The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) will consider the application of French-based Total Eren S.A. (a subsidiary of Total) for the acquisition of more than 50% in six solar power plant operators (SPP).
According to the draft decision published on the AMCU website, Total Eren wants to gain control over Lviv-based Energy Space LLC (5.94 MW and 5.797 MW), Ternovytsia Solar LLC (13.023 MW and 15.537 MW), Ternovytsia Solar Plus LLC (12.832 MW and 15.537 MW), Sunlight Generation LLC (5.94 MW and 5.797 MW), Energopostach-Plus LLC (5.94 MW and 5.797 MW) and Lightful LLC (5.94 MW and 5.797 MW).
The main beneficiary of Energy Space and Ternovytsia Solar Plus is Kseniya Trofymenko (a daughter of the founder of NEST developer, the co-owner of the Multiplex cinema chain and ex-investor in Trade Commodity, Volodymyr Trofymenko), Ternovytsia Solar, Sunlight Generation Energopostach-Plus and Lightful – director general of TKS development holding Ivan Torsky.
Total Eren, together with the Norwegian company NBT, is building a large wind farm in Kherson region (Sivashenergoprom LLC).
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) on January 21 will consider the applications of Nebras Power Investment Management B.V. (the Netherlands), a member of the Qatar group Nebras, for the acquisition of 50% and more in six companies operating solar and wind power plants of businessman Vasyl Khmelnytsky and his partners.
According to the committee’s agenda, the matter concerns providing 50% in Volyn West Wind-1 LLC, Volyn West Wind-2 LLC, as well as over 50% in Free Energy Henichesk LLC, Scythia-Solar-1 LLC, Scythia-Solar-2 LLC and Port Solar LLC.
The committee will also consider the issue of granting permission to Cyprus-based Enox Trading Limited and Serhiy Yevtushenko to establish Volyn Wind Cyprus Limited.
According to data on UDP Renewables’ website, SES Free Energy (18.3 MW) began generating electricity in November 2018, Scythia-Solar-1 (13 MW) in March 2019, Scythia-Solar-2 (33 MW) in July 2019, Port Solar (8.4 MW) in October 2019.
The declared capacity of two phases of Volyn West Wind is 57 MW and 56.8 MW.
UDP Renewables is an investment and development company in the renewable energy industry. The strategic investor in UDP Renewables is Vasyl Khmelnitsky’s holding company UFuture.
DTEK Kyiv Region Grids in the six months of 2020 connected 297 household solar power plants to the networks, thereby increasing the number of such plants in the region by 16.8%, to 2,082.
According to the press service of the company, Kyiv region is one of the five leaders, where the largest number of household solar plants is installed.
According to Vitaliy Shaida, the director general of DTEK Kyiv Region Grids, the largest number of “green” energy producers are in Kyiv-Sviatoshynsky districts with 344 stations, Brovary district with 263 plants and Boryspil district with 235 stations.
As reported, Ukrainian households had installed more than 25,600 solar panels as of July 1, 2020. The total capacity of all solar plants is 658 MW. The leaders in the number of solar power plants also became Dnipropetrovsk region (3,398), Ternopil region (2,200), Ivano-Frankivsk region (1,900), and Zakarpattia region (1,600).
In the first half of 2020, some 1,330 new private solar power plants were connected to the distribution system operators of DTEK Grids. Thus, as of July 1, 2020, the total number of private solar power plants connected to DTEK Grids is 7,220 objects, which is 28% of the total number of prosumers in Ukraine.
The relevant Rada committee, when preparing the adopted law on green auctions for signature by the speaker, proposes making a clear definition of conditions for providing feed-in tariffs for all household solar power plants with a capacity of up to 30 kV, indicating that their owners are entitled to such a tariff until the end of 2019.
Oleksandr Dombrovsky, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada committee on fuel and energy complex, nuclear policy and nuclear safety, said on his Facebook page that he had sent a letter to Rada Speaker Andriy Parubiy with a corresponding proposal.
According to him, in the process of technical and legal preparation of the law on green auctions, adopted by the Verkhovna Rada, the main legal department of the Verkhovna Rada revealed inconsistencies that may lead to incorrect practice of its application. Thus, the law established the procedure for calculating feed-in tariffs for households operating solar plants of up to 50 kV, provided they are placed on roofs, facades of buildings and other housing structures. However, he did not foresee the procedure for calculating the tariff for all household solar plants with a capacity of up to 30 kV until the end of 2019.
To eliminate this gap, the procedure of Article 131 of the regulations may be applied, which allows for clarification of the wording of the voted law, the committee believes.
Rengy Development plans to build 80 MW of solar power plants in Ukraine in 2019 and to double the total portfolio of completed projects, to 160 MW.
This was announced by Managing Partner of Rengy Development Narek Harutyunyan during the discussion on the topic “Renewable Energy in Details,” organized by the Golaw law firm.
According to him, objects of 50 MW are already under construction in Mykolaiv region, the construction of another 30 MW will begin soon. He suggested there will be lull in the market of building solar stations Ukraine in July-August in view of the uncertain situation with “green” auctions.
Rengy Development was established in 2009. Since then the company has built 12 solar plants: these are mostly stations of up to 5 MW, and several plants of over 10 MW. In July 2018, Scatec Solar (Norway) signed an agreement with Rengy Development on the joint construction of a solar plant with a capacity of 47 MW in Mykolaiv region for EUR52 million.
S-Engineering LLC production company (Odesa) at the end of February signed a licensing agreement with AEG Power Solutions, which will provide it with the exclusive right to manufacture solar converters using AEG PS technology. According to the website of S-Engineering, converters with a capacity of up to 1,000 kVA will be produced at its Odesa factory under the SEMAG brand, created by the Metropoliya group of companies and SE Group International.
At present, converters, which are the main component of solar plants, are not produced in Ukraine.
“The equipment produced by under the AEG PS technology in Ukraine will have a sufficient share of local production to receive the U-1 certificate confirming the Ukrainian origin of the goods,” Oleksandr Semeniuh, the director for solar energy projects at S-Engineering LLC, said.
Vice President for Business and New Markets Development at AEG Power Solutions Jorg Liedloff said that in future the company has big plans to expand the product line that is manufactured using its technology in Ukraine.
Metropoliya provides engineering services of a full cycle in the energy sector. SE Group International, headed by S-Engineering, manufactures switchboard equipment certified under European standards.
AEG Power Solutions is the leading global supplier of power supply systems and solutions.
