DTEK launches Eastern Europe''s largest battery storage system
Ukraine''s biggest private energy firm, DTEK, has launched a major battery storage facility that will bring power to hundreds of thousands of homes and strengthen the grid ahead
Kyiv wants to up this to 27% by 2030. Other similar energy storage systems in Eastern Europe include Lithuanian electricity transmission system operator Litgrid's 200-MW units launched in 2023 and a 55-MW battery energy storage system in Razlog in southwestern Bulgaria that went online in 2024.
Lithium is key to Europe's efforts to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and transition to green energy. Much of Ukraine's lithium potential remains at the resource estimation stage rather than being fully proven reserves. At this level of certainty, Ukraine would have the world's 17th largest lithium deposits.
Rod Schoonover, a national security expert and founder of the U.S.-based Ecological Futures Group, said it is unlikely that seizing Ukraine's lithium deposits was a major war objective for Moscow. Russia itself has significant reserves. Still, Ukraine's mineral wealth is one reason the country is important to Russia, experts say.
The Kyiv Pumped-Storage Power Plant ( Ukrainian: Ки́ївська гідроакумулювальна електростанція) is a pumped-storage power station on the west bank of the Kyiv Reservoir in Vyshhorod, Ukraine. The Kyiv Reservoir serves as the lower reservoir and the upper reservoir is located 70 m (230 ft) above the lower.
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