THE TWELFTH FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC FORUM
30 July 2015
The Twelfth Financial and Economic Forum, Implementation of Energy Service Agreements: The Guarantee of Reduced Energy Dependence of the Government-Funded Sector, took place on 30 July 2015.The forum was held under the aegis of the Municipal Finance Strengthening Initiative Roll-out (MFSI-II) Project implemented by the Institute for Budgetary and Socio-Economic Research (IBSER) with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Attendees included First Deputy Head of the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine Oleksiy Korchmit; USAID Senior Energy and Local Finance Specialist Andriy Nesterenko; EBRD Department of Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Senior Manager Serhiy Malichenko; USAID Municipal Energy Reform in Ukraine Project Chief of Party Lawrence Good; NEFCO Representative Office to Ukraine Head Yulia Shevchuk; Mayor of Zaporizhzhya Oleksandr Sin; Mayor of Cherkasy Serhiy Odarych; First Deputy Mayor of Chernihiv Mykola Myrhorodskyi; Deputy Mayor of Vinnytsya Halyna Yakubovych; Director of the Public Private Partnership Development Center State Enterprise Yevhen Radchenko; Vice-President of the Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving Association Ivan Lysyi; Head of Energy Auditors' Association Andriy Tsybulko; Head of the Kyiv Energy Efficiency Center of the Kyiv City Administrative and Public Buildings Energy Saving Project Implementation Team Municipal Enterprise Vadym Lytvyn; Director of the Department of Industry, Entrepreneurship, and Investments at the Dnipropetrovsk City Council Oleksandr Hondar; Director of the Department of Budget and Finance of the Zhytomyr City Council Serhiy Harashchuk; Director of the Department of Finance of the Vinnytsya City Council Natalia Lutsenko; Chief Consultant of YurEnergoConsulting Law Firm Iryna Zapatrina; Partner of Antika Law Firm Oleksandr Bortovyi; Leader of Energy Efficiency Project Team at DTEK Roman Fedorchenko; as well as representatives of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine, local governments, business community, and the civil sector.
During the Forum, the participants reviewed and discussed issues related to the potential for raising the energy efficiency of government-funded institutions, special features of energy service agreements, experience of using energy performance contracts in government-funded institutions, specifically, those related to concluding and implementing energy service agreements in practice such as the methodology of determining the baseline consumption of fuel and energy resources and housing and communal services in the City of Kyiv. EBRD delivered a presentation on its program for financing energy efficiency of government-funded institutions and energy performance contracts. The City of Kyiv, and Presentations were also given by the City of Dnipropetrovsk regarding its practical experience in applying energy service agreements, and by the City of Zaporizhzhya about the prospects for implementing energy services in the government-funded sector of the city.
Recommendations will be prepared based on the meetings outcomes and disseminated among all the stakeholders, and subsequently posted on the Institute's website.
Attendees included First Deputy Head of the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine Oleksiy Korchmit; USAID Senior Energy and Local Finance Specialist Andriy Nesterenko; EBRD Department of Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Senior Manager Serhiy Malichenko; USAID Municipal Energy Reform in Ukraine Project Chief of Party Lawrence Good; NEFCO Representative Office to Ukraine Head Yulia Shevchuk; Mayor of Zaporizhzhya Oleksandr Sin; Mayor of Cherkasy Serhiy Odarych; First Deputy Mayor of Chernihiv Mykola Myrhorodskyi; Deputy Mayor of Vinnytsya Halyna Yakubovych; Director of the Public Private Partnership Development Center State Enterprise Yevhen Radchenko; Vice-President of the Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving Association Ivan Lysyi; Head of Energy Auditors' Association Andriy Tsybulko; Head of the Kyiv Energy Efficiency Center of the Kyiv City Administrative and Public Buildings Energy Saving Project Implementation Team Municipal Enterprise Vadym Lytvyn; Director of the Department of Industry, Entrepreneurship, and Investments at the Dnipropetrovsk City Council Oleksandr Hondar; Director of the Department of Budget and Finance of the Zhytomyr City Council Serhiy Harashchuk; Director of the Department of Finance of the Vinnytsya City Council Natalia Lutsenko; Chief Consultant of YurEnergoConsulting Law Firm Iryna Zapatrina; Partner of Antika Law Firm Oleksandr Bortovyi; Leader of Energy Efficiency Project Team at DTEK Roman Fedorchenko; as well as representatives of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine, local governments, business community, and the civil sector.
During the Forum, the participants reviewed and discussed issues related to the potential for raising the energy efficiency of government-funded institutions, special features of energy service agreements, experience of using energy performance contracts in government-funded institutions, specifically, those related to concluding and implementing energy service agreements in practice such as the methodology of determining the baseline consumption of fuel and energy resources and housing and communal services in the City of Kyiv. EBRD delivered a presentation on its program for financing energy efficiency of government-funded institutions and energy performance contracts. The City of Kyiv, and Presentations were also given by the City of Dnipropetrovsk regarding its practical experience in applying energy service agreements, and by the City of Zaporizhzhya about the prospects for implementing energy services in the government-funded sector of the city.
Recommendations will be prepared based on the meetings outcomes and disseminated among all the stakeholders, and subsequently posted on the Institute's website.
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