United States Chargé d'Affaires in Ukraine Kristina Kvien congratulated DTEK on the launch of Ukraine’s first industrial energy storage system (ESS), which will ensure the flexibility of the energy system, energy security of Ukraine and will allow the integration of renewables into the country's energy balance. Ilona Shtrom, Senior commercial officer U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, read the corresponding address on behalf of Kristina Kvien during the First Energy Storage Day.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, Honeywell, DTEK representatives and Government of Ukraine leaders, I regret I could not be with you today to celebrate this important occasion. On behalf of the U.S. Embassy, I send you best wishes as you mark this important milestone.
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to see Honeywell, a Fortune 100 technology company, continue to expand its work in Ukraine. Honeywell’s Battery Energy Storage System and the Experion Energy Control System will bring tangible benefits to Ukraine and its people.
We welcome Honeywell’s and DTEK’s cooperation in this sector. Their work on this market-oriented battery storage system solution will provide flexibility to the power grid with increasing interruptible renewable power generation, a system that will help maintain Ukraine's energy security, enable the integration of renewables into the energy mix, and decrease fossil fuel power generation.
This project is another example of the excellent cooperation we have seen between U.S. and Ukrainian companies across many different sectors. The United States is extremely proud of the U.S.-Ukraine commercial relationship, which saw a doubling of goods trade and U.S to Ukraine exports between 2015-2019.
This commercial relationship is built upon Ukrainian interest in benefiting from U.S. firms, which provide their customers with access to the most transparent business practices and the best know-how, technology and service in the world.
Together, this relationship will help fuel Ukraine’s economic growth, and bring Ukraine closer to its Euro-Atlantic future. We know that is just the beginning of deeper and closer commercial ties.
I want to congratulate all of you on your commitment to further investing in Ukraine, which translates directly to value for both the United States’ and Ukrainian economies.”
The 1 MW/2.25 MWh energy storage system (ESS) is installed in Energodar at Zaporizhzhya Power Plant, and is designed to the accumulate, store and feed-in the electricity to the grid, as well as maintain the functioning of Ukraine’s power system. With this pilot project DTEK intends to search for the optimal models of energy storage systems operation in various segments of the country's energy market.
“This project became possible thanks to the international partnership and cooperation of DTEK with the leading global companies involved in the production of energy storage systems – Honeywell and SunGrid. The first industrial energy storage system will give a start for bringing Ukraine’s energy sector to a new technological level and will bring closer the synchronization of our country with the European energy system ENTSO-E,” said Maxim Timchenko, DTEK CEO.
