Owners of the restaurant holding, uniting a chain of restaurants under the MAFIA, CASTA, BAO, NĂM, Georgia, Brilliant Bar and Yakitoriya, Oksana and Taras Serediuk plan to open 200 new restaurants in two or three years. “We have the desire and intention to open 200 restaurants under our brands under franchising contracts in two or three years. Not only in Ukraine,” Oksana Serediuk said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine. She said that the company intends to actively develop the business through franchising. “We will open our own restaurants, but globally we want to go in the direction of franchising and working with partners,” she said.
According to Serediuk, six restaurants under the brands MAFIA, CASTA and Georgia are already being prepared for opening in 2019.
“Three restaurants will be opened in Moldova next year. A restaurant is being built in Volnovakha, a large two-story restaurant is located 15 kilometers from the front line… MAFIA with karaoke and a children’s room will be located in a large two-story room,” the restaurateur said.
She said that the company seeks to enter the international market. So, negotiations are underway regarding the opening of a BAO restaurant outside Ukraine. As of December 2018, the holding includes three franchise restaurants in Moldova.
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The Cabinet of Ministers has dismissed Oleksiy Kudriavtsev from his post of the head of the State Architecture and Construction Inspection of Ukraine. “Kudriavtsev has been fired,” Oleksandr Sayenko, minister of the Cabinet of Ministers, told the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine news agency on December 12. He said Kudriavtsev had been dismissed because of violating his oath as a state servant.
DTEK has signed an agreement with the Danish manufacturer of wind turbines Vestas for building Orlivka wind power station (Prymorsky district, Zaporizhia region).
“The volume of investment in the project is about EUR140 million. We expect that the project will be completed by the end of 2019,” Maksym Tymchenko, DTEK’s director general, said during the signing of the contract.
The project, which envisages the construction of 26 wind turbines with a capacity of 3.8 MW each, is currently at the stage of completion of preparatory work. The main part of the construction work will begin in January 2019.
The capacity of the wind farm, which is the third project of the company in wind power, will provide electricity to about 200,000 households.
“We continue to implement our plans to increase the portfolio to 1,000 MW by the end of 2019, the total investment in these projects will exceed EUR 1 billion,” he said.
National Energy Company Ukrenergo has announced the launch of test transaction on the sale and purchase of electricity on the balancing market and the auxiliary service market from December 11, 2018 in line with the terms outlined in the law on the electricity market.
“Please look: exactly on the day stipulated by law, we launched a platform to simulate trading on the balancing market in real time, a period of 15 minutes. Everything is real, only without payments among market players,” Ukrenergo CEO Vsevolod Kovalchuk said, commenting on this event on his page in the Facebook social network.
Ukrenergo said that the first training module was attended by more than 40 representatives of power generation companies, including the largest Ukrainian electricity producers: National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom, DTEK Energo, Centrenergo, Ukrhydroenergo and Donbasenergo.
The company said in a press release that market players familiarized themselves with the principles of the test platform, the algorithms of operations in the balancing market and the market of auxiliary services in real time, the mechanisms of communication and interaction between market players and the system operator and other things.
“All potential players of the balancing market and the market of auxiliary services will receive logins and passwords (keys) for access to the test platform and will be able to independently test it. After that, we will meet with market players to discuss issues related to the operation of the test platform,” Ukrenergo Deputy Director for Market Development and IT Andriy Nemyrovsky said.
Kovalchuk called information manipulation the objections in his posting that the presented platform is a “dummy,” and not a real system in which the bidding will be carried out.
Nemyrovsky responded to criticism by publishing part of the results of test operations, according to which the price of the balancing market in the period from 18:00 on December 11 to 14:00 on December 12 fell to UAH 900 per 1 MWh and rose to UAH 2,140 per 1 MWh. However, it was mainly UAH 1,400–1,500 per 1 MWh with the wholesale market price approved by the National Commission for the State Regulation of Energy, Housing and Utilities Services (NCER) for the second – fourth quarter being UAH 1,586.69 per MWh.
