Ukrainian energy crisis

NOV2000020803 - 08 FEBRUARY 2000 - NOVOOZERNOYE, UKRAINE: A technician climbs one of 2500 windmills in Novoozernoye, Ukraine, that supply electrical power to the surrounding area. Eight Ukrainian Navy pensioners built the generators in 1993 with the help of an American company to supply the nearby naval base. The Ukraine is currently in the middle of an energy crisis as it tries to bring its economy out of the shadow of the former Soviet Union. jr/jr/Sergei Svetlitsky UPI. powers Novoozernoye, neglected Navy garrison, Ukraine..Windpower-station, which consists of 2,500 units (at photos, height 22 m, weight 150 kg), was founded on 1993 by eight navy pensioners, who put their savings to research the problem of power supply of garrison and the problem of unemployment. Both problems aggravated after Soviet Union dies, so the Navy become ruin At this period the garrison had no enough means even to light flats and to heat up ones..After these pensioners won competition about the place for building windpower-station, the Ukrainian-American corporation "WINDENERGO" put money to construction..Now Ukraine is in the hard energy crisis, but not Novoozernoye, which provides with power even neighboring regions. .Photo: Sergei Svetlitsky..