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After the wildfires — lessons on being prepared | SaltWire #wildfire #novascotia #thinkingoutoudKYIV - Russia launched a barrage of missiles and drones at Ukraine on Wednesday, hitting nearly a dozen energy infrastructure facilities across the country, in the latest in a string of attacks on the power sector over the past two months.
DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company which typically covers about a quarter of the nation's total energy needs, said the attacks had damaged five of its power plants and took out 80% of their capacity. Now Ukraine has to rely increasingly on its three nuclear power plants, which produce about 60% of its electricity.
Ukraine is also developing renewable energy, hydro-electric power, solar, biogas and wind, which it sees as vital to creating a"decentralised" system that would be less vulnerable to Russian bombing.Russian attacks have forced authorities to impose rolling blackouts in multiple regions, but their full impact will likely be felt when seasonal energy consumption peaks at the height of summer and in winter.
Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, the surrounding region and several other frontline regions in the east are already facing rolling blackouts because of a power shortfall.
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