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

Fuel energy complex associations

Power generation

Oil/gas and oil refinery industries

Small share participants

Former members

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 temporally merged the ministry with the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources by Honcharuk Government. But the succeeding Shmyhal Government re-created the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources.

List of ministers

Coal mining

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