Given the continued Russian missile attacks, Ukraine will have to change the structure of its energy system.

A shift to a large number of distributed small generation facilities is envisioned because it will be difficult and expensive for Russia to fire missiles at hundreds of small power plants, according to the head of the Committee on Energy, Andrii Gerus.

“Work is already underway to slightly change the architecture of the power grid so that we have a great number of small, distributed, decentralized generation points that are closer to the end user. When we have hundreds of small power plants that will be located near consumers, areas where there is a serious consumption of electricity, then it will be practically impossible, or at least very expensive, to fire missiles at small objects,” Gerus added.

According to him, work in this direction is underway. Many solar and gas power plants are currently being installed, mainly in cities.

The head of the energy committee is convinced that “the new configuration will contribute to both the flexibility of the power system and its reliability to provide electricity to end consumers.”