KYIV, Aug 17 – Over 500 households in Ukraine installed solar panels on their private houses in H1 2017, the State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving reported on Thursday.

KYIV, Aug 18 – Corruption in the energy sector is the largest among all economic sectors, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has said.

KYIV, Aug 18 – Retail prices of liquefied gas will grow over a large shortage of it caused by several unfavorable factors, the A-95 consulting group) has said.

KYIV, Aug 18 – The Kyiv-based 410 Civil Aviation Plant, part of the Ukroboronprom State Concern, plans to start servicing western civil aircraft in 2018-2019, the press service of the concern has reported.

KYIV, Aug 18 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) plans to toughen requirements on audit firms and their employees authorized to audit banks, in particular, the central bank wants not to allow auditors who earlier took part in audits of banks as part of audit firms removed from the NBU register.

KIEV, Aug. 20 – Russia's share of Ukrainian food exports in H1 2015 was 2% compared to 8% in H1 2014, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko reported.

MOSCOW, Aug. 20 – The Nord Stream offshore gas pipeline from Russia to northern Europe was restarted at 7:00 a.m. Moscow time on Thursday after a nine-day scheduled shutdown for maintenance, European gas transport operators reported.

KIEV, Aug. 20 – Dmytro Firtash's Ostchem Holding has around 74,000 tons of nitric fertilizers held in the warehouses of its own distribution chain and most of this has been sold to consumers.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - The decline in industrial production in Ukraine in July 2015 slowed to 13.4% year-on-year from 18.1% in June, 20.7% in May, and 21.7% in April, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Coal stocks at Ukrainian thermal power plant warehouses shrank by 2%, or 26,700 tons, to 1.280 million tons from August 10 to August 17, national energy company Ukrenergo reported.