From project to megawatt: engineering of new energy in Ukraine

Key questions for discussion

• What is the biggest obstacle to new energy projects today: technical network limitations, connection rules, equipment shortages, approvals or errors at the design stage?
• How should the approach to technical conditions change so that new generation and storage facilities appear in the system faster, and do not remain only in project documentation?
• Why can the network look overloaded on paper, although in fact there is a capacity deficit in the system? How to correctly assess the real profiles of generation, consumption and BESS operation from an engineering perspective?
• What typical mistakes are made at the stage of the general plan, selection of the connection point, placement of equipment, security zones, access roads and engineering networks?
• What should be taken into account when designing energy facilities in conditions of military risks: redundancy, modularity, equipment protection, logistics, maintainability, speed of node replacement?
• How to shorten the path from technical concept to commissioning of the facility without losing quality, safety and compliance with regulations?

Key questions for discussion

• Which technologies today provide the greatest practical effect for energy sustainability: BESS, cogeneration, gas generation, solar power, wind power, heat pumps or hybrid solutions?
• How to correctly determine what a specific facility needs: backup power, constant generation, balancing, reduction of consumption peaks, heat, savings or the ability to work on the market?
• Where is BESS most valuable: in industry, in renewables, in balancing, in local power centers, in critical infrastructure or in networks?
• What are the most common mistakes when choosing power, capacity, inverters, EMS, protection systems, fire safety and BESS operating modes?
• Cogeneration for cities and industry: how to correctly calculate the electrical and thermal load so that the project works economically, and not just looks nice in the presentation?
• What should be the service and operational model for the new distributed generation: spare parts, repair, monitoring, SCADA, cybersecurity, personnel and responsibility for equipment availability?
• How to combine the technical solution with the market model: balancing market, self-consumption, PPA, aggregation, surplus sales, reservation?
• What needs to change in the approaches of engineers, customers and management so that technical solutions can be converted into real megawatts faster?