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 accumulated in Ukrainian UGS facilities, with 320 mcm of gas injected in the reporting week (+8.7% WoW).
  • The gas transmission system operators of Poland (GazSystem) and Ukraine (GTSOU) have agreed to temporarily double the firm capacity to Ukraine from 6.4 to 12.4 mcm per day.
  • In 2024, for the first time, Ukraine almost exhausted its 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.