Last week, Peter Styles, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at the Energy Company of Ukraine (ECU), spoke at the 30th Athens Electricity Forum, emphasizing Ukraine’s strategic shift away from the paradigm of centralized power generation towards an emerging paradigm of distributed generation.
In his address, Peter Styles outlined how Ukraine’s traditional, centralized power system has become increasingly vulnerable due to frequent attacks and infrastructure failures. In response, the country is moving decisively toward a new model based on distributed generation and aggregation. This means energy is no longer produced only at large power plants, but is now generated by a growing network of smaller, independent facilities – cogeneration, solar, wind, bioenergy, and gas-fired stations – located closer to consumers.
Decentralization brings greater resilience, reduces the risk of outages, and enhances energy security. But the real shift comes from aggregation: combining many small producers into “virtual power plants” can optimize production and consumption, reduce system losses, and enable even the smallest players to participate in the market as a single, powerful entity.
ECU has all the skills and resources to lead and accelerate the transformation. The company developed a suite of market tools for a state aggregated group, – that empower distributed generators, manage risks, and open access to both domestic and European energy markets.
The expected outcome is a more flexible, reliable, and economically efficient energy system – one that not only strengthens Ukraine’s energy independence, but also offers valuable lessons for countries everywhere seeking to build a resilient and future-ready power sector.
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