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Ukraine can technically import about 2 GW of electricity from Europe, but this resource will not be utilized fully if the rules and price caps of the Ukrainian market remain incompatible with the European ones. This was stated by Volodymyr Kudrytskyy, the chairman of the board of Ukrenergo, in 2020–2024 years.
According to him, technical capacity of cross-border links by itself does not guarantee imports. If electricity in Europe costs more than the price at which it is allowed to be sold in Ukraine, commercially bringing such a resource in becomes unprofitable.
«But these 2000 MW will never enter the Ukrainian energy system if the rules by which it operates on the Ukrainian market are not aligned with European ones», Kudrytskyy noted.
He reminded that such a situation already occurred last winter: despite a power deficit and outages, imports did not enter due to the difference between Ukrainian and European market prices.
«Last winter we all sat in outages, the price on the Ukrainian wholesale market was artificially restrained, while the price on the European market was higher and imports simply did not come in, and this is another problem», Kudrytskyy said.
Earlier, market participants and industry experts proposed raising the maximum price caps by at least 20% so that price restrictions would not hinder electricity imports and the operation of swing generation during periods of deficit.
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