Some 2,000 Ukrainian families moved toward embracing green energy throughout the past year.
The capacity of new Ukrainian renewable energy facilities commissioned in 2017 and operating under green tariff increased by 2.1 times from 2016, to 257 MW, according to the Ukrainian National Energy and Utilities Regulation Commission.
Ukraine and Belarus have necessary technical potential and economic reasoning to implement energy transition and increase the share of "green" energy in the Final Energy Supply to 91% and 81% by 2050 correspondingly, as announced during the press-conference on November 14, 2017 in Bonn, Germany in the framework of the COP 23, Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
More than 1,200 households in Ukraine installed solar panel systems in January-September 2017, which was 1.5 times up against 2016, according to the State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine.
The government has approved the Energy Strategy of Ukraine until 2035, which provides for accelerating the development of renewable energy to secure the country's energy independence, according to Head of Ukraine's State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Energy Serhiy Savchuk, itc.ua reports.
The launch in Ukraine of new renewable energy capacities working on a "green" tariff in the first half of 2017 increased 4.5 times year-over-year (y-o-y), from 28.3 MW to 126.5 MW, the press service of the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine told UNIAN.