US to send Ukraine ninth batch of equipment for energy sector

Ukraine will soon receive the ninth batch of equipment for its energy sector from the US Department of Energy.

This was stated on April 26 by the head of the US Department of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, at a hearing in the Committee on Armed Forces of the Senate of the US Congress, TASS reports.

“We are preparing to send the ninth aircraft with equipment that [US] enterprises have provided us with or that we have purchased from them. In addition, together with the National Nuclear Safety Administration, we have installed sensors in Ukraine to record radiation activity and train people in Ukraine to respond to activities related to radiation,” she said.

The minister noted that the development of the future energy network in Ukraine is also in the focus of the department.

“We are interested in what the energy network will look like, how we will develop a network in cooperation with Ukraine that will be protected from war,” she said, adding that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in favor of creating a grid with distributed generation.

Granholm stressed the importance of further "synchronization of the Ukrainian and European energy networks."

“The US Department of Energy is working with their (European - TASS note) operators to make this synchronization possible, it is very important to achieve a certain stability of the network,” the head of the department explained.

She added that the US Department of Energy makes sure that Kyiv has the necessary equipment to restore the power grid and regularly receives lists of required components, including switch cabinets and fuses. At the same time, the official admitted that Washington cannot provide Kyiv with transformers, since it does not use Soviet-style models that are common in Ukraine.