21.03.2025
Stanislav Ignatiev is Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Chairman of the Council of the Ukrainian Renewable Energy Association, founder of the Kharkiv Energy Cluster. Currently, Stanislav Yevgenyevich lectures and conducts practical classes on renewable energy under the program “EnergoStart: Training for the Future” from Energy Club.
Therefore, the participants of the training – representatives of territorial communities, investors and businesses, public activists, ecologists – have a unique opportunity to listen to the program that students of the best universities in the country study, and to gain knowledge from a teacher from the Yuriy Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic National University. In this university, as before and in the Kharkiv National University named after Karazin, Stanislav Ignatiev teaches his author’s course on distributed generation, in particular – green energy. With the listeners of the EnergoStart program in the Energy Club, he shares accumulated information on important topics, materials and presentations for independent work.
– For 5 years I worked as the executive director of an energy company – Solar Generation LLC, which is among the TOP-15 in Ukraine according to Forbes, – said Stanislav Yevgenovich. – So I offer real business cases from my experience – how to write projects, choose a site, connect to networks, how to draw up business plans and Cash Flow, how to contact financial institutions and implement the plan. I think this is quite important, because representatives of territorial communities (and there are also representatives of DTEK and business at the training, who are more technically knowledgeable) do not have special theoretical and practical experience in implementing distributed generation projects. But for them it is necessary, and the next 5-7 years will be a way of survival and creating comfortable conditions for the work of primarily social sphere facilities in territorial communities, regardless of their remoteness from the front line.
– The Energy Club initiative is very important and necessary, – Stanislav Ignatiev emphasized. – Communities must form an understanding of the need to implement distributed generation projects. Last year in Ukraine there was such an experience when, under the energy security project, USAID provided equipment for cogeneration plants, that is, distributed equipment, and communities did not understand that resources needed to be attracted to connect it. And these plants are a dead weight, despite the fact that they are extremely needed on the ground. Accordingly, the transfer of knowledge, skills and own experience of lecturers helps representatives of territorial communities to become more capable in the field of building decentralized generation.
Given his broad competence, Stanislav Ignatiev is a regular speaker at Energy Club events on various issues of the energy industry. “I am very pleased to cooperate with Energy Club. I like both the composition of participants – experts from various fields, and the team of performers,” he added.
Stanislav Ignatiev – Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Chairman of the Council Chairman of the Council of the Ukrainian Association of Renewable Energy, founder of the Kharkiv Energy Cluster.
For five years, he was the executive director (CEO) of Solar Generation LLC, performed the function of a crisis manager, reformatting the business, achieving a net profit of 335 million UAH. per year.
Experience in project management of 110 MW solar power plants and 25 MW wind power plants from the “green field” development stage, obtaining permits to commissioning and subsequent operation management.
Optimized business management processes through automation of dispatch control and generation forecasting.
Developed and prepared investment projects in “green” energy to the “ready to build” stage: 180 MW solar power plants, 45 MW gas piston power plants, 52 MW wind.
In the Office of the President of Ukraine in 2021-2022, he led the development group of the President’s Program “Great Thermal Modernization”: from team formation, creation of a KPI system, organization of “brainstorming” and “strategic sessions” to the presentation of the Program at the level of the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, a profile deputy of the Office of the President, and the President of Ukraine.
Chairman of the Council of the Ukrainian Renewable Energy Association, which unites 82 electricity generating companies. Public lobbying for regulatory and legal acts that ensure transparency and efficiency of the electricity market. Systematic public speeches at the largest industry forums and conferences in Ukraine and Europe.
Founder of the Kharkiv Energy Cluster – the largest association of 38 small and medium-sized businesses in Ukraine (energy, construction, law, and financial management).
In addition, Stanislav Ignatiev was the head of non-extractive projects in the Kharkiv region of Shell Ukraine LLC, and as the director of WSB Ukraine LLC, he established the international energy holding WSB Green Energy in Ukraine. As the head of the Ukrenergo Laboratories project of PJSC NPC Ukrenergo, he made a lot of efforts to create a positive image of the company, form a personnel reserve, and collect innovative ideas for the development of the national electricity transmission system operator.
Honorary Professor of the European Institute of Second Education (Slovakia), MBA in Sustainable Energy, London School of Economics, Ph.D. in Energy, Dresden University of Technology (Germany). Speaks English, Polish, and German.
The material was prepared within the framework of the program “EnergoStart: Training for the Future” program, implemented with the support of the project ‘Promoting Energy Efficiency and Implementation of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive in Ukraine’, implemented by GIZ Ukraine on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and co-financed by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of GIZ Ukraine, BMZ or SECO.
