KIEV, Aug. 14 - The state has allocated UAH 500 million to compensate for the population's transfer from gas to solid fuel and plans to extend the program for recipients of subsidies, said Serhiy Savchuk, head of the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving has said.

KIEV, Aug. 14 - PrivatBank (Dnipropetrovsk) has postponed a meeting of the holders of eurobonds worth $200 million maturing on September 23, 2015 until August 27 due to a lack of quorum at a meeting held on August 13, according to a bank report on the website of the London Stock Exchange.

KIEV, Aug. 13 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is eyeing the allocation of EUR100 million for the modernization of public transportation infrastructures in a number of Ukrainian cities.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is mulling a EUR 10 million loan to the district heating utility municipally owned enterprise Chernivtsiteplokomunenergo, operating in the city of Chernivtsi, the EBRD said in a statement.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – Darnytsia combined heat and power plant has coal reserves for 1.5 winter months and guaranteed contracts for energy supply, which will fully provide the company with fuel for the entire heating season of 2015/2016, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

KIEV, Aug. 14 – Creative Group, one of the largest producers of fat and oil in Ukraine, is in talks with investors about the company's restructuring.

"Creative industrial group is in talks with investors over the company's restructuring for its further development. Details of the process cannot be made public until the end of talks," the press service of the company said.

KIEV, Aug. 14 – Ukraine's Ministry of Economic Development and Trade plans to hold talks with Egypt to discuss expanding trade and economic cooperation between the two countries, including on removing restrictions on the supply of Ukrainian steel products.

KIEV, Aug. 14 - Foreign direct investment in Ukraine in the form of share capital on July 1 amounted to $50.02 billion, which is $6.77 billion, or 11.9% less than at the beginning of the year, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – The Novosvit association (Vinnytsia) plans to construct a 140 kW solar power plant near a small hydropower plant in the Talne district of Cherkasy region, Novosvit Director General Serhiy Kulmatytsky said.

KIEV, Aug. 15 - Energoinvest (Vinnytsia) in September-October will launch two reconstructed small hydroelectric power plant, Energoinvest President Volodymyr Zhytnyk told Interfax-Ukraine.