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 governance of the Fuel-Energy Complex ensuring the realization of 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
Fuel energy complex associations
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. About the transfer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to the Ministry of Emergencies (official document) 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 2010–2019 Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining 2019-2020 Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection since 2020 Ministry of Energy
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).New Cabinet formed in Ukraine The Rada appointed the new Cabinet: Avakov and Markarova remained (РАДА ПРИЗНАЧИЛА НОВИЙ КАБМІН: АВАКОВ І МАРКАРОВА ЛИШИЛИСЬ), Ukrayinska Pravda (29 August 2019) But the succeeding Shmyhal Government re-created the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (on 27 May 2020).Govt backs separation of ecology ministry from Energy and Environmental Protection Ministry, Interfax-Ukraine (27 May 2020)
List of ministers Energy and electrification Prime Minister(s) Name Term of office Start EndOleksiy Makukhin27 November 197111 May 1982Vitaliy Skliarov11 May 19823 January 1993Anatoliy Hrytsenko3 January 199317 August 1993Vilen Semeniuk17 August 19933 July 1995Oleksiy Sheberstov3 July 199513 June 1996(acting)13 June 19961 July 1996Yuriy Bochkaryov1 July 19966 May 1997In 1997 it was replaced with Ministry of Energy
Energy Prime Minister(s) Name Term of office Start EndIn 1997 it was established in place of Ministry of Energy and ElectrificationPavlo LazarenkoYuriy Bochkaryov19971997Valeriy PustovoitenkoOleksiy Sheberstov19971999Ivan Plachkov19991999
Fuel and energy Prime Minister(s) Name Term of office Start EndIn 1999 it was established in place of Ministry of EnergyViktor Yushchenko Serhiy Tulub 1999 2000 Serhiy Yermilov 2000 2001 Stanislav Stashevshkyi 2001 2001 Anatoliy Kinakh Vitaliy Haiduk 2001 2002Viktor Yanukovych Serhiy Yermilov 2002 2004 Serhiy Tulub 2004 2005 Yuriy Yekhanurov Ivan Plachkov September 2005 January 2006 Viktor Yanukovych Yuriy Boiko January 2006(acting until August) December 2007 Yulia Tymoshenko Yuriy Prodan December 2007 March 2010 Mykola Azarov Yuriy Boiko March 2010 December 2010In 2010 Ministry of Fuel and Energy was liquidated and merged
Coal mining Ministry of Coal Mining of Ukraine existed at least since 1954. Prime Minister(s) Name Term of office Start Endno information19871994Vitaliy MasolViktor Poltavets19941995Yevhen MarchukSerhiy Polyakov19951996Pavlo LazarenkoYuriy Rusantsov19961997Valeriy PustovoitenkoStanislav Yanko19971998Serhiy Tulub19981999no information19992005Yuriy YekhanurovViktor Topolov20052006Serhiy Tulub20062007Yulia TymoshenkoViktor Poltavets20072010Mykola AzarovYuriy Yashchenko20102010In 2010 Ministry of Coal Mining was liquidated and merged
Energy and coal mining Prime Minister(s) Name Term of office Start EndIn 2010 Ministry of Fuel and Energy merged with Ministry of Coal MiningMykola Azarov Yuriy Boiko December 2010 24 December 2012Eduard StavytskyYanukovych appoints new Cabinet of Ministers, Kyiv Post (24 December 2012)24 December 201227 February 2014Arseniy YatsenyukYuriy ProdanРАДА ОБРАЛА НОВИЙ УРЯД | Українська правда27 February 20142 December 2014Rada supports coalition-proposed government lineup, Interfax-Ukraine (2 December 2014)Rada approves new Cabinet with three foreigners, Kyiv Post (2 December 2014) Rada voted the new Cabinet, Ukrayinska Pravda (2 December 2014)Volodymyr Demchyshyn2 December 201414 April 2016New Cabinet formed in Ukraine, UNIAN (14 April 2016)Volodymyr GroysmanIhor Nasalyk14 April 201629 August 2019In 2020 Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining was liquidated and merged
Energy and environmental protection Prime Minister(s) Name Term of office Start EndIn 2019 ministry of Energy and Coal Mining merged with Ministry of Ecology and Natural ResourcesOleksiy HoncharukOleksiy Orzhel29 August 20194 March 2020Ukraine’s new Cabinet of MinistersDenys ShmyhalVitaliy Shubin (acting minister)11 March 202016 April 2020Olha Buslavets (acting minister)16 April 202027 May 2020
Energy Prime Minister(s) Name Term of office Start EndIn 2020 Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources split into a Ministry of Energy and a separate ministry for Environmental ProtectionDenys ShmyhalOlha Buslavets (acting minister)27 May 202020 November 2020Yuriy Boyko (acting minister)20 November 2020Cabinet goes for top reshuffle in energy ministry, UNIAN (20 November 2020)21 December 2020Yuriy Vitrenko (acting minister)21 December 2020 The government appointed Vitrenko acting Minister of Energy, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 December 2020)29 April 2021Herman Halushchenko The Rada appointed Galushchenko Minister of Energy, Ekononominska Pravda (29 April 2021)29 April 202117 July 2025Yulia SvyrydenkoSvitlana Hrynchuk17 July 202519 November 2025Artem Nekrasov (acting minister)19 November 202514 January 2026Denys Shmyhal14 January 2026
See also Nuclear power in Ukraine Ministry of Emergencies (Ukraine) Ministry of Industrial Policy (Ukraine) DTEK List of power stations in Ukraine
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