According to him, after the decision of the National Commission for State Regulation in the Spheres of Energy and Utilities (NEURC) to increase the price cap, electricity imports increased significantly. Approximately 1 GW of capacity now covers business needs, which makes it possible to reduce the load on internal generation and provide additional volumes of electricity for household consumers.
The minister emphasized that one of the main goals of revising the price cap was precisely to increase the available resource for the population. Thanks to imports, it was possible to reduce the power supply limitation by 1–1.5 turns.
“On February 11, the head of NEURC, Yuriy Vlasenko, reported that the decision to increase the maximum prices on spot markets from January 16 ultimately made it possible to reduce the duration of outages by about one and a half lines,” the publication noted.
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National Commission for State Regulation in the Spheres of Energy and Utilities (NCRECU), increased the price cap in short-term market segments from January 17, 2026 to the delivery day of January 18. As a result, the upper price cap for all hours on the day-ahead and intraday market was increased to 15 thousand UAH/MWh. In the balancing market, the maximum marginal price is set at 16 thousand UAH/MWh, the minimum marginal prices are at the technical level.
In January, the director of energy programs at the Razumkov Center said that the increase in electricity imports to Ukraine in December 2025 and January 2026 was a direct consequence of the increase in the price cap, which made it possible to remove barriers to the supply of electricity.
