“We’re lucky, it’ll pass”: were the authorities preparing for strikes on the energy sector?

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After our three speeches with an appeal to the Prime Minister present in the hall, Yulia Svirydenko did come to the podium to talk about the energy situation. Forgive me, but her speech reminded me of a clip from Telegram channels – if there is no shelling, it will be better, we heat large buildings with generators, etc.

Honestly, I am still shocked by the lack of any, even tactical, vision and ability to live one day at a time in the current government…

During two hearings with the Minister of Energy, who previously served as Prime Minister, I never heard:

– And what about the country with repair kits, when the Russians systematically break transformers? We turned to partners, and which ones, when there is a banal lack of parts? I will not say anything about the systematic purchase of backup transformers…

– How many batteries did we systematically import, understanding that the Russians would disrupt our ability to deliver from the nuclear power plant to Kyiv and the cities of the East? What about storage batteries? Did only private households do this?

– How do we encourage businesses to invest in cogeneration plants? What incentives do we offer them for creating additional generation?

– How do we stimulate wind generation that can operate in the winter to replace the sun? How many windmills have been delivered and installed?

I’m not talking about gas, which was under-purchased, generators, which are missing tens of thousands, fuel, for which communities don’t have the funds, etc.

Yes, the Ukrainian energy sector is being destroyed by Russian attacks. But this is not the first year of war, we had no right not to prepare for four years.

Yes, we will now cough up energy monopolies and the lack of a policy to stimulate alternative energy.

But we had to take into account the obvious reality of war and immediately diversify the generation. Stimulate and import. Think…

I spoke about this publicly to Galushchenko in the council and constantly wrote… but Galushchenko was clearly busy with the mega-scheme to purchase reactors.

We were called “alarmists,” and do you know what our survival strategy was? “We’re lucky, it’ll pass.” It didn’t.

We won’t get out of this. Until we start thinking professionally and forming professional answers. They exist. We just need to stop talking about “indestructibility” and other beautiful words and form systemic solutions.

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