Washington decided to assist Ukraine in restoring the country's energy system

The United States will assist Ukraine in restoring the energy system of the country, which suffered as a result of massive missile strikes by Russian troops. The decision on this has already been made, the head of the US State Department, Anthony Blinken, who arrived in Bucharest at a meeting of the energy coordinating group, will officially announce the allocation of assistance.

According to Reuters, Blinken will announce both the very fact of helping Kyiv to restore the energy infrastructure, as well as what equipment the Americans managed to assemble, and when it will arrive in Ukraine. In addition, the United States will put pressure on other countries, forcing them to invest in the restoration of objects destroyed by Russian missiles.

According to the agency, the main problem is not how to deliver the equipment to the territory of Ukraine and mount it, but where to find everything necessary for restoration. In addition, no one excludes that Russian missiles will again hit the restored system and smash everything that they were able to assemble with such difficulty in the West. Hence the second question - how to protect all this in the absence of normal air defense in Ukraine. Kyiv is already demanding the supply of air defense systems and transformers.

Earlier it was reported that Lithuania was actively involved in the restoration of the energy system of Ukraine, having already sent several trucks with transformers to Kyiv and promising to supply all the equipment necessary for restoration in the future.

The foreign ministers of Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Estonia arrived in Kyiv the day before, and at a meeting with Zelensky they promised to help restore Ukraine's energy infrastructure "destroyed by Russian missiles".

Comments

[Egeny]

"the problem is not how to deliver the equipment to the territory of Ukraine and mount it, but where to find everything necessary for restoration" ...
seek, Blinkin, who seeks will find.
And we will add ... hot.)

[Silver99]

Replace the entire power system with components of the USSR? Fantasists from Washington again showed carrots to Ukraine. This means that it must be destroyed in such a way that it will not be subject to restoration.

[Machito]

Blinkin, swollen in Bucharest, wants to resurrect the dead energy system of Ukraine? No, he commemorates the dead.

[Proxima]

Restore the power system - they've gone crazy there. How do they imagine it? This is not for you to supply armored personnel carriers. What they can do is to supply diesel power plants (DPP) for Ukrainians to charge phones and partial restoration of the Internet in order to continue to zombify the population.

[brondulyak]

We already wrote about the Lithuanian "help" with transformers and it turned out that these transformers are as powerful as those in our garden partnership ..!

[SergeyB]

Quote from Egeni

"the problem is not how to deliver the equipment to the territory of Ukraine and mount it, but where to find everything necessary for restoration" ...
seek, Blinkin, who seeks will find.

Finally. I was waiting for this.
When large-scale attacks began, questions were raised:
What is the point of hitting substations, because they can be quickly restored. It is necessary to hit the power plants, this will disable the power system for years.
Indeed, having spent several dozen large rockets, we could completely destroy the generator rooms of all large power plants in Ukraine. And to deprive Ukraine of almost the entire generation. Only small power plants would remain here and there, which could supply only small focal areas. However, we could "get" the remaining power plants later.
So why do we keep wasting missiles to temporarily disable the power grid instead of actually destroying it entirely?

The answer is that the damage from the destruction of the power grid is a one-time effect. Yes, and mostly ordinary residents of Ukraine will suffer from this. The countries that sponsor Ukraine are completely violet, whether there is electricity in Ukraine or not.
If, however, strikes at substations, then the damage is certainly lower. But this damage can be repeated and repeated (which happens).
And the accumulated damage in this case can be hundreds and thousands of times greater than the one-time destruction of the entire energy system of Ukraine.
Just money:
A conditional Geranka flies (20-30 thousand dollars) and falls on a 330 kV substation. And there the cost of the transformer (he went crazy) starts from several million dollars. And there are several of these transformers!
Of course there is air defense. But the cost of air defense missiles starts at $100.
Everything is beautiful for us.
We spend a product for 20-30 thousand dollars. Our adversary is forced to spend a $100 item, often several of those items. If the enemy messes up (which happens very often), then the enemy loses the product for millions of dollars. Plus, a significant part of the economy is turned off (additional damage). Plus massively due to power surges, electrical engineering fails.
And most importantly. NATO countries are now forced to pay for all this. Our main opponents, who are waging war with us through the hands of Ukraine.
And now our main opponents have actually taken Ukraine for direct financing. Losses of Ukraine=losses of NATO countries.
We now have the ability to hurt (financially) our opponents a lot. And we can do it for a very long time.

[evgen1221]

From here, the output-transformers will be on paper, and air defense will arrive, and there will be Ukrainians with missiles, but then they will sit without light. VPC approves.

[private person]

Hence the output-transformers will be on paper

Yes, even if they really bring transformers. But after all, they still need to be installed, adjusted, and you should not forget about the distribution devices themselves.

[Andy_nsk]

Hence the output-transformers will be on paper

Well, I think transformers will also be in hardware, the question is WHEN? I do not think that warehouses overseas are littered with transformers made according to Soviet standards and specifications. Let's start with the fact that their trances are made at 60 Hz and the normal range of voltages is different from ours (I'm not talking about domestic voltage, but about the voltages of high-voltage power lines). Therefore, it is necessary to launch production to meet the needs of the outskirts. Before the launch, most likely, finalize projects for a frequency of 50 Hz and the required voltages (not so hot, what a problem, but time is needed), coordinate these projects, resolve financing issues, purchase the required materials (transformer steel, faint wires or tires, insulation, etc. . - which in itself launches long supply chains, modern production is very integrated with a large number of suppliers and does not involve deposits of "illiquid assets", as in the USSR), wait for the materials and components to arrive at the warehouses and you can start work, rolling up your sleeves! I think that the dispatch of the first transformers will be closer to spring, so I wish our non-brothers to survive the winter without electricity, without a normally working transport, without heating and running water. What were you shouting on the Maidans? "Moskalyak to Gilyak ?!" - you need to answer for the market!

[evgen1221]

Well, the Kukuevites can immediately start rebuilding the simtema in a European way, there is no need for totalitarian technologies. However, when it can fly in on a replaced trance, no one will repair them en masse, it’s not enough for the needs of the factories, and the rest on the farm with a torch are fine.

[Andy_nsk]

Well, the Kukuevskys can immediately start rebuilding the simtema in a European way,

Hemorrhoids is when part of the system is in one standard, in the second in another.
In LPG networks of general purpose AC 50 Hz, according to GOST 721-77, the following nominal phase-to-phase voltages must be used: 380 V; (6), 10, 20, 35, 110, 220, 330, 500, 750 and 1150 kV.
The main backbone AC lines in the countries of Western Europe that are members of the UCPTE are lines with a voltage of 380-420 kV. 230 kV lines and 110-150 kV lines perform the functions of distribution networks.
It is impossible to connect transformers with different rated voltages (for example, 330 and 380 kV) to the network. I think that it is much easier to arrange the production of transformers for the existing system. A complete redesign of the entire energy system is a task for decades with the cost of many billions of their currency.

[private person]

Well, I think transformers will also be in hardware, the question is WHEN?

They will be even soon, but how soon can they be installed and launched? At our substation, two transformers were changed for half a year, and here, in addition to transformers, it is necessary to restore the outdoor switchgear and indoor switchgear, and not in a single copy. And it takes time and specialists, but there is neither one nor the other.

[Kriso Sborshik]

transformers for transformer substations are piece goods and are mainly made to order, that is, it is simply impossible to go to the store and buy them. The production of one transformer can take from several weeks to several months. And just one Geranka will turn it back into a mountain of flowers.

[Shark Lover]

They are like a queue to a brothel, how to help you, but they themselves fry with terrible force, saying, I’ll help you right now, be patient a little, baring your yellow teeth))))

[Uprun]

As far as I know, the striped standard has a different voltage to the sockets, hence it is doubtful that their electrical equipment can be adapted on the outskirts, but the EU - yes, they will strain it to the fullest ...., this is their clamp, so let them pull, of course, for free for the outskirts, until they themselves are left without pants, and everything goes towards this. Today armaments, transformers, tomorrow gas and bread.... yes, yes - bread, since it was safely removed from the outskirts by interested parties. There is a cold sea, famine, energy sea, etc. ahead. In short, not a tenant.

[solar]

As far as I know, the striped standard has a different voltage to the sockets

no one shoots at those transformers that supply current to a home outlet, there are a lot of them.

[Everevil]

Money to nowhere. Or rather: in the pockets of those who will "provide assistance." Something, of course, will also fall to Ukraine, but the main part will be cut down on the spot. In addition, according to the emerging trend, this is another "black hole" - they will restore, ours will be destroyed again. And so it is possible ad infinitum.

[rotmistr60]

The United States will assist Ukraine in restoring the country's energy system

The picture is clearly drawn: trains with transformers and other electrical equipment on a locomotive traction (there are also problems with solarium) puff to Ukraine, and between the platforms with cargo there are wagons for American and European engineers ready to restore the power supply to the whole country with their own hands. Ahead on the locomotive are Lithuanians with a transformer under their arm. Well, they will collect in Europe what is in warehouses and fits the standard, they will help to partially restore the supply of electricity, and then? A few more days of strikes and all the help is smoke in the sky. It was smooth on paper, but they forgot about the ravines.

[Vladimir 290]

with steam locomotives, too, not everything is so simple (as the daughters of Crimean officers say). For them, water and coal are needed at the stations, but I generally keep quiet about specialists and worn-out materiel. I thought you could start the horse-drawn carriages, as in the 19th century, but here again there are problems.

[Lech from Android.]

The West will pay dearly for the wishes of the Ukronazi regime... the Anglo-Saxons still do not understand what a quagmire they have fallen into.

[Bodipancher]

Ukraine is increasingly turning into a weight around the neck of the West. We are waiting for a new blow, just a week has passed.

[Boycott]

The main thing here is:

The US will put pressure on other countries, forcing them to invest

The de-industrialization of Europe continues, because it is not good to compete with the owner.

[Horon]

The United States will assist Ukraine in restoring the country's energy system

But nothing that the standards are different? In the United States, 60 Hz network frequency is used on dill 50. The transformer will obviously not like this.

[solar]

In the States, transformers are made not only for themselves, but also in large quantities for foreign countries.

[Horon]

The difference in standards does not mean that they cannot do this, it means that they will have to start it from scratch, and this is very expensive and not soon.

[Kriso Sborshik]

50 and 60 hertz for a transformer are monopenisual, di no one will carry transformers from the USA

[Horon]

Quote from Kriso Sborshik

50 and 60 hertz for a transformer are monopenisual, di no one will carry transformers from the USA

Yes, but the efficiency is different.

[3x3zsave]

I have only one question for Blinken. How is he going to adapt 220 volts to 120? Apparently, Europe will be milked again ...

[solar]

In the States, the voltage in the household network is 220 V (110 + 110)

[Kriso Sborshik]

Any voltage can be wound. Another question is what will be the losses

[ARIONkrsk]

In addition, the United States will put pressure on other countries, forcing them to invest in the restoration of objects destroyed by Russian missiles.

How beautifully said, get ready to fork out there again. I hope after the repair we will again scrap Western aid.

[APASUS]

This is news. Where in the USA can you find such equipment, and even more interesting, so who will install it on the territory of Ukraine?

[tihonmarine]

Quote: APASUS

This is news. Where in the USA can you find such equipment, and even more interesting, so who will install it on the territory of Ukraine?

In Europe and the CIS, the standard is 220-240 volts 50 hertz, in North American countries and in the USA - 110-120 volts 60 Hz.
If the original alternator produces 120 volts, running it at 50 Hz instead of 60 Hz will only produce 100 volts. By increasing the windings by 20%, you will increase the voltage by 100 x 1,2 = 120 volts, and vice versa.

[flicker]

Washington decided to assist Ukraine in restoring the country's energy system

The drowning man grabs the straw.

[Kuroneko]

Quote from uprun

As far as I know, the striped standard has a different voltage to the sockets, hence it is doubtful that their electrical equipment can be adapted on the outskirts, but the EU - yes, they will strain it to the fullest ...., this is their clamp, so let them pull, of course, for free for the outskirts, until they themselves are left without pants, and everything goes towards this. Today armaments, transformers, tomorrow gas and bread.... yes, yes - bread, since it was safely removed from the outskirts by interested parties. There is a cold sea, famine, energy sea, etc. ahead. In short, not a tenant.

To clarify: 750kV transformers are the Soviet standard. In the West, only 220 kV and a maximum of 400 kV are used (in Europe, the countries are small, energy losses on the lines are small). So how are they going to replace the Soviet 750kV mastodons - I stock up on popcorn in advance.
With exactly the same success, they can try to reflash the wide Soviet rail standard of the railroads for decoration on their own narrow gauge.

[Boniface]

Such touching concern! Maybe adopt Nazis?

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Boniface

Such touching concern! Maybe adopt Nazis?

Why adopt them, they are all children of the same mother.

[Bingo]

The old thing - they got into a crisis because of them, now the tripods are pretending to be "saviors". Just like in Iraq, I remember Trump still managed to shame Iraq, saying how it is - Iraq has no gratitude to the United States - they decided to restore the country's energy system with the help of Siemens. But what about the USA?! After all, the United States has gouged it in Iraq! So break the signed contract with the Germans and quickly pay General Electric! And what do you want - paid

[Sandro1977]

Restore, then insure, after the next "Calibration" get insurance ... Ready business plan)

[tihonmarine]

The Foreign Ministers of Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Estonia arrived in Kyiv the day before

Well, now Ukraine can live in peace, if these took "for help", then in a week the whole of Ukraine will sparkle with candles and kerosene lamps.

[nellyjuri]

Did Lithuania send several trucks with transformers? Scraped in the bottom of the barrel. And if you scrape, and create from it, then you get some kind of mutant. From a children's story.

And if specifically, then I can see how the Ukrainians will fly a one-ton transformer to the place of a two-hundred-ton transformer that used to be.

[tralflot1832]

Well done Lesya, you use my scheme for sawing. You cheerfully report after the bulge of the energy object that you restored it without restoring it. You wait for the bulge, but it will come. the border is 500 meters, you cover it with a tarpaulin from prying eyes. Then you act according to the first scheme. Only you have another bonus, your "destroyed" transformer. And it rushed along a new one. Don’t worry about Blinkin, he has access to the US budget. You only need seven transformers so that every day there are exchange transactions across the border. Light is not the main thing in Ukraine, the main thing is pockets.

[Sebastian Aristarkhovich Pereira]

Work brothers! Keep going!



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[cat hippopotamus]

Bomb everything to hell, and then bomb again after recovery. Well, the Tribaltic Extinctions are still okay, they will scrape the bottom of the barrel and find something from Soviet reserves. But the USA has 110 volts in the network and a 60 hertz network. Their parts won't fit.