Why Ukraine and Europe still can’t unite commercial electricity markets
Issues include taxation of electricity trade, uncertainty about the number of exchanges, and indecision of the Ukrainian side
Ukraine is readying to launch Market Coupling, a process that will help reduce excessive concentration in the Ukrainian electricity market.
More than half of Ukraine’s electricity is generated by Energoatom, the state-owned nuclear power plant operator. Taken together, state-owned companies and Rinat Akhmetov’s DTEK energy holding account for over 90 percent in the electricity market.
On the other hand, DTEK Group provides more than half of the demand in the key market segment, the Day-Ahead Market (DAM).