Day 1447

Nine Megawatts of Victory

So Kyiv celebrated yesterday. Prime Minister Shmyhal convened the Emergency Situation Headquarters for Energy and announced the capital would receive an extra nine megawatts of power.

Nine.

At current wholesale rates, we’re talking about €765 per hour. For a capital city of three million people.

But wait, there’s more: Ukraine has also received 27,000 tons of humanitarian aid since the invasion began. Of which 25,100 tons has already been distributed to the regions. In just the last two weeks, 17 humanitarian shipments arrived from 11 partners. Including 774 generators. And 40 units of modular boiler rooms, cogeneration plants, boilers, and other equipment.

Victory these days looks like press releases itemizing donated generators while announcing additional electrical capacity worth less than a Tesla Model 3 per hour.