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On July 6, 2023, the USAID Energy Security Project (ESP) held a roundtable, “Energy markets: a pathway to standardized trading.” The event was dedicated to the current status and challenges of the wholesale energy markets in Ukraine, the market survey results, best international practices of energy trade surveillance in organized and OTC markets, and USAID ESP recommendations on the next steps to develop the markets. Watch the video to learn the four pillars for improving energy products.

Since the start of the war, USAID has provided more than 1,000 power generators to communities across Ukraine, including in hard-hit oblasts such as Chernihiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Mykolaiv. It helps Ukrainians, including students at this school in Chernihiv, have electricity and heating despite russia’s continuing strikes on critical infrastructure.

USAID delivered 30 excavators to 24 cities across Ukraine - including Odesa and Lviv - to repair heating and hot water networks damaged by russia’s attacks. It helps ensure residents have heating and hot water during the cold winter.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) delivered 31 generators to Chernihiv city, enough to provide a backup power source to all of the city’s public schools. The generators help ensure that 13,000 schoolchildren have electricity and heating at school despite Russia’s continued attacks. In total, USAID has delivered 1,415 generators to 22 oblasts across Ukraine, part of a broader U.S. Government effort to help Ukrainians get through the winter.

USAID delivered 60 heated tents to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU) through its Energy Security Project, which can provide emergency shelter to 1,800 people at any given time. The tents, worth $6.5 million, each come equipped with a 160 kW generator, LED lights and electricity kits, an environmental control unit, and subflooring, allowing people to stay warm and dry and to charge their devices.

In February 2023, Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman announced during her visit to Kyiv that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) had provided the Government of Ukraine with a mobile gas turbine power plant purchased from General Electric (GE). The mobile power plant was manufactured in the United States by GE’s Gas Power business with a total output capacity of approximately 28MW, enough to provide the equivalent electricity to at least 100,000 homes. It will help Ukraine...

Ukraine’s women work daily to help the country stand strong during the war. USAID stands with them. Watch and share the video about six of Ukraine’s women heroes and follow USAID/Ukraine’s “New Pages of Ukrainian Heroism” campaign on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to celebrate women helping Ukraine stand firm.

Bringing warmth in wartime: Olena Popko is an energy worker helping write the new history of Ukrainian heroism. She heads the capital assets division of CU Kyivteploenergo. Following each missile strike on a Kyivteploenergo facility, she and her team race to the site to document the damage and create a plan for making repairs.

"I feel a sense of responsibility. Every person in Ukraine’s energy sector feels this" says Olena. "It’s extremely important to keep the energy system stable during a...

In March 2023, representatives of heat supply companies from Ternopil, Lutsk, Odesa, Kropyvnytskyi, Zaporizhzhia, Bucha, and Vasylkiv were trained on how to use specialized emergency vehicles procured by USAID through the Energy Security Project.

It is part of USAID’s assistance, worth almost 4 million US dollars, designed to help Ukrainian energy companies quickly respond to emergencies in the heating sector and restore critical infrastructure facilities damaged by russian shelling.

On May 16, 2023, USAID, through the USAID Energy Security Project, 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.

USAID, through the USAID Energy Security Project (ESP), has provided communal utility 'Kharkiv heat networks', two emergency vehicles worth about $396,4 thousand, industrial salt, and excavators. The equipment will help utility workers promptly repair district heating networks damaged by russia's strikes on critical infrastructure.

In April 2022, Ukraine lost access to its salt mines in Soledar due to extensive Russian shelling. USAID, through the USAID Energy Security Project, helped to create a new supply chain for industrial salt to support Ukrainian heating utilities.

The USAID Energy Security Project (ESP) has provided communal utility 'Kharkiv heat networks', two emergency vehicles worth about $396,4 thousand. The equipment helps utility workers promptly repair district heating networks damaged by russia's strikes on critical infrastructure.

In July 2023, USAID Administrato Samantha Power visited the Kyivteploenergo's Combined Heat and Power Plant-5 to learn how US-funded assistance helped Ukraine survive the winter and reaffirm the U.S. Government's strong commitment to keep Ukraine's energy infrastructure functional despite Russia's attacks.

Oleksii started a shift, and at 8:00 a.m., the air alert was already on. There was a massive explosion. One transformer, the second one. He tried to rescue the rest with his colleagues to avoid more significant damage. The USAID Energy Security Project (ESP) supports the Ukrainian soldiers of light - the energy workers.

Senior Electrician Romesh witnessed a missile arrive, hitting the engine room. All the equipment turned off, the light went out, and there was an intense fire in the engine room. He did his best to protect and save the equipment.

There is somebody behind every working socket and shining lightbulb.
Who are the energy specialists and what do they do? How many people make sure we have light, heat, and electricity? Which companies form the basis of a particular area of the energy sector? We will tell you all these things through our educational series,
"Careers in energy are cool!"

Who can benefit from this video? High school graduates, prospective students, and their parents, school teachers and university professors,...

What is energy and how it is generated?
Where does energy come from?
Renewable vs non-renewable energy - what's the difference?
Why is energy important to humanity?
Answers to these and some other questions are in the first episode of online course "Careers in energy are cool!"

How is energy sector structured in Ukraine?
What makes up the energy market?
How do power, gas, hot water, and heating reach our homes?
Watch the 2nd episode of online course "Careers in energy are cool!" to find out more.

From previous episodes, you have learned what energy is and where it comes from, what types of energy exist, and how light, gas, and heating reach our homes. However, if you start talking to friends, one of them will definitely say, that professions in this field are dangerous, lowly, and not paid well. Well, such thoughts arise due to lack of information. In the 3rd episode of online course “Careers in energy are cool!" we will tell you how things really are.

Almost everyone has seen a drone fly, or even launched one yourself. Robots are not only characters in cartoons and fantasy movies, but also high-tech assistants at energy companies.
In the 4th episode of our online course “Careers in energy are cool!" you will find out what energy innovations are there in Ukraine and worldwide, how drones and robots are used in energy sector, what is a "smart network", “energy storage” technology, “artificial intelligence” and "digital twins”.

If you are curious about what professions exist, what you should know about the specifics of the energy sector, watch the 5th episode of our online course “Careers in energy are cool!" You will find out
what the energy engineering profession is about, advantages of working in energy and workplace safety rules.

Do you know why it is important to engage more women in the energy sector? Companies with more women in governing bodies perform better financially and have a lower risk of fraud within the organization. Companies with 30 percent female executives have a net profitability 15 percent higher than the profitability of companies where there are no women in top management! How do you like this indicator? Gender balance contributes to the development of enterprises and the increase in productivity....

Classical energy education: what’s the best place to get it?
What subjects should you choose for the external independent evaluation if your goal is the energy specialty?
What new specialties are emerging in the industry and where can they be mastered?

In the 7th episode of our online course “Careers in energy are cool!" we are telling what education will enable you to get a job in the energy sector and which higher education institutions of Ukraine train future specialists for the...

What internship programs are available?
Where should you look for information on job openings in energy?
Interviews with real power engineers

Answers to these and other questions related to the topic are in the 8th episode of our on-line course “Careers in energy are cool!"

Energy security is, in essence, the confidence that there will be as much energy for daily consumption as needed. That is, there will be no shortage and we will be able to access fuel and energy of high enough quality.
What can jeopardize a country's energy security?
How does the expansion of energy sources affect Ukraine's energy sector?
What is Ukraine's energy development strategy until 2035?
Answers to these and other questions related to the topic are in the 9th episode of our on-line...

By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services. 1.2 billion people do not have access to electricity – that’s every fifth inhabitant of the earth! It is necessary to develop technologies and conduct research in the field of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology.

The 10th episode of our online course, "Careers in energy are cool!" is about these and other challenges and what we can do to cope with them.