Ukraine's largest private power producer DTEK said on Monday it has awarded a €140 million contract to a unit of US-based Fluence Energy to deliver Ukraine's first large-scale battery-based energy storage portfolio with a total capacity of 200 MW.
The project involves six energy storage sites across Ukraine and will provide 400 MWh of dispatchable energy, enough to power 600,000 homes.
Three high-power autotransformers, two funded by Japan and one by Sweden, have been delivered to Ukraine's state-run energy transmission system operator Ukrenergo, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said on Tuesday.
The State Agency of Ukraine for the Management of the Exclusion Zone and the state-owned operator of Ukraine's nuclear power plants, Energoatom, are expected to soon sign a deal to start installing small modular reactors at Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, said the head of the agency, Hryhoriy Ishchenko.
France has pledged to provide €10 million for the International Chernobyl Cooperation Account, managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), to help restore safety at the site.
DTEK Energy, a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest private energy producer DTEK, has asked holders of its 2027 Eurobonds to consider changes to the current payment rules and to approve a plan where the company would buy back up to $100 million worth of bonds each year.
The following news article was produced in a partnership between Ukraine Rebuild Newswire and top 10 global law firm CMS. Much of the article is based on CMS' "Prosthetics Market in Ukraine" report, available here. Some 60,000 Ukrainians have lost limbs in three years of war,
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Ukraine's Economy Ministry is preparing an official request to the European Commission to start formal talks on postponing the introduction of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) for the war-torn country, The Odessa Journal reported on Wednesday, citing Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Economy and Trade Representative
