The EU has declared independence from Russian energy resources, and gas prices have broken a psychological low. As reported by the European Commission, this was achieved thanks to the EU’s plan to reduce gas consumption. It is noted that the EU has stopped importing coal and oil from the Russian Federation, and... #EUGasPurchase #gasprices #RussianEnergyResources #RussianGas
The state has again increased its debt to producers of green electricity. In April, Ukraine’s debt to RES suppliers grew by 10% and exceeds UAH 18B ($491M), according to data from the state-owned enterprise, Guaranteed Buyer. As of May 22, the state company purchased 2.3 mi... #energyukraine #GreenEnergyUkraine #GuaranteedBuyer #RenewableEnergy #Ukrenergo
Polish energy group Orlen will finally complete the oil pipeline from Odesa to Gdansk. The new oil pipeline will connect the ports of Odesa in Ukraine and the ports of Gdansk in Poland. According to TVP.info, Orlen’s management has returned to the once-suspended Odesa-Brody-Plock-... #OilPipeline #OilTransit #Orlen #PolandUkraine
Ukraine and Germany have launched a powerful €2M green recovery project. A joint Ukrainian-German project, the Renewable Energy Sources for a Sustainable Ukraine – R2U, has been undertaken to benefit Ukrainian communities. This is the first stage, involving the imple... #R2Uproject #RenewableEnergy #SolarEnergyUkraine #UkraineEnergy
The occupiers have attacked the Ukrainian energy system again, and the Zaporizhzhia NPP was de-energized entirely. After the nighttime shelling on May 22, complications resulted in the Ukrainian energy system, but it continues to work stably, the Ministry of Energy reports. In the massive attack, two mines in the ... #RussianAttackonUkraine #UkraineENergySystem #WarinUkraine #zaporizhzhiaNPP
The IAEA is preparing a new safety plan for the Zaporizhzhia NPP. According to the WP, Rafael Grossi’s team plans to present the program to the UN Security Council next week. The plan is based on five principles: a ban on placing heavy military equipment and s... #IAEA #RafaelMarianoGrossi #zaporizhzhiaNPP
Ukrainian wind farm finishes first step of construction. The first phase of the power plant, with a capacity of 114 MW, was built in the Mykolayiv region. The project coordinator plans to increase the wind farm’s total capacity to 500 MW, which would ... #HannaZamazeyeva #TyligulskaWindPowerPlant #UkraineGreenEnergy #WindEnergyUkraine
A German media source claims that Ukrainians might be involved in sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines. In an investigation by the German media companies NDR, WDR, and the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung with the participation of Swedish Expressen, Polish Frontstory, and Danish Berlingske regarding the ex... #NordStream #nordstream2 #NordStream2sabotage #NordStreamDamage
Poland is building the largest offshore wind farm in the EU. Polish group Orlen has started constructing an onshore substation for the future Baltic Power wind farm in the Baltic Sea, which is scheduled to become operational in 2026. The company plans to start ... #GreenENergy #OffshoreWindEnergy #Orlen #WindEnergy
Ukraine can provide the entire continent with clean electricity, the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine claims. “The nuclear potential of our country will make it possible to destroy the monopoly of Russian Rosatom in the EU,” said the Minister of Energy of Ukraine, Herman Galushchenko. He added that Ukraine’s ... #energyukraine #GreenEnergyUkraine #HermanGalushchenko #NuclearEnergyUkraine #YaroslavDemchenkov
Europe is reducing its dependence on China and building its solar panel factory. According to estimates by Holosolis, which will build the facility in France, it will be 70% larger than any currently available in Europe. The plant will start production in 2025 and its designed cap... #GreenENergy #Holosolis #REPowerEU #SolarEnergy
The state has improved settlement performance with producers of green electricity. The state’s debts to RES producers did not increase in 2022, and in 2023 the payment level to these producers increased, said the head of the parliamentary committee on energy issues, Andrii Ger... #AndriiGerus #energyukraine #GreenEnergyUkraine
Borrell insists on blocking the import of Indian fuel produced from Russian oil. In an interview with the FT, the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, called such supplies circumventing sanctions, and the EU member states should take measures. Last year India ... #circumventionOfSanctions #IndianFuel #JosepBorrell #RussianOil #SanctionsAgainstRussia
European traders are reserving capacity for gas storage due to a significant drop in prices. Dmytro Lippa, General Director of Ukraine GTS Operator, specified that interest from European traders in the Ukrainian gas infrastructure is growing due to the record seasonal spread. As a result, ser... #DmytroLippa #EUGasPurchase #GasstorageUkraine #UkrainianGTS
The G7 and the EU will not resume importation of Russian gas supplies to Europe. The Group of Seven (G7) countries and the EU plan to ban the import of Russian gas along routes where Moscow has previously cut supplies, reported Bloomberg. This decision will prevent the resumption ... #DruzhbaPipeline #Gazprom #RussianGas #RussianGasTransit #SanctionsAgainstRussia
The Ukrainian government will implement one of the IMF’s structural beacons. The Cabinet of Ministers approved a draft law which will allow the liquidation of the Gas Pipelines of Ukraine (GPU) company in an expedited manner. It will be merged with the Operator of the GTS of U... #IMFprogramm #IMFStructuralBeacons #UkrainianGTS
The Czech Republic has found an Italian replacement for the Russian Druzhba pipeline. Czech pipeline operator Mero has reached an agreement with its shareholders to expand the Transalpine Oil Pipeline (TAL), Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced. They want to complete the project i... #DruzhbaPipeline #Mero #PetrFiala #RussianOil #TransalpineOilPipeline
The European Commission will conduct the first joint gas purchase. An international tender has been announced within the framework of the EU Energy Platform, said Vice President of the European Commission Marosh Šefčovych. In particular, 107 companies have signed up ... #AggregateEU #EUGasPurchase #MaroshŠefčovych
Naftogaz decides not to build a CHP biofuel plant in Lviv. State company Naftogaz of Ukraine refused to implement the construction of the first biofuel CHP plant in Lviv worth UAH 1B ($27.5M) that had been initiated by the ex-head of the company, Yuriy Vitren... #AndriySadovyi #BiofuelPlant #energyukraine #Naftogaz
The G7 is preparing a strike against the Russian Federation’s shadow fleet. According to the FT, the G7 countries want to solve the issue of manipulation of tanker transponders that are turned off while at sea or do not transmit data about their destination ports. Using these... #G7 #RussianOil #RussianOilEmbargo #SanctionsAgainstRussia #ShadowFleetRussia
Ukraine’s oil giant plans to double production and create a network of 1,200 gas stations. According to Ukrnafta’s 2023 financial plan, its capital investments will increase to UAH 35B ($920M), according to the Ministry of Finance. The company’s strategic plan envisages increasing oil... #EnergyInvestments #GasStationsUkraine #OilProductionUkraine #Ukrnafta
Ukraine has adopted an EU standard for injecting biomethane into its gas networks. The Ukrainian Research and Training Center approved the corresponding Standardization, Certification, and Quality Problems document. The standard was developed based on the current EU protocol, noted ... #biomethaneinUkraine #BiomethaneStandard #BiomethaneTransportation #UkraineEnergy
Ukraine can guarantee the transportation of 42 million cubic meters of gas per day from the EU and 300 million from Ukraine to Europe, the GTS Operator reported. The company’s GM, Dmytro Lippa, noted that EU gas storage facilities are filling up faster than last year, and most of them are already reserved until the end of 2023.... #DmytroLippa #GasstorageUkraine #GasTransit #UkraineEnergy #UkrainianGTS
More than 10 companies are seeking to build three dozen biomethane plants in Ukraine, reported the Operator of GTS of Ukraine. It is noted that the GTS Operator is considering the development plans of Ukraine’s gas transportation system and is currently ready to provide biomethane tran... #biomethaneinUkraine #BiomethanePlant #UkraineGTS
Ukraine plans to launch the State Fund for Decarbonization and Energy Efficient Transformation. “The creation of the Fund is a signal to international partners that our country is developing according to European principles. This includes the reduction of harmful CO2 emissions and investments in... #DecarbonizationUkraine #EnergyEfficient #GreenENergy #OleksandrKubrakov #UkraineEnergy
Norway is resuming development of Arctic oil and gas fields to become a key energy supplier to the EU. Norway’s largest oil and gas companies plan to continue exploring new oil and gas fields this year to stabilize the energy crises created by Russian aggression against Ukraine. This guarantees t... #EnergyCrisis #NorwayGas #NorwayOil #OilProduction
Ukraine has launched an updated transmission line to export electricity to Poland. Ukrainian and Polish technicians carried out modernization efforts, and the line has been in operation, having since passed the three-day test period, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said. He emphasized ... #UkraineElectricityExport #UkraineEnergy #Ukrenergo #VolodymyrKudrytskyi
Ukraine’s new energy strategy is based on nuclear power plants and renewable sources. On May 1, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the new Energy Strategy of Ukraine until 2050, with the intent of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. This means reducing the use of coal and focusing on devel... #NuclearEnergyUkraine #RenewableEnergy #UkraineEnergy
Ukrainian Energy Transition Forum: sparking energy security from the global to microgrid levels The energy community is looking for ways to help Ukraine as well as itself. As Moscow continues its genocidal war against Ukraine and the West, the energy sector’s transformation is happening gl... #AndrewBowie #AndyHunder #DalePerry #Ukrainian Energy Transition Forum #UkrainianEnergy #UkrainianEnergyTransitionForum
Ukrainian Climate tech startup fights carbon pollution with its unique, newly developed technology. Climate change is humanity’s most significant health threat, and health professionals worldwide are already responding to the health harms caused by this unfolding crisis. The climate crisis thr... #Carbominer #CarbomPollution #ClimateProjects #ClimateTechStartup #NickOseyko #SMRK #ubnnews #UkraineStartups #ViktoriaOseyko
Ukrhydroenergo will start electricity export to Moldova in May. The Moldovan state company, Energocom, signed a contract with the Ukrainian state company, Ukrhydroenergo, to supply 30,000 MWh of electricity in May 2023. “In May, SA Energocom will purchase 29... #EnergoCom #UkraineElectricityExport #UkraineEnergy #Ukrhydroenergo
Ukraine plans to increase the transit fee of Russian oil by another 50%. According to Russian media, Ukrtransnafta is planning a two-stage increase in the tariff for the transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba oil pipeline. From June 1, the rate for transit will increas... #DruzhbaPipeline #RussianOil #RussianOilTransitTariff #Transneft #Ukrtransnafta
The world’s longest underwater transmission line will provide Great Britain with green electricity. Energy companies Octopus Energy from Great Britain and TAQA from Abu Dhabi are investing £30M to construct the world’s longest marine power transmission line with a length of 3,800 km. The proje... #GreenENergy #OctopusEnergy #TAQA #UnderwaterTransmissionLine #Xlinks
Two new gas wells allow Ukraine to increase daily gas production by 300,000 cubic meters. State gas producer Ukrgazvydobuvannya has launched two production wells in April at one of the largest fields in Ukraine. The two wells added more than 300,000 cubic meters of gas to the company’... #GasProductionUkraine #GasWell #Naftogaz
Ukraine plans to cover energy supplier losses with reparations from the Russian Federation. The Cabinet of Ministers submitted to the Parliament a draft law on the specifics of the provision of energy and communal services under martial law. The losses from enterprises are to be compensated ... #CommunalServices #CommunalServicesDebts
Ukraine has joined the new gas purchase platform launched by the EU. The EU has launched a first-of-its-kind process for European companies to register their gas purchase needs via the AggregateEU mechanism to prepare for the joint purchase of gas through a coordinated... #EUGasPurchase #gasstorage #Naftogaz
The EU’s attempt to substitute offshore wind energy for Russian gas is falling short. European efforts to rapidly scale up offshore wind farms to help cut dependence on Russian natural gas and reduce planet-warming emissions are falling short as developers struggle to deliver completed... #GreenENergy #OffshoreWindEnergy #RasmusErrboe
Naftogaz invites foreign oil companies to participate in gas production in Ukraine; the first contract is close to being signed. The Ukrainian company is negotiating with ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Halliburton regarding their potential participation in Ukrainian gas production, said Naftogaz chairman Oleksiy Chernyshov. The compa... #GasProductionUkraine #Halliburton #Naftogaz #OleksiyChernyshov
Ukraine wants to increase electricity export to the EU to 10 GW BY 2050. Ukraine plans to expand its capacity to export electricity to the EU to 10 GW by 2050, said Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko. “At first, it will be a little more than two GW, in 2032, we plan to in... #HermanGalushchenko #UkraineElectricityExport
Germany will use Nord Stream to build a terminal for liquefied gas. Germany plans to open the Baltic terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG), connected to Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipeline network’s infrastructure, by the beginning of 2024. According to B... #GermanyLNG #LNGterminals #NordStream #RobertHabeck
Ukraine’s debt is increasing to producers of green energy. State energy company Ukrenergo already owes UAH 16B ($435M) to the state-owned enterprise Guaranteed Buyer, which is owed for green energy produced in 2021-2023. At the same time, in 10 days of April,... #GreenEnergyUkraine #GuaranteedBuyer #UkraineENergySystem
The smooth export of electricity from Ukraine to the EU is being hindered by bureaucracy. According to Ukrenergo, there is no procedure for holding joint auctions for access to interstate crossings, and the National Energy Market Regulation Commission is delaying the approval of this proce... #UkraineElectricityExport #Ukrenergo
Renewable Energy market of Ukraine before and after the war. Ukraine’s green path to energy independence and investment opportunities for foreign partners. Renewable energy began being actively developed in Ukraine after 2014 – at the end of the yea... #Energy #energyukraine #RenewableEnergy #RenewableEnergyUkraine #SolarEnergyUkraine #WindEnergy #WindEnergyUkraine
A Lithuanian energy company will share extra profits with Ukraine, and Shell has been asked to do the same. The Lithuanian company Ignitis Group, with headquarters in Vilnius, has decided to direct 10%, or €12M, of surplus profits to Ukraine’s restoration, said Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko. The compa... #HermanGalushchenko #IgnitisGroup #OlegUstenko #Shell
The ban on the export of gas and coal will continue, an electricity export ban is not excluded. Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said at a press conference in Kyiv that the ban allowed Ukraine to pass the winter without importing coal. At the beginning of the heating season, the country had m... #HermanGalushchenko #UkraineElectricityExport #UkraineENergySystem
Ukraine demands Russia pay UAH 32B in compensation for damages to the Zaporizhzhia NPP. State nuclear energy company Energoatom has decided to apply to the International Court of Arbitration for compensation for the damage caused by Russia to the Zaporizhzhia NPP and other objects of the... #Energoatom #zaporizhzhiaNPP
Naftogaz has won an arbitration case against Russia for $5B over assets in Crimea. The arbitration tribunal at the Permanent Chamber of the Arbitration Court in The Hague ordered Russia to pay $5B to Naftogaz of Ukraine, the company’s head, Oleksiy Chernyshov, said. He explain... #Naftogaz #OleksiyChernyshov
The first biomethane plant in Ukraine has been connected to the gas network. The Regional Gas Company (RGK) has added Ukraine’s first biomethane plant to its network. The enterprise will produce about three million cubic meters of gas annually, supplying nearly 1,500 customers... #BiomethanePlant #Chernihivgaz
Ukrainian oil and gas giants will jointly extract hydrocarbons. Ukrnafta and Ukrgazvydobuvannya will collaborate on joint oil and gas production in license areas where one company owns the production permits and the wells belong to the other. Currently, consultati... #HydroCarbonProduction #SerhiyKoretskyi #Ukrgazvydobuvannya #Ukrnafta
The World Bank has announced $200M in grant financing for a project that will repair Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. The Ukraine Relief, Recovery, Reconstruction and Reform Trust Fund provides the funds for this project, with additional funding of up to $300M envisaged from partners through grants and other contrib... #AntonellaBassani #EnergyInfrastructure #RestoringUkraine
