State and Prospects of Development of Power Engineering of Ukraine

 

Shidlovsky A.K., Institute of Electrodynamics NAS of Ukraine

 

The report considers the state and the most important physical and technical problems of development of the fuel-power complex (FPC) of Ukraine. The theses being cited include only some main and the most important immediate problems of Ukraine FPC development. It is necessary that all of them will be implemented in complex and at the same time because lack of an efficient solution of one of the problems will block a successful implementation of other problems.

The present situation of electric power engineering can be defined, unfortunately, as a critical one. A crisis, which our economy goes through, caused difficulties in power engineering. The most morbid problems in power industry are economical problems, in particular, non-payments, distortion of a payment system. Power and power resources rates do not provide both monetary means for development and simple re-creation and even maintenance of power equipment. The rates structure itself does not correspond to the generally accepted one in the developed countries.

Electrical power system of Ukraine was formed as a component part of the power industry of the USSR and, therefore, it does not correspond to the requirements for a power system of an independent state. Even providing an absence of economic crisis phenomena the fuel-power complex (FPC) and the power equipment of the state on the whole require a solid reconstruction. Generating power structure requires an essential change. Because of lack both of fuel and required volumes of maneuvers and peak powers electric power system cannot provide an optimum loads curve, frequency, voltage levels requirements and, in the end, a parallel operation with power systems of Russia and Western Europe. Owing to these and some other reasons an electric energy export - an important source of earnings for reconstruction and modernization of the power industry and for the state budget - has practically been stopped.

As to a long-term power policy of Ukraine it must provide the following:

- a reliable provision of the population and economic structure with power carriers (and power) of a required quality;

- efficiency increase of fuel-power resources utilization and creation of conditions for the state economic structure transfer to a power saving course of development;

- provision of a steady FPC development in market relations forming conditions;

- provision of a power safety and a power independence of Ukraine

- reduction of FPC negative influence on environment.