KYIV. Aug 21 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine’s Energy and Coal Industry Ministry will review the plan for the first phase of the implementation Ukraine’s Energy Strategy until 2035, for the period until 2020, by late 2017, Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Ministry Natalia Boiko has said.
“The road map for the first phase will be finalized by the end of this year. We have many proposals,” she told reporters after a government meeting on Friday.
Boiko said that the strategy will be implemented in three stages – until 2020, until 2025 and until 2035.
The document approved by the government does not require the approval of the Verkhovna Rada, she said.
“We had a discussion. There are strategies approved by the Verkhovna Rada… We made a political decision that the government takes responsibility, and today’s decision is enough,” Boiko said, adding that this is the first energy strategy of the country approved by the government after the Revolution of Dignity.
As reported, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on Friday approved the Energy Strategy of Ukraine until 2035 with the condition of a three-day revision of this document.
