The platform brings together existing support programmes for businesses and households to help them ensure autonomous and backup power supply, develop their own generation capacity and install energy storage systems.

Today, we are highlighting the 5–7–9% Loans for Cogeneration programme. 

More than 50 tonnes of energy equipment have been delivered from the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine’s emergency energy assistance hubs to Khmelnytskyi, Poltava, Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Chernihiv and Mykolaiv regions with support from the Netherlands.

The assistance includes diesel generators to provide backup power to district heating facilities and medical institutions, as well as power transformers, insulators and portable generators.

- Overnight and in the morning, Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack on energy infrastructure. Power plants, electricity transmission facilities and distribution infrastructure in Kyiv, Kyiv Region and Kharkiv Region came under attack.

- As a result of the targeted attacks, some consumers in the city of Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Chernihiv regions remain temporarily without electricity.

- As a result of hostilities and Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, some consumers in Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Chernihiv regions remain temporarily without electricity.

- As soon as the security situation permits, energy workers begin restoring damaged equipment to restore electricity to Ukrainian homes as quickly as possible.

- Yesterday, two energy workers were injured when a Russian drone struck a vehicle carrying energy workers in the city of Sloviansk. The injured are receiving the necessary medical assistance.

The platform features support programmes for businesses and households that help ensure autonomous and backup power supply, develop their own generation capacity and install energy storage systems.

Today, we are highlighting the following programme: Zero-Interest Loan for Power Generation Equipment 

Under the decision, private natural gas production companies will be entitled to export up to 15% of their own monthly production. The proceeds from these exports will be directed towards protecting gas production facilities against Russian attacks and strengthening Ukraine’s defence capabilities.

Thanks to contributions from international partners to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, several regions received essential equipment worth more than EUR 5.5 million to restore and strengthen energy infrastructure.

The deliveries included transformers, diesel generators, vehicles, protective equipment and other supplies. Energy companies in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Odesa regions received the equipment.

We thank Iceland, the European Union, Sweden, Germany and all our partners for their support for Ukraine’s energy sector!

- As a result of hostilities, some consumers in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv regions remain temporarily without electricity.

- Where the security situation permits, repair crews are already working to restore power supply. Energy workers are doing everything possible to restore electricity to Ukrainian homes as quickly as possible.

- Due to adverse weather conditions, 63 settlements in Ternopil, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytskyi regions remain without electricity. Repair crews are working to restore power supply.

This week, Chernihiv Region received a new batch of generators provided under a government programme of the Republic of Latvia. First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal announced this.

“This year alone, the Latvian Government has supplied Chernihiv Region with 30 generators with capacities ranging from 80 to 650 kW, and another 30 generators are expected. This is a significant contribution to strengthening the energy resilience of this frontline region ahead of winter,” he stressed.

During a working visit to Chernihiv Region, First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal visited several energy facilities in the region that are regularly targeted by Russian attacks.

“The main focus is on key electrical substations that ensure electricity distribution and transmission. The enemy systematically attacks them. Repair crews work around the clock and restore damaged equipment as soon as the security situation allows. We thank energy workers for their hard work!” Denys Shmyhal emphasised.