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 The head of Energoatom, Petro Kotin, said that a small modular reactor may be constructed by 2030. The announcement was made during the recent Ukraine Gas Investment Congress, which was held in Kyiv last Wednesday.

 Underground gas storage facilities are ready to provide 40% of the gas capacity of non-resident customers, including the storage of insurance reserves of “blue fuel” said Serhiy Pereloma, the General Director of Ukrtransgaz on its Facebook page. “The gas crisis of 2021 has once again drawn the EU’s attention to the issue of insurance reserves. The European Commission is looking for tools to implement such a plan and potential sites for long-term storage of large volumes of gas”, said Pereloma.

will strengthen its sustainability and level of security of supplies, said Denys Shmyhal during the 23rd Ukraine-EU Summit. The integration of the unified energy system of Ukraine into ENTSO-E plays a key role in the energy security of Ukraine and the entire European continent. “Ukraine’s disconnection from the power system of the Russian Federation will lead to the loss of the latter’s strategic influence on the electricity sector not only in Ukraine but also in European countries. Integration into ENTSO-E

Yuriy Vitrenko, chairman of Naftogaz, told RFE/RL on Saturday.  “The battle is lost, but the war isn’t,” he vowed. “And our ‘war’ against Nord Stream 2 continues.” Gazprom owns the pipeline and the gas that is to go through it. This violates the EU’s Third Energy Package, he said. In 2019, Vitrenko led the Naftogaz legal team that forced Gazprom to pay nearly $3 billion in a Stockholm arbitration case.

 speaker after speaker warned yesterday at the European-Ukrainian Energy Day forum in Kyiv. “Electricity trading cross the border may no longer bring in funds for needed investments,” warned Mats Lundin, chairman of the EU Energy Agency. “Steel exports may no longer be a viable business for the large Ukrainian industries that we have learnt to rely on for job opportunities and tax revenues.”