President of the Professional Association of Environmentalists of Ukraine (PAEU) Lyudmila Tsyganok said that the war in Ukraine, which significantly affects the global world, will provoke a massive and powerful transition to green energy.
After all, the First and Second World Wars were associated with different types of energy resources, and as a result of them, the world changed its priorities in favor of a different type of fuel, reports ExPro.
"The First World War caused the transition from coal to oil, as a result of the Second World War nuclear power appeared, and the war in Ukraine should become a powerful impetus for the transition to other sources of energy – renewable ones," Tsyganok said.
She also noted that Europe recognizes that fossil fuels equal instability. And the desire to reduce dependence on it puts countries on the path to greater security, in particular against the background of significant climate changes.
"There is no doubt that the world will soon understand the key thing about RES – it is the energy of peace!", she emphasized.
Tsyganok also emphasized that russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has put the RES industry on the brink of bankruptcy. However, it is the decentralized and sustainable sources of renewable energy that can not only provide each country with a resource, but also provide the absence of grounds for blackmail and terror. After all, despite the impact on climate change, fossil fuels themselves have become an instrument of war and murder.
According to her, it is renewable energy that should become a priority in the post-war reconstruction of the Ukrainian energy sector. However, Ukraine currently does not create conditions for the development of the green sector in the conditions of war, so it is quite difficult to imagine an influx of investments in RES.
She also emphasized the need to increase the energy efficiency of centralized heating systems and energy saving in buildings through the use of the latest technologies and developments. For example, the EU aims to increase the use of individual heat pumps and other measures to integrate geothermal and solar thermal energy into heating systems.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that experts from the Center for Economic Recovery stated that in Ukraine, investors in the wind energy sector can complete the construction of at least 300 MW of capacity, out of the 600 MW that were planned for launch in 2022. This will help ensure own needs in and export green energy in the EU.
As EcoPolitic reported earlier, in Ukraine due to the full-scale invasion of Russia 90% of wind capacities have been decommissioned and 30% of solar power plants.
