Nearly two-thirds of Ukraine's dispatchable generation capacity has been damaged
DTEK Chief Sustainability Officer Jeff Oatham has outlined lessons from Ukraine's energy system resilience during wartime in an article for the World Economic Forum. According to him, since russia's full-scale invasion, the country's grid has faced severe destruction, numerous missile strikes, and drone attacks. This is reported by the portal PromPolitInform, citing information from DTEK, based on data from World Economic Forum.
Between November 2025 and March 2026 alone, the energy grid withstood over 700 missiles and nearly 19,000 drones. Faced with these ongoing challenges, global energy planners must rethink traditional approaches to infrastructure security.
Decentralisation and recovery speed
Spreading capacity across smaller, distributed assets limits the damage that a single strike can inflict. Furthermore, the speed of recovery holds a value that conventional planning often fails to account for. DTEK and Fluence successfully built 200 MW of battery storage within a span of six months.
Security and decarbonisation convergence
The green transition and physical security are increasingly converging into a single architecture. Renewables and storage facilities are now vital parts of the security framework rather than just climate tools. Ukraine’s regional resilience plans are currently estimated at €5.3 billion.
Investable resilience for the future
Local budgets alone cannot cover the extensive costs required to rebuild and protect the infrastructure. Governments and investors need better mechanisms to value resilience before new assets are constructed. DTEK remains the largest private investor in Ukraine’s energy sector, employing 55,000 people.
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