KIEV, June 17 - Electricity consumption in Ukraine in January to May, taking into account losses in electricity transmission, fell by 14.2% or 11.675 billion kilowatt-hours year-on-year, to 70.59 billion kilowatt-hours, the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, June 18 – KfW a German development bank, is to earmark up to EUR65,000 to Haase Energietechnik AG (Germany) for research work on a domestic waste landfill in Kremenchuk (Poltava region) under a waste recycling improvement project, said Christian Doerner, the director of KfW's Kiev office.

KIEV, June 16 – The Association of Farmers and Private Landowners is to go on a nationwide strike in the latter half of June in order to draw the authorities' attention to their problems: the lack of financing, vulnerability because of the expansion of large capital and big agri-businesses.

KIEV, June 17 – The Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (UUIE) is supporting the construction of a steel-rolling plant in Kiev region, the UUIE told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, June 17 – Austria's Pan Plan plans to invest EUR 120 million in the restoration of 15 historical objects in Lviv region, the Regional Development and Construction Ministry reported.

ZAPORIZHIA, June 17 – Russia's RusAl has confirmed its plans to continue to upgrade and develop its assets in Ukraine – Zaporizhia Aluminum Mill (ZAlK) and Mykolaiv Aluminous Plant Ltd., RusAl director for international and special projects, Alexander Livshits said during his visit to ZAlK on the 75th anniversary of its launch.

KIEV, June 17 – AMAKO Ukraine Ltd., a subsidiary of American Machinery Company, a producer and distributor of farming equipment, is mulling the construction of a plant in Ukraine to manufacture irrigation equipment.

KIEV, June 18 - Ukraine will next year start production of uranium from Novokonstantynivske, one of the country's largest uranium deposits, as the government seeks to increasingly rely on nuclear energy over the next decade.

KIEV, June 15 ??“ Kiev??™s XXI Century Developing Company announced it is to build the Petrovka business center at Moskovsky Avenue near the Petrovka subway station.

KIEV, June 15 - The production cost of biodiesel fuel made from rape in Ukraine is higher than oil-based diesel fuel, according to experts interviewed by Interfax-Ukraine during an Alternative Fuel and Energy Efficiency international conference in Kiev.