Energy Decentralization as a Path to Energy Security: Poland’s Experience for Ukrainian Communities

The study conducted in this article is devoted to the consideration of topical issues of Ukraine's achievement of energy decentralization in order to protect the national energy system from crisis processes in wartime, to increase its resilience by developing distributed generation at the local level. The analysis was carried out by comparing with similar local entities in Poland (gmina and poviat) based on the assessment of existing and potential energy sources, as well as the calculation of the energy balance of the territory.