Webcast
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian grid became the target of Russian missile attacks. In October 2022 Russia began a concerted bombing campaign of Ukraine electrical distribution infrastructure which resulted loss of electricity to large number of Ukrainian consumers and at least one major nation-wide blackouts on November 23, 2022. In spring 2024, Russia renewed its attack on the grid and in several massive barrages damaged upward of 80 percent of thermal and hydro power generating facilities. How has Ukraine been able to keep the lights in the face of Russian malice? What does the immediate and long-term future hold for the Ukrainian grid? How do developments in Ukraine affect European energy security and Europe’s grid? And what are the lessons for national electrical grids and their operators worldwide from the war in Ukraine?