The Tender Commission has approved the tender documentation for prospective participants, First Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal announced.

According to him, the Commission has officially approved the rules and requirements governing participation in the tender. Potential investors will now have 20 days to submit comments and proposals.

The tender provides for the commissioning of 1,505 MW of new highly flexible generation capacity. It applies exclusively to new generating units that have not previously been in operation.

The facilities are planned to be built in the regions experiencing the greatest electricity shortages: Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Chernihiv, Kyiv regions, and the city of Kyiv.

As Denys Shmyhal noted, each facility must have a guaranteed capacity of at least 10 MW, be equipped with Level II physical protection, be capable of operating independently in the event of a loss of external grid power (black-start capability), and have a guaranteed operational lifetime of at least 20 years or 100,000 operating hours.

The Minister stressed that the Government will provide investors with a mechanism to compensate for potential differences in electricity prices during morning and evening peak demand periods.

In addition, work is underway to introduce a war-risk insurance mechanism covering damage to or destruction of equipment through the de-risking mechanism developed by the Energy Community Secretariat.

“We expect the entire planned capacity to be commissioned by the end of 2027. This will become one of the key elements in the development of distributed generation and the strengthening of Ukraine’s energy security,” Denys Shmyhal added.