This report was prepared by the OECD, with the financial assistance of the European Union Delegation to Ukraine, in close co‑operation with the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission (NEURC), the Ministry of Energy and the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers. The OECD team would like to thank them for their support to the project from its inception, for providing timely and quality information, for their availability to discuss and exchange, for reviewing the draft and providing comments, as well as for their continued engagement with the project despite the very difficult times for the country.
The OECD team is grateful for valuable input from market participants, in particular Ukrenergo, the Market Operator, the Ukrainian Energy Exchange, the DTEK Group, Ukrhydroenergo, Energoatom, Centrenergo, the Guaranteed Buyer, the CWP Group, the Ukrainian Association of Renewable Energy, the Solar Energy Association of Ukraine, the Razumkov Centre and the Public Association “Energy Union”.
The report benefited from the expertise and comments of the consultancies DiXi Group and Oxera. The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy, also reviewed the draft and provided valuable comments. International stakeholders from the Energy Community Secretariat, the International Energy Agency, the European Investment Bank, the Agency for Co‑operation of Energy Regulators and the European Commission, contributed valuable insights, comments and data.
This report was prepared by Károly Nagy, Carolina Abate, Halyna Rudenko from the OECD Competition Division. Richard May contributed his expertise on market studies and reviewed the report together with Federica Maiorano, both from the Competition Division. Mariia Melnyk and Pedro Caro De Sousa formerly at the OECD Competition Division also provided inputs. Ori Schwartz, Head of the OECD Competition Division, provided overall leadership of the project. As an external electricity market expert, Oleksii Mykhailenko, prepared analytic work for the report. Gabriela Miranda, from the OECD Global Relations and Co‑operation Directorate, co‑ordinated the team’s interaction with Ukrainian stakeholders and provided valuable input. Padraic Convery edited the report and Erica Agostinho, from the OECD Competition Division, prepared it for publication.