NNEGC Energoatom expects to complete corporatization of the enterprise, according to optimistic estimates, in half a year, according to pessimistic estimates, in a year, said the president of the company Petr Kotin.
“Energoatom’s corporatization is moving at quite a fast pace. According to pessimistic estimates, it will take us a year to be fully corporatized. On the optimistic side, half a year. There are many processes going on now; one of them is the stocktaking of all assets and collection of creditor claims. This is not an easy procedure,” said Mr. Kotin in his interview to journalists during visit of one of the NPPs.
At the same time, he specified that with regard to the Zaporizhzhya NPP occupied by the Russian invaders “we will use preliminary, pre-war inventory data for the time being, and then (after the return of the plant under Ukrainian control – ER) we will adjust.
As reported, at the beginning of May the Cabinet of Ministers reorganized the state enterprise by transforming it into the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom, 100% of the shares in the authorized capital of which belong to the state and are not subject to privatization or alienation in any other way.
As noted by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal, it will improve the efficiency of management, attract additional funds for new projects and strengthen energy independence.
The Cabinet of Ministers also created a commission for Energoatom’s transformation and approved its composition, set a two-month deadline for lenders to file their claims against the company, and formed an inventory commission.
Before that, on February 6, 2023, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the draft law 8067 on corporatization of the state-owned enterprise Energoatom during the second reading.
The corporatization of Energoatom is stipulated by the loan agreement between the company and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the guarantee agreement “The Integrated Generalized Program of Nuclear Power Plants Units Safety Enhancement,” ratified by Verkhovna Rada.
“Energoatom is the operator of all four operating nuclear power plants in Ukraine. It operates Zaporizhzhya, Pivdenno-Ukrainian, Rivne and Khmelnitsky power plants with 15 power units, equipped with water-water power reactors, with total installed electric capacity of 13,8 GW. The 6GW ZNPP has been under Russian occupation since May 4, 2022.
