KYIV, July 22 – Electricity consumption in Ukraine in January-June 2019, taking into account in-process losses, increased by 0.03% (by 26.7 million kWh) compared to the same period last year, to 76.782 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, July 22 – Electricity production in the united energy system of Ukraine in January-June 2019 decreased by 0.1% (by 54.9 million kWh) compared to the same period of 2018, to 79.819 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, July 22 – Wind Solar Energy LLC (Kyiv) intends to build the Ovruch wind power plant (Ovruch district, Zhytomyr region) with a capacity of 25 MW, according to the website of the unified register of environmental impact assessment.

KYIV, July 22 – Gas reserves in the underground gas storage facilities (UGS) of Ukraine on the morning of July 21 reached 15.018 billion cubic meters (bcm), CEO of Naftogaz Ukrainy Andriy Kobolev said on Facebook.

KIEV, July 22 – UkrNafta shareholders voted Wednesday to appoint Mark Rollins as the new chairman of Ukraine’s largest oil company, ending years of shareholder dispute between the government and billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskiy.

SIMFEROPOL, July 20 - The Crimean Chornomornaftogaz State Gas Company (now called Chernomorneftegaz in annexed Crimea), which produces gas and oil off the coast of Crimea in the Black Sea and around the peninsula, is planning to double the capacity of the sole underground gas storage facility (UGS) on the peninsula, the Hlibovske UGS, company CEO Sergey Beym said.

KIEV, July 20 - Ukraine in 2015 is unlikely to import more than 20 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas, according to Naftogaz Ukrayiny Director for Business Development Yuriy Vitrenko.

KIEV, July 20 – The debt of insolvent banks to the National Bank of Ukraine as of June 1 totaled UAH 37.068 billion and has grown by UAH 27.438 billion since early 2015, the Individuals' Deposit Guarantee Fund said in an analytical report, a copy of which has been sent to Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 21 – Ukraine International Airlines has asked the European Commission to accelerate the signing of the Common Aviation Area Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union.

KIEV, July 18 – The State Food-Grain Corporation has discussed an investment program on the development of corporation, with the attraction of the commodity part of a credit from China with its Chinese partners - the China National Complete Engineering Corporation (CCEC).