The European Union has provided an additional EUR 30 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, bringing its total contribution to the Fund to EUR 279 million. This was announced by First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal.

“The funds provided through this financial mechanism help us restore energy infrastructure damaged by Russian attacks, procure critically needed equipment for our energy companies and ensure reliable energy supply, primarily for critical infrastructure,” Denys Shmyhal stressed.

Thanks to contributions from international partners to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, several regions of Ukraine have received essential equipment worth nearly EUR 2 million to restore and strengthen energy infrastructure.

Contributions from the United Kingdom supported the procurement of transformers and other energy equipment for the Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk and Vinnytsia regions.

Swiss support enabled the procurement of essential energy equipment for the Dnipropetrovsk region.

In July, the Ukraine Energy Support Fund received grant contributions from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. The total amount of contributions reached EUR 180 million.

First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal said that, according to preliminary assessments, Ukraine’s power system successfully passed through a period of record August heat without the introduction of scheduled power outages.

Ukraine continues to strengthen the energy autonomy of healthcare facilities. In particular, the Regional Clinical Medical Centre for Socially Dangerous Diseases of the Poltava Regional Council has launched its own electricity generation.

The Centre provides specialised medical care to patients with tuberculosis, HIV infection, viral hepatitis and other infectious diseases. It conducts laboratory diagnostics and X-ray examinations, provides medical consultations and ensures multidisciplinary patient support. Approximately 250 people visit the facility every day.

Twelve units of energy equipment, with a total weight of 6.2 tonnes, have been delivered from the warehouses of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine’s emergency energy assistance hubs to critical infrastructure facilities in the Khmelnytskyi region.

Ukraine received diesel generators for backup power supply and oil-filled power transformers from its German partners to support the repair and restoration of electricity grids.

We thank our German partners for this assistance.

Estonia and Spain have made new contributions to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, providing a combined total of more than EUR 55,500.

In particular, the Fund received EUR 25,000 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, bringing Estonia’s total contribution to more than EUR 2.6 million.

A further EUR 30,600 was contributed by the Embassy of Spain in Ukraine under the “Urgent Energy Solidarity with Ukraine” project through the Association for the Promotion of Ukraine’s Development. Spain’s total contribution to the Fund now exceeds EUR 4.5 million.

- As a result of hostilities and attacks on energy facilities, some consumers in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson, Sumy and Kharkiv regions remain temporarily without electricity.

- Restoration works are ongoing wherever the security situation allows. Energy workers are working around the clock to restore electricity supply to Ukrainian households as quickly as possible.

At the initiative of the Ministry of Energy, the Government adopted a decision aimed at improving the management of available electricity capacity and enhancing the resilience of the power system in emergency situations. This was announced by First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal.

The decision provides for improvements to the procedure for determining and applying electricity consumption limits, taking into account seasonal patterns in power system operation and electricity consumption levels.

Luxembourg has made an additional contribution of EUR 8 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund. This brings the country’s total contribution to the Fund to EUR 30 million.