Two Ukrainian hospitals recently hosted inauguration ceremonies for hybrid solar and storage systems installed through an initiative led by the RePower Ukraine Charitable Foundation.
Hospitals in the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Brovary are now benefiting from solar energy plus storage systems, installed via an initiative led by the RePower Ukraine charity foundation.
The array at the Brovary Multidisciplinary Clinical Hospital, located in the Kiev region, was inaugurated on July 25. It consists of a 24 kW solar power plant with a 28.8 kWh backup system and was designed and built using components manufactured by the German company SMA.
The hospital, which serves more than 187,000 residents, has 24 departments and centers and the solar power plant is specially designed to back up the power supply to the hospital’s intensive care unit. The Kyiv Regional Military Administration and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine had requested the installation of a system at the facility.
The second system is a 30 kW solar power plant, with a 43 kWh backup system, located in Kharkov Children’s Hospital, northeastern Ukraine. The installation, which was inaugurated on July 19, has 54 solar panels and ensures an uninterrupted power supply for the hospital.
“Imagine a child on a ventilator, while the family watches anxiously. Now imagine if the power goes out,” said Vladlena Salnikova, the hospital’s medical director. “With this system, that fear disappears. We don’t just save on bills; we save lives and provide peace of mind.”
RePower Ukraine says the recent inaugurations followed an installation at a hospital in Irpin, west of Kiev, that was equipped with solar panels and a backup power system, as well as another solar project in Kharkiv.
“We are creating a model to support energy supply for hospitals to be scaled up to other medical facilities across Ukraine, with the participation of local and central authorities,” a statement from the foundation said.
It added that the projects were made possible by contributions from European companies including BSW, SolarPower Europe and SMA Solar Technology. A spokesperson for RePower Ukraine said this pv magazine the installations are “compelling examples of how Europe is supporting Ukraine in implementing renewable energy initiatives and overcoming energy challenges posed by the ongoing war.”
In July, it was announced that Ukraine had received a total of 5,876 solar panels under the Ray of Hope project, which would be supplied to healthcare institutions in the Zhytomyr, Volyn, Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv and Odessa regions.
A United Nations Development Program study in Ukraine published earlier this year looked at the feasibility of implementing 37 solar energy projects in hospitals and water supply facilities across the country. It discovered the potential to generate approximately 16 million kWh of clean energy if fully implemented, ensuring uninterrupted power supply.
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