“Today, a renewable energy sector is almost not developed in Ukraine,” the Energy sector’s head of the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) Oleksiy Orzhel says. The expert commented on the results of the round table “The status of implementation of the National Action Plan for renewable energy for the period until 2020: parliamentary control”, which was attended by people’s deputies, representatives of the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving, relevant ministries, organizations, the EBRD and market participants, this way.
“Two years ago, the National Action Plan for Renewable Energy for the period until 2020 was adopted. According to this Plan, Ukraine has committed to achieve the proportion of energy obtained from renewable sources at 11% in the final energy consumption in 2020. However, current development rates of this sector is extremely low. Only 29.5 MW of facilities were introduced over the last year,” Oleksiy Orzhel said and added that the development of this area would make Ukraine closer to energy independence, so it was necessary to intensify efforts to achieve the desired goal.
According to Oleksiy Orzhel, the global trend that will grow with time is a generation from renewable energy sources. At this stage, this area is the most progressive and environmentally friendly energy sector.
“The main task that we have to perform as time passed is to maintain the predictable and stable business environment, follow the renewable energy course and continue forming a comfortable investment climate. There are already established grounds for that: insensitive laws and decisions aimed at promoting the “green” energy. Now we should concentrate on ensuring their performance,” the expert stressed.