The program to cheapen credits issued to households to make energy efficient steps will be extended to 2016, the press service of the State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine.

The agency said that the decision was approved at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

As reported, banks-participants of the state program to partially compensate the cost of credits taken for the modernization of heating and energy efficiency measures in the housing sector of Ukraine, since the start of its realization in 2014, and as of November 2, 2015, have provided 54,088 credits of UAH 888.5 million.