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Bohdan Serebrennikov
Manager on consultancy and analytical services
Energy Transparency Index 2020: International Dimension
In 2020, we present the results of the first such research for the three Eastern Partnership countries – Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.
Bohdan Serebrennikov
Manager on consultancy and analytical services
International Energy Transparency Index 2020: sector openness test – positive or negative?
Transparency is one of the key prerequisites for effective economic and market development, open competition, fair pricing, and formulation of balanced policy and regulation. Better information openness is also a safeguard against corruption.
Anastasia Synytsia
DiXi Group Junior Analyst
Nord Stream 2 and sanctions: what to expect?
Political consensus is a shaky phenomenon, but beginning from December of last year the matter of sanctions against the Russian gas pipeline project became an exemplary implementation of bipartisan and bicameral consensus in the United States. So, what does the sanction “package” consist of now and what does it mean for Nord Stream 2?
Daryna Kulaha
DiXi Group Junior Analyst
The Decarbonization Fund may become a powerful instrument, but all depends on the revenue
Overall, the Energy Ministry’s proposal is essentially a step in the right direction, because it actually has the purpose of spending the greenhouse gas emission charge specifically on reducing emissions of those very greenhouse gases, thus performing a stimulating role in the transition to the “green” economy.
Olha Polunina, Rimma Kushtym
DiXi Group Manager for Sustainable Development, DiXi Group consultant
Would the parliament block reform of industrial pollution control?
The government draft law states that the BATM conclusions approval procedure is set by the Cabinet of Ministers. The alternative draft law proposes to define the BATM conclusions approval procedure in a separate law of Ukraine...
Roman Nitsovych, Serhii Yevtushok
DiXi Group Research Director, DiXi Group External Analyst
Reform of the Coal Industry is Once Again on the Path of Subsidizing
There is a clear tendency to reduce the volume of production, increase the cost of extracted coal, which in turn leads to unprofitable state-owned mines, which accumulate debts for years...
Daryna Kulaha
Junior analyst DiXi Group
The government’s intentions to postpone EU environmental requirements are unlikely to receive the foreign partners’ support
The Ministry of Energy has recently resumed work on the implementation of the National Emissions Reduction Plan for Large Combustion Plants (the NERP), but soon proposed to postpone its implementation.
Olha Polunina
Sustainable Development Manager
Approved reporting forms are a step towards greater transparency in production
The government has finally approved reporting forms for extractive companies developed, inter alia, with the participation of DiXi Group experts.
Daryna Kulaha
Junior analyst DiXi Group
No effective solutions on debts to “green” generation have been proposed yet
The government has actually held the Regulator and the transmission system operator fully responsible for resolving the situation
Olena Pavlenko
DiXi Group President
Halting Nord Stream 2 must become a part of the EU’s “single voice”
The tragic poisoning of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny changed the stance of the German political elite. The insistence on purely German interests has weakened, and today, Germany is more open to forming a common European stance as far as interaction and communication with Russia are concerned.
Roman Nitsovych
DiXi Group Research Director
What the new law on “green” energy “fell short” of
It seemed that the long-running “serial” of political discussions between the government and investors in renewable energy has ended. But in fact, the new law may not solve the problem after all, as there are at least five reasons for that.
Roman Nitsovych, Research Director, DiXi Group
Darina Kulaga, expert consultant
Only an increase in the transmission tariff will not solve the crisis in the electricity market
The tariff increase will not affect electricity prices for household and small non-household consumers, but will be felt for industry and other consumer groups. The main purpose of this step is to ensure stable revenues for timely payments to producers of electricity from renewable sources.
Bohdan Serebrennikov
Manager on consultancy and analytical services
The current electricity market is not yet the model we are striving for
The current market, with many regulatory price caps, unbalanced RES support policy, non-market prices for the population and an existing mechanism of assignment of special obligations (ASO), is not like the model being built in the EU.
On the way to the gas market. What changes the regulator’s decision and what needs to be done?
National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission (NEURC) adopted the decision simplifying the procedure for changing the gas supplier for household consumers
Ukrainian model of Public Service Obligations significantly distorts the electricity market
Since electricity prices are the same for the entire population throughout Ukraine, the current PSO model protects not only economically vulnerable but also wealthy consumers, which seems economically unjustified. Moreover, prices for households have not changed since March 1, 2017.
Lack of prerequisites for unbundling of electricity bills
However, current tariff, even its upper rate, does not reflect real costs incurred for the production, procurement and supply of electricity to households, since the country uses hidden cross-subsidization of the population through the mechanism of Public Service Obligations (PSO).
Roman Nitsovych, DiXi Group Research Director
Anastasiia Synytsia, Analytical Department Trainee
26 ТРАВНЯ 2020
European Green Deal and Ukrainian energy: quo vadis?
During the operation of the united Ministry of Energy, it was not possible to synchronize the climate and energy directions. For more than 6 months the government and key participants of the renewable energy market have been unable to agree on a solution to the industry’s problems.
Decision concerning Nord Stream 2: the final victory still needs to be fought for
The decision of German regulatory authority, BNetzA, concerning the legal framework in which Nord Stream 2 can operate represents an interim victory of Ukraine.
How steady is the trend of declining fuel prices?
Pricing in Ukraine’s retail market for petroleum products draws close attention from both consumers and public authorities. Telling facts in this sense are meetings of the President with representatives of filling station chains or the AMCU’s in-depth analysis of actions of petroleum products market participants, which the agency started in January of this year.
Oil producers unite before the danger of “execution”
If implemented, the preliminary agreement of OPEC+ countries will allow to somewhat stabilize oil prices in the nearest few months, but it remains to be seen whether it will restore the balance of demand and supply in the market.
EIA: a problem or an indispensable element of sustainable development?
Back in 2016, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the Environmental Impact Assessment Law. From the very beginning, the implementation of this legislative act has bumped into obstacles: the law was vetoed after an appeal by the Association of Pig Breeders of Ukraine, whose representatives believed that it would bring their industry to a standstill.
Coronavirus and systemic imbalances of the electricity market
Today’s crisis in the electricity market is not just a concurrence of circumstances caused by a seasonal factor and by quarantine restrictions. These factors vividly illustrated, and stretched almost to its limits, the vulnerability of the system in which Ukraine’s electricity market functions in its present form.
A “perfect storm” in the oil market
Today’s situation in the global oil market is a “perfect storm” for oil producing countries, but for countries importing petroleum products, it presents an opportunity to stock oil on the cheap.
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- Weekly analytical report March 29 – April, 4, 2021
- Weekly analytical report March 22 – 28, 2021
- DiXi Group Annual Report 2020
- DiXi Group proposals on the new Subsoil Code
- Weekly analytical report March 15 – 21, 2021
- Weekly analytical report March 8 – 14, 2021
- Weekly analytical report March 1 – 7, 2021
- Weekly analytical report February 22 – 26, 2021
- Weekly analytical report February 15 – 19, 2021
- Weekly analytical report February 8 – 12, 2021
- POSITION PAPER “The return to regulated gas prices for households is a step backwards in the market reform”
- Weekly analytical report February 1 – 5, 2021
- Weekly analytical report December 26 – 29, 2021
- Roadmap for implementation of the recommendations proposed in the DiXi Group study “Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in the extractive industries. Practice and problematic issues of application”
- INVESTMENT PLANS OF THE EU: opportunities for Ukraine in the area of the European Green Deal implementation
- Weekly analytical report December 19 – 25, 2021
- DiXi Group calls on the government and extractive companies to publish the essential terms and conditions of the signed PSAs
- Energy Security Bulletin (pilot issue)
- Weekly analytical report December 11 – 19, 2021
- GAS MARKET FOR UKRAINIANS: User’s Manual
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in the extractive sector. Practice and problems in implementation
- Weekly analytical report December 14 – 20, 2020
- Energy Transparency Index 2020: International edition
- Weekly analytical report December 7 – 13, 2020
- POSITION PAPER “Changes in regulation of housing and utility services in the draft laws No. 2458 and No. 4383”
- Weekly analytical report December 1 – 7, 2020
- Weekly analytical report November 23 – 29, 2020
- DiXi Group Alert: situation around the NEURC jeopardizes independence and sustainable operation of the Regulator
- Weekly analytical report November 16 – 22, 2020
- Weekly analytical report November 9 – 15, 2020
- Weekly analytical report November 2 – 8, 2020
- Production of electricity from renewable sources: changes in the support scheme and financial challenges (POSITION PAPER)
- Weekly analytical report October 26 – November 1, 2020
- Why is transparency and open data in the extractive industry important? (infographics)
- Weekly analytical report October 12 – 18, 2020
- Weekly analytical report October 4 – 9, 2020
- Weekly analytical report September 28 – October 4, 2020
- Weekly analytical report September 21-27, 2020
- Weekly analytical report September 14-20, 2020
- Weekly analytical report September 7-13, 2020
- Weekly analytical report August 31- September 6, 2020
- Weekly analytical report August 10-30, 2020
- Weekly analytical report August 3-9, 2020
- Playing the long game: how civil society can lead change
- Weekly analytical report 20 – 26 July, 2020
- Weekly analytical report 13 – 19 July, 2020
- Weekly analytical report 6 – 12 July, 2020
- Weekly analytical report 29 June – 3 July, 2020
- Weekly analytical report 9 – 14 June, 2020
- Weekly analytical report 25 – 31 May, 2020
- Weekly analytical report 20 – 26 May, 2020
- Weekly analytical report 6 – 12 May, 2020
- Annual Report 2019
- Enhancing Transparency of the Energy Sector through the EITI Implementation: Success Stories of Ukraine and Germany
