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Europe is turning away from coal and Russian gas: an overview of the EU electricity sector

A new report by Ember analysts “European Electricity Sector Outlook 2025” reveals key achievements and trends that are contributing to the transformation of the EU energy landscape. The Ukrainian Wind Energy Association has prepared an overview of the document. Solar and wind overtake fossil fuels In 2024, solar energy production in the EU exceeded coal […]

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DTEK invests €140 million in energy storage systems

DTEK has selected Fluence Energy B.V., a subsidiary of Fluence Energy, Inc. to implement Ukraine’s first large-scale project to create a portfolio of battery-based energy storage systems. According to the company’s statement, Fluence and DTEK Renewables will build six energy storage facilities in different regions of Ukraine with a capacity of 20 MW to 50 […]

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Head of Global 100% RE Ukraine held a webinar for local communities: what was discussed

On Friday, January 24, Oleksandr Dombrovskyі, Chairman of the Board of Global 100% RE Ukraine and President of MHP Eco Energy, together with the Association of Small Cities of Ukraine, held a webinar on the digital platform Supermarket of Solutions for Communities. The meeting focused on how territorial communities can ensure their energy independence and […]

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Guaranteed Buyer paid almost UAH 58 billion to RES producers in 2024

According to Ukrainian Energy, citing the press service of the State Enterprise Guaranteed Buyer, renewable energy producers received the largest amount of money for electricity generated from renewable sources in 2024 – UAH 39.35 billion. UAH 17.47 billion was paid for 2023. In total, last year, UAH 57.95 billion was paid for renewable electricity purchased […]

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Committee on Energy Storage Installations Established at SEAU

The Solar Energy Association of Ukraine has launched the Committee on Energy Storage Facilities (ESF). The key tasks of the Committee will be: development of best practices for the integration of solar power plants with energy storage systems; development of off-grid solar power plants and autonomous energy storage facilities operating on a market basis; improvement […]

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The Cabinet of Ministers simplifies conditions for the construction of gas distributed generation

The Cabinet of Ministers has amended the resolution on the construction and deployment of gas piston and gas turbine units, as well as generators for the period of martial law. According to Ukrainian Energy, the Permanent Representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada, Taras Melnychuk, wrote about this on his telegram page. […]

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Guaranteed Buyer has announced the first “green” auction of the year. Solar quotas will be distributed

SE Guaranteed Buyer will hold the first auction this year to allocate a quota for supporting new capacity from alternative sources. 33 MW of solar power plants will be allocated. The auction is scheduled for March 13. According to the Guaranteed Buyer’s website, applications are accepted until March 12 inclusive. The auction will be held […]

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A new photovoltaic material – a “solar carpet” – has been created in Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has introduced an ultra-thin photovoltaic “paper” that can be applied to almost any surface. The new solar material is thinner than a human hair and provides 18 times more energy per unit weight than conventional glass and silicon panels. It can be used where the weight of conventional solar installations […]

“Green” energy is not a whim, but a serious tool”: what was discussed at the Global 100% RE Ukraine press conference

On Thursday, January 9, the Interfax-Ukraine agency hosted Global 100% RE Ukraine’s final press conference on “Sun, wind, biogas: how green energy will help Ukraine survive in 2025”. According to Oleksandr Dombrovskyi, President of MHP Eco Energy and Chairman of the Board of Global 100% RE Ukraine, the philosophy of a tightly centralized energy system, […]

Partisipants of Global 100% RE Ukraine press conference

Wind power set a number of records in 2024

The year 2024 was one of the milestones for the global development of renewable energy sources, and in a number of countries wind power continues to lead the way among the fastest growing electricity generation technologies, increasingly displacing fossil fuels from the market. On its Facebook page, the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association provides examples of […]

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Global 100% RE Ukraine, SEAU, UWEA and UABIO to hold a press conference on January 9 (Announcement)

On Thursday, January 9, at 11.00 a.m., the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency will host a press conference entitled @Sun, Wind, Biogas: How Green Energy Will Help Ukraine Survive in 2025@. Participants: Oleksandr Dombrovsky, Chairman of the Board of Global 100% RE Ukraine, President of MHP Eco Energy; Georgii Geletukha, Chairman of the […]

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In Germany, the cost of electricity has fallen below zero. The wind helped

According to EnergoBusiness, the phenomenal decline in electricity prices to negative values is becoming more and more common in Europe. The reason is developed wind power and strong winds, which leads to overproduction of wind farms. This time, prices fell below zero in Germany. It happened on the first trading day of the year. This […]

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Happy New Year!

Dear friends, colleagues, partners! We sincerely congratulate you on the New Year 2025! The past year has caused many challenges, but we, Ukraine and its energy sector, are standing! We are learning, developing, discovering new things and, despite all the difficulties, moving forward! In the year to come, we would like to wish you strength […]

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SEAU calls for review of electricity price caps

The Solar Energy Association of Ukraine, together with other RES market associations, has appealed to the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission to review the price caps on the day-ahead market, intraday market and balancing market. RES market participants point out that the constant shelling of critical energy infrastructure results in a lack of new […]

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Bioenergy Association of Ukraine joined the international project BioPart

UABIO has become a participant in the project “Biogas Partnership: Co-creating a Pathway to Stimulate Biogas Solutions in the Baltic Sea Region”. According to the Bioenergy Association, the project is funded by the Swedish Institute and aims to develop a network between Swedish, Polish, Ukrainian academia and the private sector. The goal of the project […]

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“The wind energy market is already quite mature”: an interview with the UWEA Chairman on the Ukrainian Energy Assembly channel

Andriy Konechenkov, Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association (UWEA), gave a long interview as part of the Energoblok project of the Ukrainian Energy Assembly. Together with the editor-in-chief of EnergoBusiness magazine Petro Bilyan, they discussed: The impact of the war on wind energy (and why wind energy has become more competitive). […]

Andriy Konechenkov

Round table on biomethane production: UABIO has published materials

A discussion on biomethane production in Ukraine was held online on December 20, 2024. Recently, the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine published its materials on its website. In particular, the following topics were discussed: Development of biomethane production in Ukraine. Problems and ways to solve them Information on biomethane projects launched in 2024. The first experience […]

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The NEURC increased Ukrenergo’s tariff for electricity transmission and reduced the tariff for dispatching

The national energy regulator NEURC has set the tariff for electricity transmission for NPC Ukrenergo at UAH 686.23/MWh (excluding VAT) from 1 January 2025. According to Energoreforma, the relevant decision was made at the NEURC meeting on 19 December. The new transmission tariff is 29.8% higher than the current one in 2024 (UAH 528.57/MWh). In […]

How biofuels are used in the EU – UABIO review

Semen Drakhnev, an expert of the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine, prepared a detailed and comprehensive overview of the state of production and consumption of biofuels for transport in the EU for the SAF platform. The review is based on a report by the US Department of Agriculture. In particular, the material states that in 2023, […]

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UABIO Head Georgii Geletukha: ‘Biomethane producers want clear and understandable rules in all areas’

Georgii Geletukha, Chairman of the Board of the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine, gave an exclusive interview to Energoreforma, an energy project of Interfax-Ukraine. Among other things, he spoke about: needs to change calorific value standards; prospects for biomethane exports; problems of ‘green’ auctions and why bioenergy is not interested in them; conditions necessary for the […]

Georgii Geletukha