Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
The National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities is clarifying the circumstances of the electricity sale auction 27 October, during which D.Trading LLC bought more electricity than usual ahead of a planned price increase in day-ahead market bids.
“NKREKP has initiated an inquiry into the operation of the wholesale electricity market related to the auction held on 27 October 2026 at which PJSC NAEC Energoatom sold electricity on Ukrainian Energy Exchange and the subsequent rise in day-ahead market prices on 28 October 2026,” the company said.
Recall that recently the chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Housing and Communal Services, Andriy Herus, appealed to Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi demanding the immediate dismissal of the management of SE Energoatom-Trading, which organized the auction, and called for an investigation of the auction itself, including by the Ministry of Energy, NKREKP, and the company’s supervisory board.
The committee noted that on 27 October Energoatom in the morning sold 2 000 MW of base load for 1–10 November, and later that same day sharply raised the price by 82,8%.
The committee believes that only one trader could have received insider information in time — the deputy director of D.Trading LLC (DTEK group) 26 October was present at a meeting at the Ministry of Energy where the price increase was discussed. Other buyers and state traders were not invited to the meeting.
It is also suspicious that the next morning D.Trading bought 315 MW at the auction immediately, although for the previous ten-day period it had purchased only 45 MW.
This is not the first such case. For example, in July Energoatom and Ukrhydroenergo sharply lowered prices during sales of electricity for the following two months during trading, causing Energoatom to earn nearly 50 million UAH less. And in January this year, due to a possible collusion between market participants and Energoatom, concluded agreements led to a shortfall of about 2 billion UAH. After the information became public, D.Trading, which was one of the bidders, announced the early termination of the contract.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "НКРЕКП перевіряє аукціон «Енергоатома» 27 жовтня після заяв про можливий витік інформації". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: ZN.ua.