The united power grid of Ukraine today can accept up to 3 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity of solar power plants and wind farms without an unbalanced response risk and serious changes to its structure, Ukrenergo Head Vsevolod Kovalchuk said at a roundtable in the Verkhovna Rada. According to him, this installed capacity of renewable…
The actual inflation in Ukraine in February 2018 from February 2017 was somewhat higher than the Central Bank’s benchmark announced in January. “In general the current dynamics of consumer inflation and its components indicate that inflationary pressure remains significant. At the same time, its amplification in February was curbed by the strengthening of the hryvnia,…
In February Ukrainian plants manufactured 721 motor vehicles, up almost 2-fold YoY, the Ukrainian Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association, UkrAutoProm reported. The largest share of motor vehicle production was made up by cars, which totaled 606 unit (all manufactured by ZAO Eurocar: up by 134% YoY and by 26.5% MoM). Also, in February 35 trucks were…
Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPPs) produced 237.60 million kWh of electricity on March 11, the press-service of Ukraine’s State Enterprise “National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom” reports. On March 12, 11 out of 15 power units were functioning at the Ukrainian power plants. It was the 52nd day of average planned repairs at power unit…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has expressed gratitude to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for organizing the financing of EUR 25.9 million for construction of solar power plants with a capacity of almost 34 MW in Vinnytsia region. “The EBRD has allocated EUR 25.9 million for construction of three solar power plants in…
In January Ukrainian milk production amounted to 69.7 thousand tons, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reports. Milk production with fat content no more than 1% in primary packs with a net volume of more than 2 liters amounted to 30.4 thousand tons, down by 3.6% YoY. The production of milk with a fat content…
After the Turkish government has recently put out an urgent request for 120 complete active protection systems to go on M60A3, M60T, and Leopard 2A4 tanks, Turkish defense contractor Aselsan obtained a license from Ukraine’s Microtek to produce a version of their Zaslon-L system, which it called the Akkor Pulat. Aselsan’s own Akkor system is…