Ministry of Energy (Ukraine)

The Ministry of Energy is responsible for energy in Ukraine.

The government ministry was originally formed in the 1970s as the Ministry of Energy and Electrification.

Functions

 * state governing of the Fuel-Energy Complex
 * ensuring the realization of the state policies in the Fuel-Energy Complex
 * ensuring energy security of the State
 * participation in the formation, regulation, and improvement of the fuel-energy resource market
 * developing proposals to improve economic incentives in stimulation of the Fuel-Energy Complex development

Vectors of specialization

 * Power generation
 * Nuclear power
 * Oil and Gas industry
 * Coal mining

Power generation

 * National Nuclear Power-generating Company Energoatom
 * Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant
 * Rivne Nuclear Power Plant
 * South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant
 * Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
 * Donuzlav WES (Wind Power Plant)
 * other supporting companies
 * Sevastopol Institute of Nuclear Power an Industry
 * State Research Company "Tsyrkoniy"
 * Chornobyl Center on issues of Nuclear Security, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology
 * Industrial Reserve-Investment Fund in Development of Energy
 * Ukrenerhokomplekt
 * Ukrainian Nuclear Association
 * Ukrinterenergo
 * State Enterprise National Power Company Ukrenerho
 * Derzhenerhonahlyad (State Energy Supervision)
 * Derzhinspektsia (State Inspection)
 * Centrenergo
 * Ukrhydroenergo (100%)
 * Dniester Hydro-accumulating Power Station (87.4%)
 * others

Oil/gas and oil refinery industries

 * National Joint-Stock Company Naftogaz Ukrainy
 * Subsidiary Company Ukrgasproduction
 * Open Joint-Stock Company Ukrnafta (50% + 1)
 * Subsidiary Joint-Stock Company Chornomornaftogaz
 * Overseas branches
 * other enterprises

Small share participants

 * Donbasenergo (25.0%)
 * DTEK Dniproenergo (25.0%)

Former members

 * State Special Enterprise Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was created on July 11, 2001 on base of the former Energoatom's company of the same name. The company was basically recommissioned under a special jurisdiction for the further decommissioning of its nuclear power station. On July 15, 2005 the enterprise was transferred from under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy to the Ministry of Emergencies.
 * National Joint-Stock Company Energy Company of Ukraine

History
Previous names:
 * 1982–1997 Ministry of Energy and Electrification
 * 1997–1999 Ministry of Energy
 * 1999–2010 Ministry of Fuel and Energy
 * 2010–present Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining

The ministry also absorbed a separate Ministry of Coal Mining which existed since 1954 until 1999 and was revived in 2005-2010.

The Ministry was (as it turned out) temporally merged the ministry with the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources by Honcharuk Government (on 29 August 2019). But the succeeding Shmyhal Government re-created the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (on 27 May 2020).

Coal mining
Ministry of Coal Mining of Ukraine existed at least since 1954.