Wired article on Ukraine's attempt to decentralize their energy grid.
"The Energy Act for Ukraine Foundation is equipping schools and hospitals with solar panels and energy storage systems to nullify Russian attacks on the country's power plants."
The scope of what they have lost to Russia:
Yuliana Onishchuk: Before the war, 55 percent of Ukraine’s generation was
nuclear, and one of the biggest nuclear power plants, which supplied more than half of this nuclear power, was
Zaporizhzhia. Now it is occupied.
Again, before the invasion, 35 percent of energy generation was from thermal power plants, which became a particular focus of Russia this year. They realized that this supply was exactly what they should attack, because you can hardly protect that 35 percent, and it is not as dangerous to target as nuclear.
We lost 80 percent of the
wind power because almost all wind turbines are located in the south. Mostly, the south is occupied. Solar farms that are situated on the east and south were either attacked or stolen—they dismantled solar panels and stole them.
So, we lost a lot. Russia has destroyed 50 percent of our electricity-generation capacity.