In a meeting in Baku Azerbaijan‚ Maxim Timchenko the head of Ukraines biggest non-state energy firm DTEK showed simple but telling bar-charts that tell a up-and-down story of power generation in the country.
The charts display an on-going pattern: new power comes online then gets knocked out by missile hits — its like a see-saw effect of construction and destruction. DTEKs facilities (which include coal-powered thermal stations wind-farms and solar arrays) keep getting hit by targeted strikes
The companys rebuild-and-repair cycle shows how Ukrainian energy providers deal with infrastructure attacks: when one facility goes down they quickly work to restore power elsewhere. With winter coming up these attacks on power stations seem aimed at reducing electricity access across the country‚ but the energy sector keeps pushing back against these set-backs
Hereʼs what weʼre dealing with - constant rebuilding after each attack