April 27 – May 3

  • On May 1, the Russian Federation carried out a massive drone attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, resulting in power outages in several regions, including Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kharkiv, Rivne, and Cherkasy, as well as damage to equipment at a Naftogaz Group gas production facility in the Kharkiv region.
  • Of the 9 GW of generating capacity damaged this winter, about 4 GW has already been restored, according to the Ministry of Energy.
  • On April 28, following scheduled preventive maintenance, a power unit at the Khmelnytskyi NPP was reconnected to the system. This is the first unit to return online as part of the 2026 maintenance campaign.
  • The government will allocate 3 billion UAH from the state budget’s reserve fund to advance funding for 247 new block-modular boiler houses with a total capacity of 1.3 GW – Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko.
  • To foster implementation of the Regional Energy Resilience Plans, the government is launching a financial support mechanism that will allow businesses to secure loans at 10% per annum (loan amounts ranging from EUR 1 to 25 million, for up to 5 years) for the development of distributed generation, with the state compensating for preferential interest; the National Development Agency will administer the program through authorized banks.
  • The government extended the Public Service Obligation (PSO) in the electricity market, maintaining electricity supply to household consumers at a regulated price of 4.32 UAH/kWh until October 31, 2026.
  • The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the performance results and profit distribution of the largest state-owned energy companies for 2025: Energoatom will allocate 50% of its profit (UAH 9.34 billion out of UAH 18.68 billion) to the budget, Ukrhydroenergo – 30% (UAH 6.28 billion), Naftogaz – 30% (UAH 969.89 million out of UAH 3.23 billion), and GTS Operator of Ukraine – 50% (UAH 4.218 billion). The remaining funds will be used by the companies to finance fuel purchases, infrastructure restoration, debt servicing, and production development.
  • In Ukraine, 600 MW of energy storage facilities have already been connected, and technical specifications have been issued for 1.4 GW of such capacity, according to Ukrenergo CEO Vitaliy Zaychenko.
  • As of the end of April, courts had frozen the accounts of 69 district heating companies due to gas debts, according to the Association of Ukrainian Cities.
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