Ukraine has unveiled a solar plant in Chornobyl, just across from where a power station, now encased in a giant sarcophagus, caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster three decades ago. Built in a contaminated area, which remains largely uninhabitable and where visitors are accompanied by guides carrying radiation meters, 3,800 panels produce energy to power…
The State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use offers to check energy facilities without prior notification. Under the law on the Procedure for Conducting Inspections of Entrepreneurship Entities, objects with a high degree of risk are checked not more than once a year. The prescription is issued for a group of objects. But experts…
The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine has compiled and approved the Forecast Balance of Electricity for 2019, according to which an increase in electricity exports from Ukraine is projected at 5.3%, to 6.42 billion kWh in the next year compared to the Forecast Balance for the current year of June 15. According…
Coal buyers have overpaid UAH 15 billion, or $536 million, for the illegal use of the so-called “Rotterdam Plus” formula. “The other day, we got an economic report by specialists who concluded that the use of ‘Rotterdam Plus’ tariff was indeed unreasonably applied, the established amount of illegally charged funds received as a result of…
About EUR 880 million of investments have been attracted in the development of new renewable energy capacities in Ukraine since 2015, Head of the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine Serhiy Savchuk stated in his speech at the conference “Eco-Innovation and Green Entrepreneurship: Made in Ukraine”. “In general, about EUR 880…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has thanked his Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovia for supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The meeting between the two presidents was held at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in New York, the press service of the head of state reported. In addition, the parties discussed a wide range…
The EBRD-managed program supporting energy efficiency in Ukrainian homes has reached a milestone of investing over UAH 1 billion (equivalent of over EUR 30 million). More than 30,000 Ukrainian households took out loans from local commercial banks, which participated in the program to invest in green technologies for their homes; of those, over 20,000 projects…