KIEV, Oct. 18 – The State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving is drawing up a national plan of action on the introduction of energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources for the period until 2020, the agency's head, Mykola Pashkevych, said.

KIEV, Oct. 18 - The September consumer confidence index was 81.8, which is 4.8 points lower than in August, reads a monthly survey of GfK Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 18 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has estimated the cost of the reconstruction of Bortnychi aeration plant in Kiev in UAH 3.5 billion.

"There is the Bortnychi aeration plant. It's necessary to finally resolve this stinking problem...It costs UAH 3.5 billion, and this the budget of the average region of Ukraine," he told the journalists in Kiev on Wednesday.

HORLIVKA (Donetsk region), Oct. 19 – The volume of the Ukrainian mineral fertilizers market will double by 2017, Dmytro Firtash, the owner of four out of the six Ukrainian nitric fertilizer plants, said.

KIEV, Oct. 19 – The Cabinet of Ministers has proposed that the export duty on supplies of Ukrainian-extracted gas to countries that are members of the Energy Community be canceled.

DONETSK, Oct. 19 - Air Liquide, a French industrial gas producer, will build a new ASU-1400 air separation unit to meet the needs of Metinvest's Yenakiyeve Steel Mill at a total cost of EUR 130 million.

KIEV, Oct. 19 – Ukraine will not change its plan to renegotiate hundreds of tariff ceilings as “many” members of the World Trade Organizations have already entered consultations with the country, a senior government official said Friday.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – National nuclear generating company EnergoAtom jointly with the Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Ministry has drawn up a plan to minimize the shipment of waste nuclear fuel to Russia, Vice President for general issues at EnergoAtom, Olha Kravets, said in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 20 - ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih, the largest steelmaker in Ukraine (Dnipropetrovsk region), has rejected claims by the State Customs Service that it attempted to smuggle coking coal by understating of its value, and accused state bodies of being biased against his company.

KIEV, Oct. 19 – Ukraine and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have signed a loan agreement on a EUR 175 million loan for the construction of a 190-kilometer 750 kV transmission line between the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and a new substation in Kakhovka.