Energy service contracts. Opportunities and prospects in Ukraine

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  • Energy Service Contract, as an organizational, legal and financial mechanism that allows reducing consumption of energy resources through implementation of energy saving measures, has widely spread in the world’s developed countries within the last 40 years. Popularity of this mechanism could be explained primarily by its investment attractiveness, a possibility to combine the interests of customers and contractors of energy saving works including the suppliers of energy efficient equipment on a mutually advantageous basis. In addition, this mechanism allows resolving complex issues pertinent to attraction of necessary resources for implementation of energy efficiency projects.

    In the last years, the practice of implementation of energy service contracts was exposed to the research by scientists, entrepreneurs and financiers from different countries of the world; it is being discussed in specialized communities and publications; as it requires adaptation to the legal specifics and business traditions in each individual country.

    This experience is crucial for Ukraine as it currently only makes its first steps towards improvement of energy efficiency despite high energy intensity of its economy.

    The authors have summarized international experiences of implementation of energy service contracts, made an overview of effective European and Ukrainian legislation, as well as practical attempts to implement energy service in Ukraine, analyzed the barriers of its application and formulated proposals as to the ways to overcome those barriers.

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  • Published by: Deutsche Gesellschaft  für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Editors: Project “Establishment of Energy Agencies in Ukraine”, Arzinger Law Office

    On behalf of Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety

    Kyiv, 2015, 116 pages

  • Additional Information:
  • In the authors’ opinion, the publication would inform a broad circle of readers willing to obtain information on the state-of-art organizational and legal approaches to the ways of reduction of the consumption of the fuel and energy resources, primarily, potential recipients of energy services of the generally accepted concept of the energy service contracts, organizational and legal principles of their drafting and implementation. The authors believe that the publication may also be helpful for energy service providers as it contains an overview of some practical aspects.

  • Rights:
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

    Authors: Maryna Ilchuk, Oksana Reminska, Vitaliy Shapovalenko, Oleksandr Kyrychok
    Design and layout: Dmytro Shyshkov

  • Contact Information:
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
    Project “Establishment of Energy Agencies in Ukraine”
    16b, Antonovycha St.
    01001 Kyiv, Ukraine
    Tel.: +380 44 594 07 63

    Fax: +380 44 594 07 64
    E-mail: info@eeau.org.ua
    URL: www.eeau.org.ua
    URL: www.giz.de/ukraine-ua

     

     

  • Languages:
  • English, Ukrainian
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