The Cabinet of Ministers has exempted some businesses from electricity supply restrictions
Industrial and commercial consumers who meet at least 80% of their own energy needs from specified sources will not be subject to electricity supply restrictions.
The government has adopted a decision intended to stimulate the development of distributed generation and increase electricity imports.
Under the new rules, electricity supply restrictions will not apply to industrial and commercial consumers who obtain at least 80% of their electricity consumption from their own production, distributed generation, or imports.
This specifically refers to:
- electricity generated by the enterprise itself;
- supplies from distributed generation facilities within the territory of a single distribution system operator;
- imported electricity.
The mechanism will also apply to gas piston and gas turbine distributed generation facilities.
The Ministry of Energy expects that the new rules will encourage businesses to build their own generating capacity, particularly in regions where there is an electricity shortage.
Separately, the government anticipates an increase in electricity imports on market terms, which will also count toward the 80 percent criterion.
To implement this mechanism, procedures have been established for cooperation between NPC “Ukrenergo,” distribution system operators, electricity suppliers, electricity producers, and consumers.
In this way, the government aims to simultaneously encourage companies to invest in their own and local generation and to increase the volume of electricity available to the Ukrainian power grid.
This was reported on August 20 by the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine.
As a reminder, Ukraine and Lithuania have agreed on key areas of cooperation in the energy sector. Following these agreements, the countries signed a declaration on energy partnership.
