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Russian War Against Ukraine: Energy Dimension | DiXi Group Alert – weekly review
17.06.2025
June 9-15
On 15 June, a massive combined attack in the Kremenchuk community damaged an energy infrastructure facility and a power line. Industry media, citing Russian sources, reported that the Kremenchuk oil refinery was targeted.
The Russian occupation administration at Zaporizhzhia NPP informed the IAEA of an illegal project to pump water from the Dnipro River into the cooling pond to maintain a water level sufficient to cool first one and then two operating units of the plant.
In the seven months of its active operation, the Decarbonisation Fund of Ukraine enabled investments worth UAH 428.9 million in 36 energy efficiency projects.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine published a draft decision on the approval of Ukraine’s Second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC2) to the Paris Agreement. Ukraine aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 68-73% from 1990 levels in 2035.
Electricity imports to Ukraine increased by 2% week-on-week to 60.9 GWh, while exports increased by 9% to 33.8 GWh.
The monthly Base BCM (bilateral contracts market) index for June remained at UAH 4,449.4/MWh (+14.5% compared to May).
The average hourly price of electricity on the day-ahead market (DAM Base index) increased to 4,904.5 UAH/MWh (+4.5%) over the week; the volume of electricity sold on the Ukrainian DAM decreased to 580.5 GWh (-1.6%).
“This year, Ukrenergo will launch the first monthly auctions for the allocation of interconnection capacity with Slovakia and Romania.
During the reporting week, physical gas imports from Hungary totalled 61.7 mcm (+11.8% WoW), from Poland – 36.4 mcm (+6.1%), from Slovakia – t26.4 mcm (+11.3%) and from Moldova – 0.6 mcm (-1.5%).
As of 14 June, 2.64 bcm of gas were accumulatedin Ukrainian UGS facilities, with 320 mcm of gas injected in the reporting week (+8.7% WoW).
The gas transmission system operators of Poland (Gaz–System) and Ukraine (GTSOU) have agreed to temporarilydouble the firm capacity to Ukraine –from 6.4 to 12.4 mcm per day.
In 2024, for the first time, Ukraine almost exhaustedits annual export quota for bioethanol to the EU: 99.3 thousand tonnes were supplied out of the 100 thousand tonnes limit stipulated by the Association Agreement.