{"id":476365,"date":"2022-03-17T10:08:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T04:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=476365"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T05:46:46","slug":"ukraine-joins-european-grid-ending-dependence-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ukraine-joins-european-grid-ending-dependence-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine joins European grid, ending dependence on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers have linked Ukraine to an electricity grid spanning much of continental Europe, allowing the country to decouple its power system from hostile Russia, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium-based ENTSO-E, which represents dozens of transmission system operators in Europe, said the electricity grids of Ukraine and its smaller neighbour Moldova were successfully synchronized with the Continental European Power System on a trial basis. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a significant milestone,\u201d the group said. <\/p>\n<p>Grid operators had been preparing such a move after Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea in 2014, but the large-scale Russian military assault on Ukraine last month prompted an emergency request by Kyiv to speed up a process that was expected to take years more to complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers have linked Ukraine to an electricity grid spanning much of continental Europe, allowing the country to decouple its power system from hostile Russia, officials said Wednesday. Belgium-based ENTSO-E, which represents dozens of transmission system operators in Europe, said the electricity grids of Ukraine and its smaller neighbour Moldova were successfully synchronized with the Continental European Power System on a trial basis. \u201cThis is a significant milestone,\u201d the group said. Grid operators had been preparing such a move after Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea in 2014, but the large-scale Russian military assault on Ukraine last month prompted an emergency request by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}