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On November 12, 2024, teachers and students of the Department of Power Supply attended a webinar on the topic "Energy Management in Wartime Conditions: Opportunities and Prospects for Ukraine's Industry." The event was organized by the European-Ukrainian Energy Agency (EUEA) with the support of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO Ukraine) project "Implementation of the Energy Management Systems Standard in Ukraine’s Industry."

Another significant step toward the university's energy independence has been achieved — an autonomous power supply system has been installed on the premises of the H. I. Denysenko Scientific and Technical Library. This system ensures uninterrupted operation during emergency and stabilization power outages. A solar power station with an energy storage system has been installed on the library building’s roof.

On November 6, 2024, lecturers from the Department of Power Supply conducted a webinar for educators in the professional fields of "Metalworking Industry" and "Electrical Engineering Industry" on the topic: "Formation and Development of Energy-Efficient and Energy-Saving Competencies in Skilled Workers for Effective Execution of Repair and Construction Work."

The webinar aimed to enhance the qualifications of vocational education instructors in developing educational content related to the competencies of "Energy Efficiency," "Energy Saving," and "Energy Management."

We are preparing for a large-scale event dedicated to energy efficiency, renewable energy sources and sustainable development! Very soon you will be able to dive into the world of innovative solutions that change our future.

Date: December 9-13, 2024

Format: live (Kyiv) and online

Waiting for you:

• Press briefing dedicated to the start of the project
• Conference "Energy of partnership: investments, innovations in the field of energy efficiency for communities"
• Dialogue platform "Housing reform: the path to an energy-efficient future of Ukraine"
• Conference "Scientific approach: new standards of comfort and efficiency"
• Workshop "Artificial intelligence in energy efficiency for communities"

From September 30 to October 4, 2024, department lecturers conducted a training session for the engineering and technical staff of Khmelnytskyi NPP, South Ukraine NPP, Rivne NPP, and representatives from the Energoatom headquarters on the topic "Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Conducting Process Energy Audits".

This training marked an important step in enhancing the qualifications of professionals responsible for the energy efficiency and reliable operation of critical infrastructure at nuclear power plants.

Congratulations to the master's students of the department, Yelyzaveta Tupotina and Yuliia Onyshchenko, who received second-degree Laureate diplomas at the 5th All-Ukrainian Competition for Students and Young Scientists with International Participation, titled “Youth Intelligence: Sustainable Resource Management and Innovative Energy-Efficient Technologies.”

On October 17, 2024, the final scientific conference of the Competition took place, where the scientific achievements of our winners were discussed. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the organizers, partners, and sponsors for such a wonderful scientific event!

Special thanks go to the master's students for their enthusiasm in participating in this Competition and to their supervisor, Olena Borychenko.

From September 16 to 19, 2024, a series of pilot trainings titled "Process Energy Audit" commenced as part of the TEAD Project (Training for Energy Auditors and Designers).

The training program is fully aligned with the professional standard "Process Energy Auditor" and was developed by leading European energy auditors, as well as Ukrainian energy auditors who directly contributed to the development of the professional standard. Among them are Power Supply Department lecturers Anatoliy Chernyavskiy, Olena Borychenko, and Yuriy Veremiychuk, who are also part of the training team for this course.

From 23 to 26 September 2024, the Ukrainian delegation from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute took part in the Advanced Research Workshop «Energy infrastructure resilience in response to war and other hazards» within the framework of the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, which took place at the Ignacy Łukasiewicz Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland. The main goal of the Workshop is to unite international efforts to develop effective approaches to protecting and restoring energy infrastructure, especially in emergency situations caused by war, terrorist attacks, natural disasters or cyber threats. The Ukrainian delegation consisted of scientists from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (Oksana Vovk, Natalia Zuievska, Liubov Shaidetska, Olena Borychenko, Anatolii Cherniavskyi, Olena Yarmoliuk, Vitalii Opryshko, Viktor Gurieiev, Olga Demydenko), NTU Dnipro Polytechnic (Yurii Papaika), and representatives of the State Labour Service of Ukraine.

On March 15, 2024, the general director of Schneider Electric Ukraine, Mykhailo Bubnov, held an open meeting and talked with students of KPI on topics related not only to specialization and industry, but also to issues of concern to young people in general:
• How can a student start his professional career?
• Can a senior student work in our company?
• What salary can a beginner expect?
• What skills and what approach will help to achieve success?

According to Mykhailo, the main factor of a successful start is interest in work. If there is interest, then there will be development, professional and financial growth. Every year, 10 students from various educational institutions and specialties undergo internships at Schneider Electric Ukraine. Such cooperation is mutually beneficial, as the students get practical knowledge, and we get a fresh perspective and ideas.

Students of our department at both the bachelor's and master's level, including under the educational and scientific program "Energy management, power supply and engineering of electrotechnical complexes" took part in this meeting.

We would like to note the feedback from the participant "It is very nice that in such difficult times for our country, such companies as Schneider Eclectic help our students become qualified specialists in their field. At the meeting with the general director Mykhailo Bubnov, a lot was discussed: cooperation with students and the department, the realized future after our Victory, as well as technical issues related to green energy, which are more relevant than ever. "I hope that this is not the last, but the first meeting for a new step in Ukrainian energy. Sincerely, Polina Pugach", a student of the OH-11 group.

DiXi Group invites students to a unique educational workshop:

- how the electricity market functions in Ukraine;

- the role of state authorities in the energy sector;

- which data are available and which are "closed" due to the war;

- how to get data from managers that are not published;

- the difference between machine-readable and non-machine-readable data;

- life hacks for working with data in Excel

Date: February 21, 2024

Time: 16:00 Workshop information and registration https://dixigroup.org/announcement/21-lyutogo-energy-map-workshop-dlya-studentiv/

An open lecture will be held on January 4, 2024 at 10:25 a.m.:

"The UN Global Compact in Ukraine: promoting sustainable development and responsible business".

Lecturer: Vitalii OPRYSHKO, Ph.D., Head of the Ukrainian Energy Initiative of the UN General Assembly in Ukraine.

 
 The lecture will be held online

Participation in the lecture via the link:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/5269826625?pwd=T21UeTRsL3h0OHI1Zmx5bG4rZVdBQT09

Conference ID: 526 982 6625

Access code: 0NUvBv

As part of the Energy Efficiency Week 2023, on December 13, the Forum of Energy Managers was held, which was attended by the winners of the "Energy Management and Energy-Efficient Technologies" educational program.
Applicants had the opportunity to hear a discussion of the current state of implementation of energy management and energy monitoring at the level of communities and government organizations, as well as consider the experience of implementing energy management and energy monitoring on the example of three communities and the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

The applicants managed to join a professional platform where energy managers exchanged information, experience and best practices in the field of energy management.
At the forum, there was an interesting survey "Energy management in communities: what hinders and what is missing?" and 45% of respondents noted that there is a lack of specialists. Therefore, we actively continue to train the professional community of future energy managers together with SE IEE - Department of Power Supply.

On December 8, 2023, students of the 3rd and 4th years of the SE IEE studying under the SPP "Energy Management and Energy Efficient Technologies" visited the laboratory of the Department of Building Physics and Energy Efficiency of the State Enterprise "Research Institute of Building Structures", with which KPI has a cooperation agreement. SE NDIBK not only has modern equipment for researching the properties of building materials and structures, but also takes a leading role in Ukraine in creating national standards, implementing energy efficiency programs in the building stock, and applying energy efficient technologies in construction. In addition, SE NDIBK develops typical projects of thermal modernization of mass-produced buildings in Ukraine, as well as executed unique projects for the restoration of buildings damaged as a result of the military aggression of the Russian Federation.
The class on the topic "Investigation of thermophysical and acoustic properties of enclosing structures" for students of groups ОН-01 and ОНп11 was held as part of the study of the discipline "Energy efficiency and energy certification of buildings". Such classes have been held for energy management students on a regular basis for many years in a row. Acting Head of the Department of Building Physics and Energy Efficiency Andrii Mykhailovych Postolenko and junior researcher of the department Dmytro Vyacheslavovich Bida conducted the classes.
A. M. Postolenko introduced modern technologies in construction and research methods of building and thermal insulation materials. The specialist explained how for standard structural elements (a wall with a balcony block) studies of resistance to climatic influences and deformations are carried out, resistance to wind load is determined and other thermal characteristics are determined. He showed laboratory stands where such characteristics of materials as heat transfer resistance, frost resistance, steam, water, air permeability, etc. are determined. The students were particularly interested in a special chamber where efficient operation is predicted: the structure or material is exposed to radiation as an imitation of solar insolation, humidification as an imitation of rain, freezing to -30°C and heating to +60°C as an imitation of the external environment for 60 cycles.
D.V. Bida talked about special cameras for studying the acoustic properties of structures and assessing the influence of external and internal noise sources. The students got acquainted with the means of soundproofing, sound absorption, and also visited an anechoic chamber, where there is practically no sound reflection.
Such classes improve the interest of students, the perception of the material and the level of future specialists. Such scientific experiments can also be carried out within the framework of master's theses, which increases the level of research works of the university.
 
Figure 1 – Students-energy managers of SE IEE on an excursion
 
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Figure 2 – Study of the properties of building materials
a) a chamber for testing materials for the period of effective operation
b) installation for testing enclosing structures for air and water permeability, wind and static loads
 

Make the Ukraine’s energy system more resilient to external and internal security challenges. This is the task for which the DiXi Group think tank brings together Ukrainian, European and American stakeholders on one platform. In the heart of the country, where almost every citizen has experienced this challenge over the past year.

On December 12, the third Ukrainian Energy Security Dialogue will be held in Ukraine under the patronage of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine and with the financial support of the International Renaissance Foundation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Ukraine).

The topic of the Ukrainian Energy Security Dialogue 2023 is Resilience and Recovery. Together with the participants, we will explore what approaches and tools will help strengthen the stability of Ukraine's energy system. And we will also create a vision of the common energy future of Ukraine and the entire European region.

✔️ What decisions and actions by the Ukrainian government, business, and international partners will help create a sustainable energy system?

✔️ What will help Ukraine's energy system to withstand physical and hacker attacks, reliably supply energy resources in the process of transition away from fossil fuels, and make local communities and cities energy independent and resilient?

The Ukrainian Energy Security Dialogue aims to find answers on how to do this.

👉 Registration: https://bit.ly/3SwOL40 

Among the speakers of the conference are representatives of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Bank, the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, the Energy Community, businesses in the field of energy and local communities.

When: December 12, 14:00 - 18:00 (Kyiv time)
Language: simultaneous translation (Ukrainian and English)
Place and format: Kyiv and online.

From November 22 to 24, as part of events on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Insttute, the international scientific-technical and educational-methodical conference "PROBLEMS OF ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - PEMS'23" was held.

The IX International scientific-practical and educational-methodical conference "PROBLEMS OF ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - PEMS'23" is dedicated to scientific, technical, economic and educational-methodical problems of building effective systems of energy management, rational use of renewable and non-renewable energy resources, which enable to increase the energy efficiency of the functioning of the energy sector of our country in war and post-war times, to ensure the energy security of Ukraine, to implement the energy efficiency policy of enterprises, organizations and institutions in accordance with the provisions of the concept of "green" energy transition.

The purpose of the conference: exchange of experience of educators, scientists and engineering and technical workers in the context of modern aspects of energy efficiency, energy management and energy conservation, energy saving, rational use of natural minerals and energy resources, demonstration of scientific achievements and the search for new solutions to the problems of energy efficiency and energy conservation in various fields, and as well as their practical application at the current stage of the development of the energy sector of Ukraine, training and retraining of specialists in the modern conditions of the development of higher education in the field of energy management.

On the last day of the conference, the "Young scientists" section was held, in which students of the SPP "Electric Power Distribution Systems Engineering"; "Energy management and energy efficient technologies" and SSP "Energy Management, Electricity Supply and Engineering of Electrotechnical Complexes" made more than 30 scientific reports as part of their dissertation studies.

An international scientific conference was held online this week "2023 IEEE 4th KhPI Week on Advanced Technology".

As part of the event, Kateryna Lyakhova, a 1st-year master's student of the SPP "Electric Power Distribution Systems Engineering", made a speech.

Kateryna's scientific report was prepared as part of the work of the group "Smart Grid systems with sources of distributed generation" under the leadership of Denys Derevianko.

The participants of the sectional meeting noted the relevance of the research highlighted by Kateryna, which related to the use of photovoltaic systems in Mediterranean countries on roller shutters and shutters to meet the needs of households in hot water heating.

With the support of the European Union, Ukraine will receive 5,700 solar photovoltaic systems manufactured by the Italian company Enel with a capacity of 350 W for the public sector by the summer.

On May 18 at 3:00 p.m., the section "Sustainable development of energy sector. Modern systems of power supply." XV scientific and technical conference "Energy. Ecology. Human"

At this section, reports on the subject of the section will be heard.

Link to ZOOM :

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/7914546477?pwd=MzlJTXViSWgwYVNVajFyUlZrYTdHZz09

ID: 791-454-6477

PSW: 478304

In 2022, Europe installed 19.1 GW of new wind energy capacity, of which 87% are land-based wind power plants. (16.7 GW on land and 2.5 GW at sea). In general, Europe already has 255 GW of wind energy capacity, of which 225 GW are onshore wind turbines, 30 GW are offshore wind turbines.

The countries of the European Union have 204 GW of wind energy capacity, of which 188 GW are on land and 16 GW are offshore. The largest capacity of new wind power plants was installed in Germany - 14% of all new installed capacity, in Sweden (13%), in Finland (13%), in France (11%). Almost half of the offshore installations were installed in Great Britain, and France installed its first large offshore wind farm in 2022.

In total, 489 TWh were produced by wind farms in Europe. The European association predicts that during 2023-2027, an additional 129 GW of new wind power capacity will be installed in Europe. 

In 2022, Ukraine installed 83 MW of new wind power capacity. At the same time, 75% of the entire installed capacity of wind power plants in Ukraine (1.8 GW) is currently not working.

 As part of cooperation and assistance in the reconstruction of the energy system, Ukraine received from the Republic of Lithuania a powerful power autotransformer, which will be installed at a high-voltage substation of the electricity transmission system. It transforms the voltage from the main line to the distribution level and can provide power to up to 200,000 households. 

The transportation of this autotransformer to Ukraine was the largest logistical operation ever coordinated by the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.