RES advances decentralised renewable energy solutions for Ukrainian municipalities

The Renew­able Ener­gy Solu­tions (RES) pro­gramme con­tin­ues to sup­port Ukrain­ian munic­i­pal­i­ties in strength­en­ing ener­gy secu­ri­ty through decen­tralised renew­able ener­gy gen­er­a­tion for pub­lic infra­struc­ture.

As of June 2026, coop­er­a­tion agree­ments had been signed with 24 munic­i­pal­i­ties, cov­er­ing 60 pub­lic facil­i­ties. Fea­si­bil­i­ty stud­ies have been com­plet­ed for 30 facil­i­ties, with nine stud­ies cur­rent­ly under devel­op­ment. Tech­ni­cal design doc­u­men­ta­tion (PDD) has already been deliv­ered to part­ners for nine facil­i­ties, while four PDDs are under the state exper­tise process. At the same time, PDDs for a fur­ther 15 facil­i­ties are being pre­pared. Also, 27 facil­i­ties have been sub­mit­ted to the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment, Cli­mate Action, Nature Con­ser­va­tion and Nuclear Safe­ty for allo­ca­tion approval.

Along­side project devel­op­ment, RES has been work­ing to strength­en the enabling envi­ron­ment for munic­i­pal renew­able ener­gy invest­ments through stake­hold­er dia­logue on active con­sumer sta­tus and grid inte­gra­tion. This work sup­ports prac­ti­cal dis­cus­sions on how pub­lic insti­tu­tions can con­tribute sur­plus elec­tric­i­ty to the grid.

The pro­gramme is now enter­ing a new phase focused on expand­ing sup­port to addi­tion­al munic­i­pal­i­ties and iden­ti­fy­ing pilot projects that can demon­strate inno­v­a­tive green dis­trict heat­ing solu­tions. At the same time, new Ukrain­ian state exper­tise require­ments for con­struc­tion cost ver­i­fi­ca­tion (active­ly enforced since April 2026)  are increas­ing approval time­lines for projects. The process is high­ly admin­is­tra­tive and is fur­ther impact­ed by soft­ware plat­form reli­a­bil­i­ty issues, result­ing in an aver­age two-week exten­sion to exper­tise reviews. The mat­ter is affect­ing the entire indus­try and is cur­rent­ly under review by gov­ern­ment author­i­ties.

RES is imple­ment­ed by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inter­na­tionale Zusam­me­nar­beit (GIZ) GmbH in coop­er­a­tion with Unit­ed Nations Devel­op­ment Pro­gramme (UNDP), fund­ed by the by the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment, Cli­mate Action, Nature Con­ser­va­tion and Nuclear Safe­ty under the frame­work of the Inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Ini­tia­tive (IKI), and man­aged by the Euro­pean Invest­ment Bank (EIB).  

RES sup­ports Ukraine’s tran­si­tion towards ener­gy inde­pen­dence and resilience while con­tribut­ing to decar­bon­i­sa­tion and EU inte­gra­tion objec­tives.