{"id":2631,"date":"2022-05-20T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T11:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dossier.org.ua\/news\/extensive-use-of-renewable-energy-guarantee-survival\/"},"modified":"2022-05-22T18:43:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T15:43:22","slug":"extensive-use-of-renewable-energy-guarantee-survival","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.dossier.org.ua\/en\/news\/extensive-use-of-renewable-energy-guarantee-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"The wide use of renewable energy helps survival in extreme situations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Renewable energy – wind, solar, hydro, and wave energy, complemented by hydrogen technology – is more resilient and achieves climate neutrality, which has been announced by many countries around the world to overcome the current climate crisis. Basically, renewables are often seen as the means to survive the global climate crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the war in Ukraine proved that the use of wind and solar power is the key to the physical survival of the population in crisis situations.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Many occupied territories and settlements on the frontline of Ukraine are cut off from the central electricity, water, and gas supplies. It happened during heavy fighting as Russian troops advanced or just a few days after the occupation due to infrastructure damage. Power outages are not news for many villages and towns in Ukraine, so many residents keep diesel or gasoline generators as a backup source of energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in the face of hostilities and disrupted logistics chains, such backup generators have proved unreliable due to a lack of access to fuel. Without electricity, water and gas, many people had only one solution for heating houses in freezing temperatures and for cooking meals \u2013 use firewood. However, firewood cannot provide access to water and communication, but solar panels can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the occupation in the north of Kyiv region, home PV panels became the only source of energy for their owners and neighbors. Oleksiy H., a resident of Yasnohorodka, had a 10 kW solar-powered station in his garden. When the village came under occupation, Oleksiy, a power engineer by profession, was able to transform it into an autonomous SES and quickly set up an “energy island” for himself. The PV panels have become an energy source not only for his house, they fed the pump for water supply, and provided energy for the neighboring houses, covering the basic needs of residents until the centralized energy supply was restored. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the resident of Zoryn village in Vyshhorod district, Oleksandr Ts. who also had PV panels in his garden, disassembled them and passed them to the neighbors along with instructions on how to plug them in to supply electricity. Thanks to these panels, more than 50 houses and a local boarding house with more than 100 people (many of them with disabilities) were able to survive the russian occupation, providing themselves not only with electricity but also with water through electric pumps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A similar story happened to the residents of Malyovnyche real estate near the village of Myla located west of Kyiv. In the village, where all the power grids network has been burned along with wires and poles during the fighting in early March, there were two autonomous rooftop solar stations, so people were able to use them to charge phones, power banks, and water pump to collect water from wells during the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, most residents of Malyovnyche have experienced the benefits of rooftop PV power stations, and many intend to install them in their own homes after the restoration of the town. That was concluded not only by people who survived the occupation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In mid-March, the gas transport system operator in Ukraine announced that it would equip gas distribution stations with solar panels to provide backup power – this was necessary due to significant damage to electrical networks in combat zones. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Director-General Sergiy Makogon<\/a> explained on his facebook, that this step was planned before the war as an initiative to optimize energy consumption, but since the electricity supply grids suffer significantly from constant enemy fire, it became an urgent need to ensure the smooth operation of the system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And at the end of April two local clinics in Borodyanka and Irpin \u2013 town that suffered severely from the russian occupation, installed six sets of solar panels with a 40 kW Tesla Powerwall energy storage system to ensure uninterrupted energy supply. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These systems were donated to them by Tesla founder Elon Musk (he had previously donated a batch of StarLink systems to the country to ensure uninterrupted Internet access during hostilities and solar panel kits to power kits).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this light, it can be concluded, that the use of renewable autonomous energy supply systems, in addition to energy independence and overcoming the climate crisis, enables the physical survival of people in extreme situations, providing not only a backup source of electricity but also access to water, most importantly, helps people to stay connected and have access to network communications.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Olga Ignatenko, Information Center \u201cGreen Dossier\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1498,"template":"","news-rubrics":[43],"class_list":["post-2631","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-rubrics-energy-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe wide use of renewable energy helps survival in extreme situations - \u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0435 \u0434\u043e\u0441\u044c\u0454<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The wide use of renewable energy helps survival in extreme situations\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dossier.org.ua\/en\/news\/extensive-use-of-renewable-energy-guarantee-survival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The wide use of renewable energy helps survival in extreme situations - 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