The largest taxpayers of Ukraine in January 2018 transferred UAH 19.7 billion to the budget, which is UAH 1.1 billion, or 6.5% more than in January 2017, the office of the largest payers of the State Fiscal Service wrote on its Facebook page.
“The share of tax payments from large businesses, serviced by the office, accounted for 58.4% of the total collection of tax payments to the national budget in Ukraine,” the report said.
The largest revenues in January were provided by large taxpayers of Kyiv (UAH 14.9 billion), Dnipro (UAH 1.6 billion), Kharkiv (UAH 1.4 billion), Zaporizhia (UAH 700 million), Lviv (UAH 400 million), and Odesa (UAH 700 million).
As reported, in 2017 large taxpayers transferred UAH 250.3 billion to the budget, which is UAH 30.3 billion or 13% more than in 2016.
The service reduced the number of largest taxpayers by 1,230 enterprises in the register for 2018, to 1,364.
Belgium’s Upgrade Energy wants to build a solar power plant with the installed capacity of 25-30 MW in Zhytomyr region, the press service of the Zhytomyr Regional Administration has reported. The press service said that it would take two years to implement the project. Irshansk solar power plant LLC (Zhytomyr) will implement the project. Land parcel leasing agreements have been signed,” the administration said.
Upgrade Energy did not work previously in Ukraine. Today beneficiaries of Irshansk solar power plant LLC are Kyiv resident Oleh Hramotenko and Estonia Energy Invest.
Eight international companies have shown their interest to the management of the Ukrainian gas transport system (GTS), advisor to the Energy and Coal Industry Minister of Ukraine Maskym Beliavsky has said. “Today, a procedure for receiving and studying proposals from interested companies is underway. As of February 1, proposals were received from the eight global leading companies,” he said.
Beliavsky recalled that the deadline for accepting proposals from potential partners in managing the GTS of Ukraine was extended from February 1 to March 1, 2018. “With a view to more thoroughly studying the expectations and proposals of international partners, as well as the synchronization of this process with the progress of the creation of an independent operator of the gas transportation system, it was decided to extend the deadline for acceptance of the proposals until March 1, 2018,” he said.
As reported, along with Snam (Italy)/Eustream (Slovakia) and Gasunie (the Netherlands)/GRTgaz (France), with which the relevant memorandums were signed, a German group is also interested in the management of Ukraine’s gas transit system.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Energopark Yavoriv LLC have signed a loan agreement for construction of the first phase of a solar power plant for the amount of EUR 24.7 million. Energopark Yavoriv LLC Director Maskym Kozytsky told reporters that construction of the solar power plant will start in Yavoriv district of Lviv region in March 2018. Its capacity is 36 MW and the total cost of the project is EUR 34 million.
Energopark Yavoriv LLC is part of EcoOptima Group, which develops alternative energy in Lviv region. At present, two wind farms and four solar power plants have been built.
Public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz seeks to finish reconstruction of the Bar compressor station (Vinnytsia region) of the Soyuz gas pipeline being implemented jointly with German companies, Ukrtransgaz Chief Engineer Yuriy Ziabchenko has said. He said that after the approval of the blueprints by the government the company will carry out all the required works in 18 or 18 and a half months. Some 60% of the equipment required for reconstruction has been shipped.
The projected cost of construction is around EUR 80, including EUR 53.6 million of a loan provided by Deutsche Bank and EUR 26 million of Ukrtransgaz’s own funds. Ferrostaаl Industrieanlagen is the general contractor of the project.
As part of the reconstruction of the Bar compressor station, the company plans to replace two gas-pumping units (GPU) with modern production facilities made by General Electric, install a new fuel gas preparation unit, automatic control systems and generate compressed air with a receiver, and reconstruct fire safety, ventilation and heating systems.
As a result, the GPU efficiency will increase from 25% to 36%. The annual fuel gas saving will be 76 million cubic meters. The project payback is nine years based on 25 years of operation.
In general, two of seven GPUs of the Bar compressor station will be replaced, two will be used as backup, another three will be decommissioned.
During the visit to the site, Naftohaz Ukrainy CEO Andriy Kobolev said that cooperation with international companies in the modernization of the Bar compressor station is a key component for successful work in the oil and gas sector and improving efficiency. Therefore, Ukraine intends to expand cooperation, attract European companies to manage the country’s gas transport system, signing contracts for the transportation of gas not only with Gazprom.
