Renewable Energy Solutions Programme (“RES Programme”)

Fund­ed by the Ger­man Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment and the Inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Ini­tia­tive (IKI), the “Renew­able Ener­gy Solu­tions (RES)” Pro­gramme is set-up as a grant agree­ment between the Gov­ern­ment of Ukraine and the Euro­pean Invest­ment Bank (EIB). Joint­ly imple­ment­ed by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inter­na­tionale Zusam­me­nar­beit (GIZ) GmbH and Unit­ed Nations Devel­op­ment Pro­gramme (UNDP) — act­ing as the Pro­cure­ment Agent on behalf of the Min­istry for Com­mu­ni­ties and Ter­ri­to­ries Devel­op­ment of Ukraine, it aims to sup­port decen­tralised expan­sion of renew­able ener­gy in Ukraine on crit­i­cal infra­struc­ture. The Pro­gramme is part of Ukraine’s broad­er green recov­ery goals and aims to strength­en ener­gy inde­pen­dence and com­mu­ni­ty resilience amid the ongo­ing war.​​

The total budget of the programme is EUR 20,000,000. Within this project, GIZ implements a programme with a budget of EUR 3,000,000, led by Elise Vigier.

Key features

3 goals

— Select­ed munic­i­pal­i­ties are equipped with invest­ment-ready project design doc­u­men­ta­tion for renew­able ener­gy sys­tems on crit­i­cal pub­lic infra­struc­ture, lay­ing the ground­work for fur­ther financ­ing and imple­men­ta­tion.​​

— Through tar­get­ed train­ing and men­tor­ing, munic­i­pal staff devel­op the skills and insti­tu­tion­al capa­bil­i­ties nec­es­sary to over­see and main­tain renew­able ener­gy infra­struc­ture.​​

— Through one pilot project, a strate­gic roadmap empow­ers pub­lic insti­tu­tions to tran­si­tion into active con­sumers by con­nect­ing to the grid and feed­ing in excess clean ener­gy.​​

2 target groups

RES Pro­gramme will focus on crit­i­cal pub­lic build­ings (schools and hos­pi­tals) across Ukraine, where renew­able ener­gy solu­tions will enable key ser­vices to func­tion dur­ing black­outs, there­by improv­ing com­mu­ni­ties’ resilience. ​​

Envisioned impact

— Small-scale decen­tralised renew­able ener­gy mea­sures on pub­lic crit­i­cal objects become a pow­er­ful solu­tion for munic­i­pal­i­ties’ ener­gy sup­ply strat­e­gy.​​

— Schools and hos­pi­tals increase their ener­gy secu­ri­ty dur­ing blackouts​.​

— RES con­tributes to strength­en­ing Ukraine’s ener­gy inde­pen­dence, sta­bil­i­ty, and resilience in a cli­mate friend­ly man­ner, on its way to the EU inte­gra­tion.​​

— Com­mu­ni­ties have been empow­ered through tar­get­ed sup­port to build their knowl­edge and skills need­ed to design, man­age, and dri­ve for­ward renew­able ener­gy projects.​​