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The Kyiv city budget will reimburse the cost of independent energy sources for buildings in the capital depending on their number of storeys. The relevant decision was submitted to the Kyiv City Council on June 4, but Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko insultingly announced its adoption. Until now, all condominiums/association of housing cooperatives/managers were entitled to receive […]

Pope Francis has issued a decree to create a field of solar panels to provide the Vatican with electricity. The solar farm is to be built in northern Rome at a location that has long been a source of controversy due to the radiation from the Vatican Radio towers there. This is reported by Renewable […]

According to the European Biogas Association (EBA), the European biomethane sector will receive 25 billion euros in private investment by 2030. This was reported by the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine on its Facebook page. According to UABIO, the second edition of the Biomethane Investments Outlook predicts an additional 2.1 billion euros of investment in the […]

The Solar Energy Association of Ukraine and the SE Guaranteed Buyer have agreed to hold an open discussion of issues that arise in the course of business activities of buying and selling electricity between RES producers under the feed-in tariff and the state under the market premium mechanism. According to the SEAU, questions that market […]

The United States of America is a country where green technologies grow especially fast and even bold startups find investors. This is just some of the news from the renewable energy industry, but it also demonstrates that this industry is developing at a frantic pace in the United States with huge budgets. And the government […]

By the end of 2023, US companies reported operating 575 batteries with a total capacity of 15,814 megawatts. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA), based on the plans of energy companies, expects that by the end of 2028, the capacity of batteries in the United States will more than double to 35,953 MW. This is […]

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) for the period up to 2030. According to the press service of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, the decision was made at a meeting on June 25. The NECP is a strategic document aimed at harmonizing environmental, energy, and economic policies […]

DTEK Renewables has received technical specifications for connecting 650 MW of wind capacity to Ukraine’s power grid. According to the company, the wind farm will be built on the territory of the Globynska territorial community in Poltava region. Construction is expected to begin in 2025. A second weather mast has already been installed on the […]

Oleksandr Dombrovskyi, President of MHP Eco Energy, Chairman of the Board of Global 100% RE Ukraine, and Anna Pastukh, lawyer of the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine, visited one of the demonstration sites in Thessaloniki. They took part in a meeting of project partners to discuss innovative ways to produce biomethane. The BIOMETHAVERSE project (BIOMETHAne uniVERSE) […]

The Bioenergy Association of Ukraine has written a letter to the Office of the President, NEURC and GTS Operator regarding the problems of the biomethane industry in Ukraine The Association published a statement on its Facebook page. “Today, Ukrainian companies are working hard to establish the production of biomethane from agricultural waste, which is a […]

The Solar Energy Association of Ukraine calls on the government to use each available kilowatt of power efficiently and to stop the practice of disconnecting existing solar power plants from the grid. The Association published a corresponding petition on its Facebook page. Here is the full text of the petition: “With the constant shortage of […]

Parliament has adopted as a basis the European integration draft law No. 9597 on amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On Alternative Fuels” to create a register of facilities that use biofuels as the only type of fuel. This draft law aims to create a register of biofuel facilities (including biogas and biomethane) in order […]

InterSolar 2024, the largest international exhibition in the solar energy industry, has started its work in Munich. This year, about 115,000 visitors are expected on the exhibition area of 111,000 square meters (the territory of two stadiums of the NSC Olimpiyskiy). It is the most anticipated solar energy exhibition in Europe. For more than 30 […]

The draft laws with the relevant amendments to the Customs Code were registered by MP from the “Servant of the People” party Andriy Motovylovets. Draft Law No. 11343 provides for the exemption from value added tax of importation, transportation (shipment) in international postal and express mail to the customs territory of Ukraine under the customs […]

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, plans to mobilize approximately $345 million to build a new 350 MW wind power capacity in Ukraine, Energoreform reports. The initiative was presented among a number of other initiatives aimed at supporting Ukraine at the URC-2024 recovery conference in Berlin. Currently, the projects planned […]

The city authorities of Kryvyi Rih received solar panels through a grant back in 2023. However, the community did not have sufficient funding to complete and install them. This was reported by the Solar Energy Association of Ukraine on its Facebook page. As the Association explains, sometimes communities receive solar panels as a grant, but […]

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide a €60 million loan to the Ukrainian private company Lan-Oil LLC as part of its first project to finance the construction of a new private biofuel plant in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war. This was reported by AgroTimes with reference to the […]

The Copernicus Climate Change Service, funded by the European Commission, reported that May 2024 was the warmest May on record worldwide. The average air temperature was 0.65°C above the 1991-2020 average. This is the 12th consecutive month that the global average temperature has reached a record high for the month. This 12-month series is confirmed […]

On the eve of the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2024 – URC2024, Global 100% Re Ukraine held a preparatory event in Berlin dedicated to renewable energy issues in the context of Ukraine’s recovery, the German-Ukrainian Green Business Dialogue. The goal of the event is to bring together German and Ukrainian renewable energy companies and policy makers […]

Unlike in previous years, Ukraine’s energy system has suffered devastating losses this year and will not recover in time for winter. However, private businesses have some technologies that can help provide households and businesses with heat and electricity. To scale them up, we need competent and, most importantly, prompt government assistance. Participants of the press […]