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UK government supports Innovate Ukraine green energy programme

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The UK and Ukraine have launched Innovate Ukraine, a programme to support 13 green energy projects with a £16m investment from the UK government.

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The programme aims to rebuild Ukraine’s energy system, displace fossil fuels, and support post-war recovery. It will leverage an additional £5m in private sector co-investment and involves collaborations between over 50 UK and Ukrainian organisations.

In a statement, Herman Halushchenko, Ukrainian Minister of Energy, said: “We have a chance to demonstrate that the struggle for energy independence is a fight for the future. The green transition goes way beyond ecology or distributed generation. For Ukraine, this is a matter of national security. I am sure that the implementation of the project in the field of green technologies is of great importance for the future cooperation between Ukraine and the UK in the energy sector.”

In one of the projects, Aston University and the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine will work with Heat Pumps VDE LLC and other partners on a new space heating technology that makes heat pumps ‘significantly easier’ to retrofit into existing domestic heating systems.

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