Automation Practice

On February 18, 2026, during the online meeting of Energy Club «Technologies and solutions for energy security of communities», Kostyantyn Butenko, chief engineer of the engineering company PJSC «ELAKS», spoke. In his report, he focused exclusively on practical critical infrastructure automation solutions that allow communities to operate sustainably even in unstable energy supply environments.

Most pumping stations in Ukraine still work in jet mode:
accident → repair → accident again.

The ELAKS team completed a project to implement an automatic backup power supply system (ATS) at a factory manufacturing instant food products in a 0.4 kV switchboard.