Ministry_of_Energy_and_Coal_Mining_(Ukraine)

Ministry of Energy (Ukraine)

Ministry of Energy (Ukraine)

Ukrainian government ministry

The Ministry of Energy (Ukrainian: Міністерство енергетики України) is the main body in the system of central government of Ukraine responsible for realization of electric power-generating state policies; nuclear-industrial, and oil-gas complexes often referred simply as the Fuel-Energy Complex.

Quick Facts Agency overview, Formed ...

The government ministry was originally formed in 1970s as Ministry of Energy and Electrification.

Functions

  • state governing of the Fuel-Energy Complex
  • ensuring the realization of the state policies in the Fuel-Energy Complex
  • ensuring energy security of the State
  • participation in the formation, regulation, and improvement of the fuel-energy resource market
  • developing proposals to improve economic incentives in stimulation of the Fuel-Energy Complex development

Vectors of specialization

  • Power generation
  • Nuclear power
  • Oil and Gas industry
  • Coal mining

Fuel energy complex associations

Headquarters of the Ministry in Kyiv

Power generation

Oil/gas and oil refinery industries

  • National Joint-Stock Company Naftogaz Ukrainy
    • Subsidiary Company Ukrgasproduction
    • Open Joint-Stock Company Ukrnafta (50% + 1)
    • Subsidiary Joint-Stock Company Chornomornaftogaz
    • Overseas branches
    • other enterprises

Small share participants

Former members

  • State Special Enterprise Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was created on July 11, 2001 on base of the former Energoatom's company of the same name. The company was basically recommissioned under a special jurisdiction for the further decommissioning of its nuclear power station. On July 15, 2005 the enterprise was transferred from under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy to the Ministry of Emergencies.[3]
  • National Joint-Stock Company Energy Company of Ukraine

History

Previous names:

  • 1982–1997 Ministry of Energy and Electrification
  • 1997–1999 Ministry of Energy
  • 1999–2010 Ministry of Fuel and Energy
  • 2010–present Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining

The ministry also absorbed a separate Ministry of Coal Mining which existed since 1954 until 1999 and was revived in 2005-2010.

The Ministry was (as it turned out) temporally merged the ministry with the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources by Honcharuk Government (on 29 August 2019).[4] But the succeeding Shmyhal Government re-created the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (on 27 May 2020).[5]

List of ministers

Energy and electrification

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Energy

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Fuel and energy

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Coal mining

Ministry of Coal Mining of Ukraine existed at least since 1954.

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Energy and coal mining

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Energy and environmental protection

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Energy

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Official Cabinet of Ministers website page of the Ministry. Contact Us". 2017.
  2. [2]
    (in Ukrainian) The Rada appointed Galushchenko Minister of Energy, Ekononominska Pravda (29 April 2021)
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    (in Ukrainian) About the transfer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to the Ministry of Emergencies (official document)
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    New Cabinet formed in Ukraine The Rada appointed the new Cabinet: Avakov and Markarova remained (РАДА ПРИЗНАЧИЛА НОВИЙ КАБМІН: АВАКОВ І МАРКАРОВА ЛИШИЛИСЬ), Ukrayinska Pravda (29 August 2019)
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    Govt backs separation of ecology ministry from Energy and Environmental Protection Ministry, Interfax-Ukraine (27 May 2020)
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    "How much does a minister's chair cost: new head of the Ministry of Energy as an irritant for Kolomoisky". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). April 17, 2020. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
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    Yanukovych appoints new Cabinet of Ministers, Kyiv Post (24 December 2012)
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    РАДА ОБРАЛА НОВИЙ УРЯД | Українська правда
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    Rada supports coalition-proposed government lineup, Interfax-Ukraine (2 December 2014)
    Rada approves new Cabinet with three foreigners, Kyiv Post (2 December 2014)
    (in Ukrainian) Rada voted the new Cabinet, Ukrayinska Pravda (2 December 2014)
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    New Cabinet formed in Ukraine, UNIAN (14 April 2016)
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    "UNIAN: Ukraine's new energy minister voices priorities in office". Kyiv Post. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
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    Ukraine’s new Cabinet of Ministers
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    "Olha Buslavets Is Ukraine's New Acting Energy Minister". Hromadske.TV. April 17, 2020. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
    "Про тимчасове покладення виконання обов'язків Міністра енергетики та захисту довкілля України на Буславець О. А." Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved June 27, 2020.
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    Cabinet goes for top reshuffle in energy ministry, UNIAN (20 November 2020)
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    (in Ukrainian) The government appointed Vitrenko acting Minister of Energy, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 December 2020)
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