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Forum "Energy of Freedom: Resilience and New Opportunities for the Energy Storage Systems Market in Ukraine"

In the face of challenges to our energy system, storage technologies are becoming the key to energy security, stability, and the construction of a decentralized, modern grid.
20 Nov 2025
Kyiv
13:30-18:00
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Energy Club is a community of energy professionals that brings together experts, analysts and company executives to exchange knowledge, experience and ideas. We are committed to developing the energy sector and supporting its participants in an environment of constant change. Energy Club regularly holds conferences, forums and seminars dedicated to current energy issues.

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Forum Goal

To unite key market players—business, investors, regulators, and government representatives—to discuss practical steps for the industry’s development. We will focus on creating a transparent market that will strengthen Ukraine’s energy independence.

Key topics for discussion

  • State strategy and regulatory environment: How to simplify project launches and stimulate investment?
  • Business models and investments: How to make energy storage profitable? We will examine real case studies of operating in the balancing market, price arbitrage, and project payback.
  • Technologies and experience: Analysis of the first implemented projects in Ukraine. What technologies are optimal for Ukrainian realities?
  • New opportunities for consumers: How do storage systems ensure autonomy and savings for businesses during power outages?

Who is this Forum for

 

Industrial Enterprises

(Metallurgy, mining, processing complexes)

  • Current Challenges: Ensuring the continuity of critical technological processes and high dependence of production on grid stability.
  • Solution: We will discuss how energy storage systems (ESS) ensure operational stability, protect high-tech equipment, and increase the competitiveness of your enterprise.

Agricultural Sector

(Agricultural holdings, elevators, processing)

  • Current Challenges: The need for a stable power supply during peak seasonal work (harvesting, drying, storage) and optimization of high energy costs.
  • Solution: We will review real case studies on how ESS provide energy independence during key periods, help reduce production costs, and protect crops.

Retail and Logistics

(Shopping malls, retail chains, cold storage facilities)

  • Current Challenges: Ensuring the uninterrupted operation of cold chains, warehouse, and cash register systems. Maintaining 24/7 customer service standards.
  • Solution: We will show how a guaranteed power supply helps prevent product spoilage, ensures operational stability, and supports continuous customer service.

City Councils, Municipalities (OTGs) and Critical Infrastructure

(Hospitals, schools, water utilities, communication)

  • Current Challenges: The need for 100% uninterrupted power supply for community life-support facilities.
  • Solution: We will analyze practical experience to ensure full energy resilience and the provision of basic public services under any conditions.

The forum will also be useful for:

  • Investors considering projects in the Ukrainian energy sector.
  • Manufacturers and suppliers of technological solutions.
  • Representatives of specialized state institutions and organizations.

Join us in shaping the future of Ukrainian energy!

The detailed program will be announced later. Stay tuned for updates.

Moderators

Andriy Kulykov - journalist, TV and radio host, media expert
Maksym Nemchynov - Vice President of Energy Club, former Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine

Event program

13:30-14:00
13:30-14:00
Registration and welcome coffee
14:00 – 15:45
14:00 – 15:45
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Panel 1. Strategy, Investment, and Business Models: How to Make the BESS Market in Ukraine Profitable?

Key issues for discussion:

  • Investment models for energy storage installations (Energy Storage System as a separate facility; Energy Storage System as part of a solar power plant; Energy Storage System as part of an enterprise)
    Speaker: Yuriy Podolyak (CEO of Iknet)
  • Expanding the horizons of solar energy with the HSAT HORIZON tracker
    Speaker: Andriy Antonov (Technical Director of Solar Stalkonstruktsiya LLC)
  • Practical cases of BESS project implementation
    Speaker: Vitaly Nikolayenko (CEO of Voltage Group)
  • How energy storage systems are changing the rules of the game. The role of BESS and RES in the new market architecture
    Speaker: Natalia Korobenko (Regulatory Manager, Elementum Energy (Ukraine))
  • Why energy storage systems are becoming the point of greatest vulnerability — and greatest responsibility
    Speaker: Denis Lyubchenko (Director, LLC IPVK “SPETSZAKHYST”)
  • Ensuring the continuity of critical technological processes and high dependence of production on grid stability.
    Speaker: Roman Dremlyukh, Head of LLC PowerU
Speakers:
Yurii Podoliak - CEO of IKNET
Andrii Antonov - Technical Director, Solar Steelconstruction LLC
Andriy Kobolyev - Founder and CEO of ENEY
Oleksandr Dombrovskyi - Vice-President, Head of Energy Innovations and Energy efficiency of MHP; President of MHP Eco Energy; Chairman of the Board of the Public union Global 100 RE UKRAINE
Vitalii Nykolaienko - CEO of Voltage Group
Natalia Korobenko - Regulatory Affairs Manager, Elementum Energy (Ukraine)
Denis Liubchenko - Director of EPPC SPETSZASHCHITA LLC
Roman Dremlyukh - Head of PowerU LLC
Ivan Grygoruk - vice president of Energy Club
15:45 – 16:15
15:45 – 16:15
Coffee break, networking
16:15 – 18:00
16:15 – 18:00
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Panel 2. The "Bankable" Project: How to Finance, Legalize, and Technologically Implement BESS

Key questions for discussion:

  • How to make a storage project “bankable”? What financial instruments are available? Risk assessment and payback from the bank’s point of view
    Speaker: Roman Lukyanchuk, Head of the Industry and Energy Department of JSC “Ukreximbank”
  • Arbitrage trading model in the electricity market using SZE – a legal perspective and practical advice.
    Speaker: Maksym Fedotov, lawyer, CEO and founder of the law firm “FEDOTOV&PARTNERS”.
  • Distributed energy: Phoenix Contact’s portfolio for smart grids.
    Speaker: Pavlo Osinsky, Product Manager of LLC “PHOENIX CONTACT”.
  • On opportunities and challenges for energy storage installations in the electricity market, in particular: PSPs and BESS. The role and place of energy storage facilities in the electricity market, in particular: PSPs and BESS.
    Speaker: Vyacheslav Babich, Deputy Director of the Commercial Department of PJSC “Ukrhydroenergo”.
  • Ukrainian shunting energy hubs: investments that create independence.
    Speaker: Oleksiy Tomash, Commercial Director of the Energy Direction of the Investment and Engineering Group EDS.
Speakers:
Roman Lukianchuk - Head of Industry and Energy Department, JSC Ukreximbank
Oleksii Hnatenko - Partner, Dispute Resolution Practice, Juscutum
Maksym Fedotov - attorney, CEO and Founder of the law firm "FEDOTOV&PARTNERS"
Pavlo Osinsky - Product Manager at Phoenix Contact Ukraine
Vyacheslav Babich - Deputy Director of the Department for Commerce of PJSC “Ukrhydroenergo”
Oleksii Tomash - Commercial Director of the Energy Division of the EDS Investment and Engineering Group
Yevhen Miachyn - Director of the Corporate Business Development & Support Department of Oschadbank
Ivan Grygoruk - vice president of Energy Club

Terms of participation

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Free for 3 representatives of Energy Club member companies (prior registration required)

Speakers

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Yurii Podoliak

CEO of IKNET

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Andrii Antonov

Technical Director, Solar Steelconstruction LLC

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Andriy Kobolyev

Founder and CEO of ENEY

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Oleksandr Dombrovskyi

Vice-President, Head of Energy Innovations and Energy efficiency of MHP; President of MHP Eco Energy; Chairman of the Board of the Public union Global 100 RE UKRAINE

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Vitalii Nykolaienko

CEO of Voltage Group

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Natalia Korobenko

Regulatory Affairs Manager, Elementum Energy (Ukraine)

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Denis Liubchenko

Director of EPPC SPETSZASHCHITA LLC

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Roman Lukianchuk

Head of Industry and Energy Department, JSC Ukreximbank

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Oleksii Hnatenko

Partner, Dispute Resolution Practice, Juscutum

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Maksym Fedotov

attorney, CEO and Founder of the law firm "FEDOTOV&PARTNERS"

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Vyacheslav Babich

Deputy Director of the Department for Commerce of PJSC “Ukrhydroenergo”

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Oleksii Tomash

Commercial Director of the Energy Division of the EDS Investment and Engineering Group

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Roman Dremlyukh

Head of PowerU LLC

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Yevhen Miachyn

Director of the Corporate Business Development & Support Department of Oschadbank

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Ivan Grygoruk

vice president of Energy Club

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The organizers reserve the right to make changes to the event program, including changes to the time, venue and speakers.

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Andrii Kostrytsia

President of the Energy Club

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Inha Varlamova

office administrator

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Liubov Asauliuk

accountant

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