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USAID ESP Helps NEURC to Enhance Its Capacity to Implement REMIT
Ukraine's energy markets require considerable reforms to ensure their transparency and independence, strengthening energy security and paving the way for Ukraine’s integration with European markets. The Regulation on the Integrity and Transparency of the Electricity Wholesale Market (REMIT—EU Regulation 1227/2011) is an integral part of this reform.
The REMIT concept is new for Ukraine and...
October 31, 2023
USAID ESP helps the National Energy Regulator to calculate fines transparently
The USAID Energy Security Project (ESP), in cooperation with the team of the international audit and consulting company Ernst & Young, conducted a four-day training for employees of the regional offices and the central office of the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission (NEURC) to gain in-depth knowledge and skills in applying the new Procedure (Methodology) for Calculating Fines Imposed by NEURC (starting now referred to as the "Methodology").
October 27, 2023
Ukraine’s energy sector “on the road” to electricity market coupling
On October 25th, the USAID Energy Security Project (ESP) and EPEX SPOT presented to Ukraine’s energy sector and international partners a detailed Roadmap for electricity market coupling with the European Union (EU) markets and Moldova, as part of Ukraine’s electricity market reform.
October 13, 2023
USAID helps Ukraine improve domestic gas extraction
On October 11-12th, the USAID Energy Security Project (ESP) hosted a two-day Methanol Suppliers and Traders Coordination Meeting to establish a sustainable long-term approach to supply methanol from the European Union (EU) to Ukraine and improve Ukraine's domestic gas extraction.
October 10, 2023
Generators provided by USAID last winter will back up 41 Kyivteploenergo boiler houses
Last winter, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) transferred 137 generators worth about 40 million UAH to CU Kyivteploenergo (KTE), helping this Communal Utility to get ready for the first challenging winter during the war.
October 7, 2023
The USAID Energy Security Project supports local communities’ plans to introduce energy management
The USAID Energy Security Project (ESP) and Khmelnytska Oblast Military Administration conducted a roundtable on October 5, 2023, to discuss energy efficiency and how to introduce an energy management system in Khmelnytska Oblast, as well as review the efforts of local communities to develop energy efficiency projects under the Regional Energy Efficiency Program (after this - the Program) in Khmelnytska Oblast.
October 5, 2023
On the way to REMIT implementation: the Regulator approved the Procedure for Registration of Wholesale Energy Market Participants
The USAID Energy Security Project (ESP) welcomes the completion of the adoption by the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission (NEURC) of the priority group of regulatory acts aimed at implementing the European Regulation on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency (REMIT).
October 4, 2023
Energy sector companies received technical expertise on the Ukrainian energy market coupling with the EU
On September 29th, the USAID Energy Security Project (ESP), jointly with EPEX SPOT, conducted the 5th and final workshop on the Roadmap and Capacity Building on Electricity Market Coupling Activity.