economy in Poltava and adjacent regions.”

A trilateral agreement has been signed with the city council and an organisation that will provide spatial planning expertise. Once the spatial planning work is completed, a survey of the local bird population will also be carried out.

The pre-design work will involve a series of surveys, the development of a territory plan and preparation of an environmental assessment report. These will be completed by May 2024. 

It is intended to bring the wind farm into operation in late 2025 or early 2026 and if that is achieved, it would raise Ukraine’s installed wind capacity by around a third.

Earlier this year, DTEK commissioned the 114MW Tyligulska wind farm in the Mykolaiv region, close to the front line of the war with Russia. It was the first wind project to be completed since the outbreak of war in February 2022.

Elementum Energy’s 60.5MW Dnistrovska II wind farm in Odessa then also successfully commenced commercial operations in June 2023.

Meanwhile, further west in Ukraine, construction is nearing completion at Eco-Optima Group’s 54.6MW Skolivska project near Lviv. Comprising ten N149/5.X turbines, it is scheduled to be commissioned in December.