A 30-kilowatt solar power plant with batteries and an energy storage system has been installed at the borehole in Bucha’s Sklozavod district. The stored energy should be enough to keep the borehole running during power cuts while reducing the community’s electricity costs.
Bucha mayor Anatolii Fedoruk announced this.
“Even in rainy weather, like today, the panels keep generating,” the mayor said, showing the station on a fully overcast day.
Photo: Anatolii FedorukWho paid
The project was funded by the community’s Dutch partners with the support of the Ukrainian-Dutch charity fund Life Line Ukraine.
What else is being prepared for winter
The city is reinforcing other critical facilities at the same time. For the sewage pumping station in Bucha it received two 100-kilowatt inverters and twenty battery units from Helvetas Ukraine and the NGO DESPRO — the equipment is already being installed.
For water supply this matters: during long blackouts a borehole without backup power stops, and with it the water in the taps of an entire district. An autonomous source removes the dependence on outage schedules and on how quickly a generator can be delivered.
As a reminder, the community faces other tests this week too: in the Bucha district attacks lasted almost all of Monday, and medical facilities now work under new air-alert rules.
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