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Despite all the internal and external challenges, permanent shelling of the energy infrastructure by russia, disruptions in the supply chains, reduction in the number of able-bodied personnel, etc., 228 MW of wind power additions was built and commissioned in the country during the two years of full-scale war, of which 146.3 MW was put into operation only in 2023. By the end of 2023, the total installed capacity of the wind power sector in Ukraine, had reached 1,900,8 MW (including wind farms in the temporarily occupied territories except for Crimea). This is stated in the UWEA’s Market Overview “Ukrainian Wind Power Sector 2023”, which was prepared in cooperation with the law firm INTEGRITES. Over the past two years, the UWEA member companies such as DTEK Renewables, Elementum Energy, Eco-Optima LLC, and MC “Wind Parks of Ukraine” have become the owners of new wind power capacities including 114 MW Tyligulska WPP, the most widely publicized in the international arena.
Today, wind energy accounts for 21.7% of the total RE installed capacity and is still the second most dominant sector after solar energy. According to statistics, Ukraine's renewable energy sector has an installed capacity of 10.8 GW. At the same time, as of the end of 2023, there were only 583.8 MW of wind capacities directly supplying “green” electricity to the IPS of Ukraine, as 71% of WPPs are currently in the temporarily occupied territories.
According to the strategic plans of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, it is expected to increase the total installed wind power capacity to 10 GW by 2032.
The UWEA is convinced that 2023 will go down in the history of the national wind energy industry as the year when the direct installation of wind turbines was carried out by Ukrainian companies with the remote/online participation of foreign contractors and wind turbine manufacturers. In its Overview, the UWEA also pays detailed attention to such positive policy initiatives as the adoption of the Law of Ukraine on Restoration and “Green” Transformation of the Energy System of Ukraine, which enabled wind power producers to switch to the market premium and contracts for difference mechanism and reboot the issue of guarantees of origin in Ukraine. Thus, about 78% of wind generation in the territory controlled by Ukraine had left the Balancing Group of the Guaranteed Buyer and entered the merchant power market.
At the same time, achievement of the declared ambitious goals of building dozens of gigawatts of new capacity will require attracting dozens of billions of euros in investments from international and Ukrainian financial institutions as well as resolving of current market challenges. The UWEA analysed these challenges and proposed solutions in its 2023 Wind Energy Development Concept until 2030, which is also mentioned in the Overview.
The authors of the Overview particularly wish to express their gratitude to the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine, the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Utilities, the SE Guaranteed Buyer, members of the UWEA Legal Committee and Ukrainian Wind Energy Agency-K LLC for sharing their expert views on the current status, challenges and prospects for wind power in Ukraine.
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