As part of a visit to Japan, the Ukrainian delegation headed by Energy Minister German Galushchenko met with the leadership of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The Minister thanked Japan and JICA in particular for financial and technical assistance to the Ukrainian energy sector, including the gas turbines and transformers provided. He emphasized that the Japanese side was one of the leaders in providing assistance in this area.

The Minister of Energy informed the Japanese side about the state of the Ukrainian energy system after the recent russian massive attacks and familiarized them with the needs of the energy sector.

"The key tasks are to increase generation capacity as quickly as possible before winter and replace damaged autotransformers to ensure the stability of electricity transmission. The most efficient way to increase generation is to install gas turbines and gas piston units. It is also crucial to provide high-capacity mobile generating sets," said German Galushchenko.

On the outcome of the meeting, it was agreed to supply more than 100 large generators with a total capacity of over 130 MW to Ukraine.

It should be noted that in February 2024, JICA and the Government of Ukraine signed an agreement to provide grant assistance in the amount of up to 15.8 million Japanese yen for the Emergency Recovery Program (Phase 3). The grant assistance agreements for the first and second phases of this program were signed in the spring of 2023 (22.44 million yen and 53.072 million yen, respectively).

For the needs of our energy sector, Japan has already transferred autotransformers, gas turbines, protective structures, generators, large transformer substations and power equipment to restore destroyed power facilities, automotive equipment, cables, welding machines, batteries, transformers of various types, towers, and complete transformer substations. In addition, Japan provided equipment to help eliminate the effects of the floods caused by the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam.