Kyiv Post: Nataliya Katser-Buchkovska - No More Choices Except Reform of Energy Market in Ukraine

Whereas the global trends are signaling about the expanding of the low carbon energy, Ukraine in the center of Europe with well-developed energy infrastructure is lagging behind due to huge energy crises. Energy market was monopolized by few and artificially kept aside the innovation and development. Moreover, low energy prices contributed to market inefficiency and cross subsidizing. Lack of competition and transparency made the situation even worse. Such situation could continue for a while but the Russian aggression accompanied by energy crises revealed the energy market imperfection. Today, when the energy is not longer the economic or policy issue but the issue of national security, the reanimation of the market is one of the important tasks for the coalition government.

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