The State Enterprise "Guaranteed Buyer" and the company "Ukrenergo" must ensure repayment of the debts accrued in the energy sector, since their existence significantly hinders the development of decentralized generation in the country, which is important in the conditions of Russian shelling of the energy facilities, reported RBC-Ukraine with reference to the Razumkov Centre energy programmes director Volodymyr Omelchenko.
"It is a very good idea to build wind farms. They are not being built at the pace we want, but there are significant problems here. First of all, the thing is that, unfortunately, the state does not meet its obligations to private investors, who are investing in the decentralization of the energy system," Omelchenko said.
According to him, the state-owned "Guaranteed Buyer" and the company "Ukrenergo" have large debts to investors who invested money in wind and solar power plants, which strongly inhibits the development of decentralized generation.
"If there were no such impediments, we would already have built and would have much more decentralized generation capacities, and the question of energy supply would not be so pressing now," the expert explained.
He believes that as a result of the policy of state bodies that violate the legislation and did not help reduce debts to "green investors", the country will face very serious problems with the energy sector decentralization.
"If we do not solve the problem of settlements with "green investors", we will never create decentralized generation," says Omelchenko.
The Guaranteed Buyer owes green energy companies for 2023 25%, for 2022 — almost 45%.
