Energy and environment – EU in UKRAINE

EU awards grant for development of eco-friendly production of bearings

2020/01/17euukrainecoop

The Ukrainian company named “Symbol” launched the manufacture of plain bearings from scrap ferrous metals, replacing traditional bronze. Today’s metallurgy uses mostly bronze bearings, and the production of this nonferrous metal leaves a substantial energy and carbon trace. The manufacture from scrap metals is more economically beneficial and less harmful for public health and the environment. Symbol became a winner of Climate Innovation Vouchers, a grant program from EBRD and the EU implemented in Ukraine by Greencubator. Read more →

EU co-finances renovation of street lighting in Sambir

2019/12/172019/12/18euukrainecoop

Five years ago, Sambir faced an energy challenge. On the one hand, rising electricity tariffs took more and more funds out of the city’s budget. Read more →

EU finances Ukrainian alternative energy projects

2019/11/22euukrainecoop

Sirocco Energy’s Ukrainian team designed a wind turbine capable of transforming wind energy into power not somewhere out there in the field but where people need it the most – in the city. It may significantly accelerate Ukraine’s advance toward clean energy. Read more →

EU supports Vesele hromada in Zaporizhia region

2019/08/132019/08/14euukrainecoop

Residents of Vesele amalgamated territorial community are not afraid of being active, offering cooperation and implementing experimental projects. They built a solar power plant in the place of abandoned landfill. An administrative service center was opened in Vesele, modernized with the help from Swedish experts. The community has bought and operates the first mobile waste sorting line in Ukraine. Schoolchildren are able to grow vegetables in school greenhouses, learn to manage the community using table games, and record their own programs for the local radio station. Read more →

EU helps protect Ukrainian rivers

2019/08/082019/08/13euukrainecoop

As of 2018, there are 13 European-standard basin councils operating in Ukraine. They include representatives of central and local governments and at least 30% of water users, including entrepreneurs, farmers and civic activists. Together, they solve the problems of Ukrainian reservoirs. And they are assisted in this by the European Union Water Initiative Plus and the Environmental Reform Support Team under the Ecology Ministry, which is co-financed by the EU – through consultations on European legislation, training of Ukrainian civil servants, monitoring of surface and groundwater status of Ukraine, etc. Read more →

New electricity market: what was before and how is it now?

2019/08/082019/08/13euukrainecoop

The first step in the transition from the old to a new model of the electricity market has been taken by establishing a wholesale market where generating companies or electricity producers make direct contracts with buyers Read more →

How a Small Town from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Surprised Europe with Energy-Efficient Achievements

2019/07/18euukrainecoop

Dolyna is the only Ukrainian town in this-year list of finalists for the award of the European Union on Sustainable Energy among Eastern Partnership. For a district centre of Ukraine with a population of 20 thousand people such a recognition is a great achievement. It became achievable due to the strategy of sustainable energy development supported by the town authorities, million-euro project and citizens who are ready to actively participate in development of Dolyna. Read more →

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