War and Energy: Weekly Review of Developments in Ukraine
Attacks on Naftogaz facilities continue, while the regulator and ministries change the rules for household solar plants, grid connections and fuel supply in frontline communities.
Key developments of the week
- Since the start of 2026, Russia has carried out 293 attacks on Naftogaz Group facilities, 13 of them during the past week.
- As of 1 August, 58% of residential buildings, about 63% of social facilities and over 60% of boiler houses had been prepared for the 2026/27 heating season. Reserves are being built up in parallel in case of attacks on critical infrastructure.
- A bill has been registered in the Verkhovna Rada to extend the State Programme for the Decommissioning of the Chornobyl NPP until 2036. It provides for the final shutdown and conservation of three power units, management of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste, and remediation of the consequences of the Russian strike on the New Safe Confinement. Funding needs through 2036 are estimated at UAH 50.8 billion, of which UAH 45.6 billion is to come from the state budget and UAH 5.24 billion from international technical assistance.
- Energoatom is due to get a new head and an updated management board no later than October 2026; the competition for the chief executive position is expected to conclude in September.
- In July, the Ukraine Energy Support Fund received EUR 180 million in grants from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland and signed contracts for the supply of critical equipment worth EUR 78.4 million. In addition, Ukrainian energy companies received equipment under previously concluded Fund contracts worth EUR 29.4 million.
- The Ministry of Finance is preparing a legal mechanism for mobile filling stations to operate in communities where stationary stations have been destroyed or cannot operate safely because of the threat of Russian attacks.
- NEURC changed the payment rules for household solar plants. The "green" tariff will apply only to generation within set hours: 04:00–23:00 from April to October and 06:00–21:00 from November to March. Electricity supplied outside these windows, or above the installation's contracted capacity in a given hour, will be paid at the hourly day-ahead market price, but not above the price at which electricity is supplied to the consumer.
- The regulator introduced a flexible grid connection mechanism. It allows use of the existing non-firm reserve of network capacity without waiting for full grid reinforcement, but with the possibility of curtailing injection or offtake of electricity in case of network congestion.