KYIV, Oct 26 – The State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving together with the Ministry of Energy and the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine (BAU) has developed a bill on exemption of bioenergy enterprises from the payment of tax on CO2 emissions.

KYIV, Oct 26 – Zaporizhia aluminum mill ZAlK after a long idle period has started smelting aluminum from secondary metals, an industry source said Monday.

"Today, 300 kg of aluminum have been smelted from secondary raw materials – aluminum scrap," the Interfax-Ukraine's source said.

KYIV, Oct 26 – The share of banks expecting loan portfolio quality deterioration in the next 12 months decreased to 19% for the corporate segment and to 25% for consumer lending, while in the second quarter this indicator was 44% and 52% respectively, according to the results of the Bank Lending survey conducted by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), which is posted on the regulator's website.

KYIV, Oct 26 – The postal and logistics operator Trade House Meest Express LLC (Meest Express, Lviv) has launched air delivery from the United States to Lviv.

KYIV, Oct 26 – Ukraine, in line with an agreement with the Turkish company Bayraktar on the location of the production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the country, is looking for an appropriate site for the enterprise, Deputy Prime Minister for Strategic Industries Oleh Urusky said.

KYIV, Oct 24 - I&U Group agricultural holding (formerly Agrospetsservis) will build a 6 MW biogas plant worth EUR15 million in Kirovohrad region raising an EBRD loan of EUR13 million, the press service of the EBRD has reported.

KHARKIV, Oct 24 - The first energy cooperative Soniachne Misto plans to launch a pilot project for the construction of a solar power station with a capacity of 100-150 kW at the expense of crowdfunding in Slavutych in 2019.

KYIV, Oct 24 – A range of companies of Naftogaz Ukrayiny by 2020 will spend a total of $987 million on reaching two strategic goals for the group, which is to step up natural gas extraction and secure seamless operation of the gas transportation system (GTS), procurement director of the group Orest Lohunov has announced.

KYIV, Oct 24 - The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at its meeting on October 24 approved the issue of five-year eurobonds in the amount of up to $1 billion for Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KYIV, Oct 24 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has amended the rules of issuing licenses for money transfer in the national currency without opening accounts to nonbank financial institutions and the rules of revoking them.