Solar Power Plant Project
Russia is constantly attacking Ukraine in different regions, not only in the border areas where fighting is; not only the military, but also civilians. In previous years we had power outages because of attacks on power distribution facilities. We can remember being without electricity for 4 days straight which was the most difficult time for us in December, 2022. According to the news about 60% of power distribution facilities in Kyiv region were destroyed during that time. Slowly power facilities were restored to the degree that we had less time without electricity.
Since March, 22, 2024 Russia systematically attacks not only distribution, but power generation facilities. After the destruction of a key Kyiv region power plant the situation worsened. Russia has destroyed 9.2GW of Ukrainian power generation capacity. Peak consumption during the winter of 2023 was 18 GW, which means that half of Ukraine’s production capacity has been destroyed. There are already estimates that 20-hour blackouts will be imposed in winter.
UNICEF Education Cluster analysis for winter 2024 indicates that school schedules will be impacted from 2.4 to 6.4 hours daily and that a student will lose an estimated 31 to 81 learning hours per month, with those learning exclusively online being most affected (60 to 160 hours lost per month). That’s why we encourage students to study offline and live in our campus. But even with students studying offline, we need electricity for education, eating, heating in winter, and security.
Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Energy says that «Solar power plants at schools … should appear in every Ukrainian community». Ministry of education agrees with this idea but does not provide finances to build power plants. Considering the current situation, we are looking for donors to install solar panels to make our school more resilient. Before we thought of this as a good but distant development opportunity, but looks like now it is a necessity.
To secure education, it is planned to install a 40kW solar power plant on the administrative and educational building. Estimate project cost is $39 000 ($30 000 for material, $9 000 for mounting).
Unfortunately, not all buildings are suitable for installing solar panels. Therefore to secure education in other buildings as well as heating and basic needs, it is planned to install a 100kW solar power plant on the multifunctional complex. Estimate project cost is $111 000 ($93 600 for material, $17 400 for mounting).
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