How wind power grew in Ukraine
In 1931 the Soviet Union built a 100 kW grid-connected wind plant at Balaklava, near Sevastopol in Crimea. It was the world's most powerful wind plant until 1940, and it was destroyed in 1942. In the 1990s wind farms in Crimea reached about 110 MW, using turbines from the Yuzhnoye design bureau in Dnipropetrovsk. In October 2012 DTEK was connecting the first 90 MW of its Botievo farm in Zaporizhzhia region, with 30 Vestas turbines.
A green tariff was created by a 2008 law amendment and is paid from 2009 until the end of 2029. By the end of 2021 Ukraine had 1.7 GW of wind in 34 farms, which produced 3,866 GWh that year, about 2.5% of supply. After Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, officials reported large losses. In January 2023 a deputy energy minister said about 80% of wind facilities were out of service or seized. He said almost all farms in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv regions had been on the front line or in occupied territory early in the war.
DTEK finished the first 114 MW of its Tyligulska farm in Mykolaiv region in early 2023, with 19 Vestas turbines. UWEA reports that 324.4 MW was added in 2025, more than in 2022 to 2024 together. It counts 2.2 GW installed, of which 1.3 GW is in occupied territory. A national plan approved in August 2024 targets 27% renewables in gross final energy consumption by 2030. UWEA calls grid connection the sector's most critical bottleneck.
Sources: Zenodo · Kyiv Post · Legal 500 · BalticWind.EU · Ukrinform · Electrek · Interfax-Ukraine · Interfax
Where Ukraine's power comes from, 2022
| Source | Share of electricity |
|---|---|
| Nuclear | 55.8% |
| Coal | 20.9% |
| Hydro | 9.9% |
| Gas | 6.4% |
| Solar | 4.6% |
| Wind | 1.3% |
| Bioenergy | 0.7% |
| Other fossil fuels | 0.5% |
Wind farms in Ukraine
We track 39 wind farms in Ukraine: 0.6 GW operating and 1.7 GW under construction, consented or planned. Each one's owners, turbines and status are in the Wind app.
Electricity data: Ember yearly electricity data (CC BY 4.0). Wind farms: national registers and Global Energy Monitor; see data sources.
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