KIEV, Sept. 16 – Ukraine and the European Investment Bank have signed an agreement on the provision of a EUR 175 million credit to national energy company Ukrenergo for the construction of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP) to Kakhovska substation 750 kV overhead transmission line.

KIEV, Sept. 19 – Ukraine is planning to increase electricity generation by 1.3% or by 2.601 billion kilowatt hours in 2012, to 200.19 billion kilowatt hours compared to the expected level of electricity generation in 2011.

KIEV, Sept. 19 – The EU accident report form, which is being introduced in Ukraine from Sept. 19, 2011, will work in full on the insurance market in early 2013, President of Motor (Transport) Insurance Bureau of Ukraine (MTIBU), Volodymyr Romanishyn, said at a press conference last week in Kiev.

SOCHI, Sept. 17 - The price of natural gas to be supplied to Ukraine in the fourth quarter of 2010 will be “about $250 per 1,000 cubic meters,” and it will not change significantly in 2011, Gazprom Deputy CEO Valery Golubev said.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – The National Electricity Regulatory Commission will issue 10-year solar electricity generation licenses to Crimean Solar 1 Ltd. and Crimean Solar 2 Ltd. (both in Simferopol district).

KIEV, Sept. 16 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny will seek the return of $1.7 billion of RosUkrEnergo debt assigned under a contract with Russia's Gazprom, Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko said at a meeting of Parliament's temporary commission investigating a Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal ruling and the activities of RosUkrEnergo.

KIEV, Sept. 16 - Ukraine's economy can return to its pre-crisis level only in 2013, said Deputy Economy Minister Iryna Kriuchkova.

"We won't be able to return to the pre-crisis level in 2012," she said at a briefing on Thursday. "We won't manage."

KIEV, Sept. 17 – The solution of the situation related to the non-fulfillment of investment commitments by the owners of OJSC Zaporizhia Aluminum Plant (ZAlK) could be found within two or three weeks, according to First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev.

BERDYCHIV (Zhytomyr region), Sept. 17 – Ukraine is to construct 500 kilometers of national highways and the Ukrainian government will double funding for road construction in 2008, the leader of the Regions Party, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, said on Monday.

KREMENCHUK, Sept. 17 - Illich Iron & Steel Works, one of Ukraine's top three steel producers, will invest EUR400-500 million in a converter plant next year, Volodomyr Boiko, the company's CEO, said in Kremenchuk.