“According to the conclusions of the Secretariat of the Energy Community, energy markets in Ukraine will not be able to work effectively if the debt problem is not solved,” the review said.
Experts emphasized that the only way to overcome the crisis is to ensure the solvency of all market participants – manufacturers, suppliers, and especially end consumers.
Despite the fact that the President of Ukraine signed a law aimed at increasing payment discipline, the government has not yet fulfilled the main condition and has not reduced the list of protected consumers, two -thirds of which do not belong to critical infrastructure.
According to the analysts of the center, the last official update of the draft government resolution, which was supposed to be revised by the list of protected consumers, was dated on February 26, 2025 – it was then that the project reappeared on the website of the Ministry of Energy for refinement.
As noted in the review, NEC “Ukrenergo” takes measures to reduce its own debt. As of the end of April, she reduced debts to the participants in the balancing market to UAH 13.7 billion, and to the electricity manufacturers from renewable sources – up to 16.3 billion UAH. The debt to Ukrenergo itself remains critically high: the market should company 38 billion UAH. Of these, UAH 12 billion are not payments of the Supplier of the Last Hope, the main customers of which are state enterprises.
