The following is the first installment in a three-part series on the proposed Energy Bridge project, an energy development and regional energy interconnection initiative for Ukraine and its neighbors. The series covers issues and opportunities related to Energy Bridge from three viewpoints: Ukraine’ the European Union (EU) and other international parties (e.g., the US), and Poland.
Energy insecurity in Ukraine has the potential to be even more destabilizing in the long-term than the conflict in the Donbass region. The US and the EU have been actively supporting Ukrainian efforts to reform its energy sector, with much attention paid to reducing Ukrainian dependence on Russian gas and to modernizing the Ukrainian gas sector. While the Trump administration is weighing in against the proposed Russian gas pipeline into Europe, Nord Stream 2, due to its potentially harmful impact on Ukraine’s economic and security situation, the attention paid to Ukraine’s gas sector needs to be complemented with a stronger focus on Ukraine’s electricity and nuclear power industry.
