News

Since 2018, the USAID Energy Security Project (ESP) has been supporting the Government of Ukraine (GoU) in aligning the country’s energy markets (primarily, their overall setup and core principles of functioning) with the ones of the European Union. Among other support, USAID ESP has been helping GoU address the pending transposition of the EU legislation (acquis communautaire) pertinent to the electricity and gas sectors and ensuring its further effective implementation in Ukraine.

USAID Energy Security Project (ESP) has launched a collaborative effort with the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU) to integrate the principles of gender equality and social inclusivity into the security and civil defense sectors. These principles are considered one of the most important aspects of the SESU’s key activities, in addition to emergency response and disaster management, rescue operations, rescue team management, and the overall organization of civil defense, emergency protection, and emergency prevention.

On May 16, 2023, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provided 105 diesel generators to the state railway carrier Ukrzaliznytsia JSC. This assistance, worth $2.7 million, will help Ukrzaliznytsia, one of Ukraine's electricity Distribution System Operators, to back up the power supply to more than 100,000 consumers and contribute to uninterrupted passenger and cargo transportation within Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Energy Security Project (ESP), has delivered 667 generators of various capacities for the needs of local councils, district heating utilities, and educational and medical institutions in thirty-four settlements in 14 oblasts of Ukraine. This $6.2 million USAID assistance made it possible to supply heat and electricity to the Ukrainian people during the 2022-2023 heating season.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the Energy Security Project, transferred 137 generators worth about UAH 40 mln to the Communal Utility Kyivteploenergo (CU KTE).

On April 28, 2023, the long-awaited draft Law on Prevention of Abuse in Wholesale Energy Markets (No. 5322), after a lengthy refinement, was approved by the Energy and Utilities Committee and recommended for adoption by the Verkhovna Rada in the second reading, and as a whole. The draft law was registered yet two years ago, on April 1, 2021, approved by the Rada in the first reading on September 20, 2022, and, until now, has been in preparation under a shortened procedure.

In response to the challenges of the war, the Department of Energy Management and Technical Diagnostics of the Ivano-Frankivsk Technical University of Oil and Gas (IFTUOG) began to design various types of mobile power stations for the needs of Ukrainians who live in the complicated condition in the front-line areas of Ukraine.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced its intent to provide up to $25 million to the Energy Community, one of USAID’s longest and most important partners in encouraging energy sector reforms and promoting European energy security.

USAID plans to contribute to the Energy Community’s Ukraine Energy Support Fund, where USAID Energy Security Project (ESP) is the...

During February-April 2023, USAID Energy Security Project (ESP) delivered 48 mobile boiler houses (MBHs) to 11 oblasts in Ukraine to back up heat and hot water supplies in case of damage or destruction of existing heating facilities.