The Koretsky Institute of State and Law under a request of National Energy Company Ukrenergo has confirmed the absence of powers of the commission for reorganization of Ukrenergo to manage the company’s affairs. According to the findings of the scientific and legal analysis, the text of which Interfax-Ukraine has, the commission created by order of the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry No. 728 dated December 5, 2017, is not vested with the authority to manage the affairs of Ukrenergo and its current activities.
At the same time, according to the findings of the institute, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has not authorized the commission to manage the affairs and current activities of Ukrenergo, but only to provide organizational support for the Ukrenergo transformation process.
As reported, the ministry on October 18 said that the commission for reorganization of Ukrenergo, which from October 9 is headed by Blyzniuk, has decided that powers to manage the company are transferred to the commission head, which is aimed at the successful completion of the reorganization process.
Ukrenergo said about the deliberate obstruction of corporatization and the process of the introduction of the electricity market by the commission for reorganization of the company, which members are approved by the ministry.
The business court of Kyiv on October 23 suspended the decision of the commission for reorganization of Ukrenergo about the delegation of powers to manage the company to the head of the commission in the person of Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Minister of Ukraine Mykhailo Blyzniuk.
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The number of households in Ukraine, which installed solar panels, in January-September 2018 increased 2.5-fold year-over-year, to 3,000.
According to the report of the State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving, in July-September 2018 the number of households, which installed solar panels on their roofs, was 1,371.
In general, a total of 6,031 families installed solar panels on their roofs with a total capacity of 121 MW, which is 10% of total solar power generating units in the country. A total of EUR 120 million was invested in private solar panels on the roofs.
The largest number of households is in Kyiv (727), Dnipropetrovsk (694), Ternopil (522) regions, and the smallest – in Chernihiv (74), Zaporizhia (56) and Luhansk (8).
The goods turnover between Ukraine and the United States in January-August 2019 grew by 16% year-over-year, to $2.6 billion, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv has said.
“Bilateral trade in the eight months of 2018 increased by 16% and amounted to almost $2.6 billion. Exports to the United States grew by almost 32% and imports by 11%,” Kubiv said, opening the first official U.S. trade mission in Kyiv on Monday.
He also said that over three and a half years in Ukraine 80 factories were built with the attraction of foreign investment or are under construction. The leader in investing in the construction of factories is Germany, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
“The outright leader in attracting investments is Lviv region, where 18 factories with the attraction of foreign investors have been built or their construction is ending since 2015. The second place in attracting investments in the number of projects is occupied by Vinnytsia and Ivano-Frankivsk regions – six factories each,” Kubiv said.
The U.S. trade mission in Ukraine consists of four sections – IT, agriculture, infrastructure, and energy. The United States represents three companies in each of these areas.
Reikartz Hotel Management LLC (Kyiv), a managing company of the Reikartz Hotel Group, has signed a contract to manage a first hotel in Yaremche (Ivano-Frankivsk region), Stanislavsky Hotel, which entered the chain under the Vita Park brand.
“The resort hotel Stanislavsky entered the network under the brand Vita Park, and from November 1, begins work under the name of VitaPark Stanislavsky Yaremche,” Reikartz said on its website.
Reikartz Hotel Group Operating Director Andriy Dema said that the complex infrastructure includes 54 rooms of various categories. He also said that by the middle of 2019, the second building with 130 rooms will be open.
Reikartz started its activity in the sphere of hotel services in Ukraine in 2003 after a group of Belgian architects, led by Francois Ryckaerts, had bought an old mansion in Drukarska Street in the center of Lviv.
Reikartz Hotel Group unites 37 hotels in Ukraine, two in Sweden and three in Germany.
