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Following the generous loan granted by the United States of America, Minister Herman Halushchenko of the Ministry of Energy has begun to put it to use immediately in not only the Kaniv Pumped Storage Station’s finalized construction but also as a foundation for all hydroelectric dams within Ukraine.

The idea is that we place turbines within the intake manifold before they reach the turbines as shown within this diagram with the main idea to be increasing the speed at which the water flows up to five times the amount. We would be able to control the speed through the set of turbines existing, so in high-demand hours we may increase it or decrease in low-demand.

What creates this as a pilot is that we could use this and replicate it all over every other hydroelectric station and system within Ukraine with the ability of quadrupling the amount of power produced. This enables us to become a net-power producer once again and may allow us to completely move off of thermal energy by the 2040’s.

For Kaniv specifically, it already is due to produce 1,000MW of power but with this production being four-times that, we can allow for Ukraine to become the green country it deserves to be.

The Costs

The cost to do this is relatively cheap and extremely simple, the only issues being that we need to do the following,

• Modernize KPSPS’s batteries to prevent an overload

• Install new safety measures within the manifolds to prevent erosion safety measures within the main turbine rooms in emergency situations

• Environmental protection from discharge waves - we will have to create a sluice gate outside of the downstream outlet to trap the water if containment fails as well as an in-line elevator to divert the water and half its speed. (This also relieves further pressure from the sluice gate - if containment were breached, the outlet would be blown off without the elevator)

• Upgrade the turbines to be able to physically withstand the increased water pressure and speeds

The cost will be in the billions for each and every hydroelectric dam within Ukraine to be modernized in this way, however again with Kaniv being a pilot-program, we have already secured more than enough funds to do this in the immediate time.

The batteries and their upgrades will take 5-months to perform and will cost ~$25m to do, as for the safety measures within the manifold and the power plant chambers, this will cost ~$50million not only to reinforce but also to train the staff and construction teams in emergency protocols. (Waterproof containment chambers will be constructed for emergency crews to evacuate to if in the case of a breach)

As for the turbines, we can use the remaining $75 million the United States gave us for this to upgrade the existing three turbines while using the remaining ~$200 million to finalize its base-construction. It is anticipated the turbines will be prepared for this endeavor (as well as the installation of the “speed-chamber” within the manifold) by December of 2024.

• Maximum MW potential of 5000

• Maximum Safety Velocity of 650mph (300m/s) within each manifold projected to reach 4000MW

The turbine not only halves this from 300m/s to 150m/s (375mph) but further with the elevator systems, the discharge speed comes out to 75mph, a heavy current but enough that it doesn’t negative downstream river biota beyond 1-2 kilometers which is within standard parameters.

In total, the construction will complete by 2024 of all systems, however the testing program of this speed-turbine with the fourth power-turbine can begin within 8-months. Combined with American engineers helping us in all efforts at this station, once its all complete and operational in the Spring of 2025, we will be producing double than our nuclear power plant in Netishyn.

Total cost: $401m

Final Date: Spring 2025

(American engineers are working with ours on the project)