Enefit Industry AS, a subsidiary of the Estonian state-owned energy company Eesti Energia, has announced a tender for the construction of a 100 MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant as part of the Baltic Power Plant complex in Narva. According to Enefit Industry, it intends to use this power plant in the reserve capacity market to balance the power grid.
The company plans to sign a turnkey contract for the construction of the facility. The value of the state contract is estimated at €100 million, and construction is scheduled for completion in 2028.
“The power plant is designed to generate heat and electricity in cogeneration mode and to provide reserve capacity (….) It will operate on gas piston engine technology with a capacity of 4 to 13 MW. It is expected that the plant will run mainly on natural gas or biomethane and should already be capable of using up to 25% hydrogen as fuel,” the statement said.
It is noted that during the gas station’s operating hours, residual heat can be supplied to the Narva heating network.
“The situation on both the frequency markets and the day-ahead electricity market clearly shows that Estonia needs new flexible and dispatchable generation capacity. The advantage of an autonomous gas-fired power plant is its quick start-up, which helps to respond quickly when electricity prices are high,” said Enefit Industry CEO Lauri Karp, quoted in the report.
The preliminary qualification stage of the tender will last until May 29, and Enefit Industry expects to receive preliminary applications by the end of June.
The company emphasizes that the tender is a prerequisite for participation in the procurement of frequency reserve announced by the data transmission system operator Elering.
As reported, the Estonian energy company Eesti Energia has reorganized and spun off its shale extraction, processing, and liquid fuel production businesses into a separate entity, Enefit Industry AS.
“From April 1, the power plants will continue to operate as Enefit Power OU, while the liquid fuel production plants and extraction divisions will operate as Enefit Industry AS,” Eesti Energia said.
All shale-fired thermal power plants within the group perform a reserve function.
PJSC Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant (NKMZ, Kramatorsk, Donetsk region) will pay dividends to shareholders totaling UAH 223.314 million in the period from May 29 to November 1 this year at the rate of UAH 1 thousand per share (par value UAH 400).
According to a publication in the NSSMC’s information disclosure system, the decision to pay dividends was made by the company’s general shareholders’ meeting on April 28, and the supervisory board on May 5.
According to the NSSMC, as of the fourth quarter of 2024, the company’s president, Georgiy Skudar, owns more than 8.97% of NKMZ shares, while Galina Savenko and Elena Yakovleva, respectively, own almost 33.586% and 33.63% (according to media reports, Skudar’s daughters – IF-U). Since December 2023, the Supervisory Board of NKMZ has been chaired by the company’s Vice President Dmytro Skudar.
As reported, the shareholders allocated the entire net profit of UAH 36.33 million received in 2024, as well as part of the previously unused profit in the amount of UAH 186.98 million, to pay dividends.
According to the company, retained earnings as of the beginning of this year exceeded UAH 2.34 billion.
According to the company, NKMZ’s net income in 2024 increased by 3.2 times year-on-year to UAH 1 billion 146 million, including exports to Europe and Asia worth UAH 941.3 million (82%).
In 2024, Slovakia, Lithuania, Egypt and Luxembourg were added to the list of NKMZ’s largest importing countries along with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan (where exports decreased 12.3 times over the year) and India (where exports increased 31 times). Deliveries in Ukraine increased 5.2 times to UAH 204.6 million.
In 2023, the plant suffered a loss of UAH 856.93 million.
As reported, NKMZ, whose facilities were forced to be mothballed with the start of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, began to partially resume operations on October 1, 2023.
Last year, the workers were forced to stand idle from January 29 to March 1 “due to irregular production and economic activities, lack of centralized heating of production units and saving of fuel and energy resources.”
NKMZ is a city-forming enterprise in Kramatorsk and the largest in Ukraine for the production of rolling, metallurgical, forging and pressing, hydraulic, mining, lifting and transport, hydraulic and railway equipment.
As of the beginning of 2023, the average number of its employees exceeded 7.2 thousand, and as of the beginning of 2025, it was 5.660 thousand.
DTEK Kyiv Grids has completed almost 40% of the repairs planned for 2025 to prepare the city’s energy infrastructure for stable operation during peak consumption periods, in particular during the heat wave or autumn and winter.
“We have already completed almost 40% of the activities planned for 2025. In particular, we have repaired more than 90 transformer substations of different voltage classes and completed more than 300 repairs of cable lines,” the company said, citing Denys Bondar, CEO of DTEK Kyiv Electricity Grids.
In total, in 2025, the power engineers of the transmission system operator plan to carry out repairs at six high-voltage substations, as well as 802 distribution and transformer points. In addition, it is planned to repair almost 60 kilometers of overhead power lines, 60 transformers, 217 switches and carry out 2,150 repairs on underground cable power lines.
As noted in the company, the power engineers of the capital conduct inspections, diagnostics of equipment and electrical lines, in particular, using thermal imagers, mobile electrical laboratories, analysis of technical fluids, etc. and, based on the data obtained, identify weaknesses where an accident may occur.
As reported, last year DTEK Kyiv Electricity Networks repaired and reconstructed 797 power facilities and 62 km of power lines and performed 5 thousand repairs of cable lines, investing almost UAH 1 billion in these projects.
In April 2025, Ukraine exported 4.1 million tons of agricultural products, which is 23.4% less than the same indicator of the previous month, according to the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club.
“Such dynamics of export reduction is typical for this season. The vast majority of the grown products have already been exported, and there are still small volumes for export,” the analysts explained.
Experts noted that almost all groups of goods in April 2025 show a decline in exports. The only exception is vegetable oils, the export volumes of which are growing. This is due to the atypical situation on the Ukrainian sunflower oil market, whose production volumes were stretched over time this year.
According to them, in April 2025, the structure of agricultural exports was dominated by vegetable oils, which amounted to 525.8 mln tons, up 6% compared to the previous month. At the same time, sunflower oil accounted for 91% of exports, and soybean oil – 9%.
Grain exports decreased by 33% and amounted to 2.4 mln tons, with corn accounting for 65%, wheat – 32%, barley – 2%; oilseeds – by 3% to 421.2 thsd tonnes. tons (soybeans – 78%, rapeseed – 20% and flax – 1%), cake after extraction of vegetable oils – by 14% to 423.0 thousand tons (sunflower – 73%, soybean – 27%), other types of agricultural products – by 2% to 357.0 thousand tons.
PrJSC “Ukrainian Financial Housing Company” (Ukrfinzhytlo), which manages the state program “eOselya”, increased its assets by 54% to UAH 93.76 billion in 2024.
According to the company’s annual financial statements posted in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC), its revenues increased by 25.7% last year to UAH 10.3 billion, while expenses increased 2.7 times to UAH 2.73 billion.
The company’s retained earnings at the end of 2024 amounted to UAH 9.5 billion.
As of December 31, 2024, financial investments in the company’s securities amounted to UAH 68.9 billion, and loans for UAH 12.9 billion were received. The company’s net profit increased by 5% to UAH 6.2 billion.
In 2024, Ukrfinzhytlo reportedly issued UAH 14.4 billion in loans to partner banks to finance the eHouse program, including by quarter: first quarter – UAH 3.7 billion; second quarter – UAH 4.3 billion; third quarter – UAH 3.3 billion; fourth quarter – UAH 3 billion.
In addition, in 2024, the company paid UAH 3.3 billion in favor of the state to the budgets of all levels and other target funds in the form of taxes, fees and other mandatory payments.
“Ukrfinzhytlo also plans to distribute UAH 1.87 billion in dividends from its net profit for 2024 to the state budget.
As reported, the eOselya affordable mortgage lending program was launched in Ukraine in October 2022. Contract servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, employees of the security and defense sector, healthcare workers, teachers, and scientists can apply for a preferential mortgage at 3% per annum for up to 20 years with a down payment of 20% of the cost of housing. Starting from August 1, 2023, war veterans, combatants, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and citizens who do not own housing exceeding the standard area can apply for the eHouse program at a 7% interest rate.
Under the terms of the program, privileged categories of participants can buy housing in a house under construction and houses not older than 10 years (in the capital and regional centers), while other participants can buy housing in a house not older than three years or a building under construction. IDPs can participate in “eHouse” at 7% per annum and purchase housing less than 10 years old or under construction throughout Ukraine, where the program operates.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine amended the terms of eHouse by Resolution No. 939 of August 16. In particular, starting from September 19, eRestoration certificates can be used as a down payment for the purchase of housing under eHouse, property rights to private houses under construction can be purchased, and interest rates have been increased after 10 years of loan servicing. Starting from October 19, the down payment for young people under the age of 25 was reduced (from 10%).
The program involves 11 partner banks: state-owned Oschadbank, PrivatBank, Ukrgasbank, Sens Bank, Sky Bank, Credit Dnipro Bank, Globus Bank, Tascombank, Bisbank, and Radabank.
In total, as of May 1, 16,600 families have become homeowners since the launch of the eHouse preferential mortgage program in 2022, with the total amount of loans received amounting to UAH 27.302 billion.
