Poland and Ukraine will join their energy techniques by the top of this 12 months, permitting cross-border commerce in a time of rising concern over power safety following Russia’s invasion.
The ability line will join Poland’s southeastern metropolis of Rzeszów with Khmelnytskyi in western Ukraine and have a voltage of 400 kV, stated Piotr Naimski, the Polish authorities’s commissioner for strategic power infrastructure, at an power convention in Gdańsk, experiences Polskie Radio.
He added that work on the Polish facet of the road can be accomplished this 12 months and that the 2 nation’s grid operators – PSE in Poland and Ukrenergo in Ukraine – are engaged on an settlement for its operation.
PSE i Ukrenergo chcą połączyć systemy elektroenergetyczne. Wiemy, kiedy zostaną zakończone prace https://t.co/miZyEs4Ekb
— Gospodarka – Polskie Radio (@Gospodarka_PRSA) June 12, 2022
The road will make it “potential to export power from Ukraine to Poland” but additionally “to import power from Poland sooner or later in case of issues in Ukraine”, stated Oleksandr Motsyk, an advisor to Ukraine’s power minister, quoted by the Biznes Alert information service.
PSE has introduced that design work for its facet of the connection is already underway and tenders for tools and development are being organised. The price of the mission on the a part of PSE is estimated at round 30 million zloty (€6.44 million).
Presently, the one line working throughout the Polish-Ukrainian border doesn’t join the facility techniques of the 2 nations, however two Ukrainian energy crops on to the Polish power system. Earlier than the outbreak of battle, Ukraine additionally exported electrical energy to neighbouring Romania, Slovakia and to Hungary.
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The power techniques of Ukraine and Europe had been synchronised within the first month of the battle. This month, ENTSO-E, the organisation of European electrical energy transmission operators, agreed to the preconditions offered by Ukrenergo, which regularly open up new alternatives for electrical energy commerce with Ukraine.
At this week’s convention, Naimski informed reporters that Poland would search to hurry up the completion of a floating storage regasification unit for liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) in Gdańsk. The federal government just lately introduced that the power can be twice as large as beforehand deliberate as a consequence of curiosity from Ukraine, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Motsyk additionally revealed that Ukraine is eager to “share out data and expertise in nuclear power with Poland”, whose authorities is within the strategy of creating the nation’s first nuclear energy crops.
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Alicja Ptak is senior editor at Notes from Poland and a multimedia journalist. She beforehand labored for Reuters.
