Prime Minister: Programmes have been launched to help citizens and businesses become more energy independent and install alternative energy sources

The first loan to a business for the installation of a solar power plant and the first loans to individuals for the installation of alternative energy sources have already been issued. This was announced by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during a Government meeting on 23 July.

He reminded that support programmes for citizens and businesses to strengthen energy independence were launched on 20 July. These include loans to households at 0%, energy loans of 5-7-9% for small and medium-sized businesses, and loans for condominiums under the GreenDIM programme.

“We expect that thousands of similar distributed generation projects will be implemented thanks to government support,” said Denys Shmyhal.

In addition, restoration work at energy facilities is ongoing. The Government is also raising funds for this purpose. In particular, NPC Ukrenergo received a grant from the EU in the amount of EUR 100 million for the modernisation, restoration and protection of substations.

“This is part of the European special programme Ukraine Investment Facility. The funds will be channelled through the German state development bank KfW,” the Prime Minister said.

According to the Head of Government, just like in the last heating season, the state expects to get through the winter using gas of its own Ukrainian production. More than 10 billion cubic metres of gas have already been pumped into the storage facilities. By November, it is planned to increase this volume to over 13 billion cubic metres.