Construction workers wear body armour to complete Ukrainian wind project

Highlighting once again the tremendous resilience of the Ukrainian people, workers with local energy company DTEK Group donned body armour to complete the construction of a 114MW wind farm in southern Ukraine.

The Tyligulska wind power plant is located in the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine, in a region which has seen heavy fighting from the beginning of Russia’s invasion in early 2022.

In late 2022, Ukraine began evacuations from the Mykolaiv and the neighbouring Kherson region amid fears that war damage to energy infrastructure had been too severe for newly liberated civilians to survive the winter.

Wearing body armour to continue the construction of the Tyligulska wind farm, DTEK employees are aiming to complete construction and commissioning in the northern Spring.

The wind farm under construction now is the first phase of a 500MW wind energy project, and is billed as an important step in achieving the country’s goal of deploying 30GW of installed renewable energy capacity by 2030.

“Despite all the challenges of this year of war, DTEK has constructed an additional 114MW of green power generation for Ukraine,” said Maxim Timchenko, CEO of DTEK.

“It has been a difficult task, but thanks to the high levels professionalism and bravery of the company’s employees, the new wind farm with 19 turbines will start operating this spring.

“Ukraine creates and Russia destroys. This is the fundamental difference in our world views.

“DTEK is building new energy facilities because we believe in the victory of Ukraine. And we are sending a signal to international partners that it is possible to invest in Ukraine today without waiting for the end of the war.”