In 2024, the food and agrotechnical holding MHP commissioned 18 MW of cogeneration units and 15 MW of solar power plants for its own needs, plans to make a final decision on the construction of a 60 MW wind power plant in March, said the chairman of the board of Global 100% RE Ukraine, President of PrJSC MHP Eco Energy Oleksandr Dombrovsky.

"If we sum up the results of 2024, then our company MHP and MHP Eco Energy, which specializes in the implementation of new energy technologies, have built and launched, in particular, several cogeneration systems with a total capacity of 18 MW and we plan to continue this work in 2025 so that we can produce electricity from gas and be as protected as possible," he said during a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine news agency on the topic "Sun, wind, biogas: how "green" energy will help Ukraine survive in 2025" on Thursday.

According to him, the next step is to build several more biogas complexes and convert cogeneration running on natural gas to biomethane (MHP currently continues to implement two projects for the production of biomethane).

He expressed the opinion that it would be advisable to create a motivation system for Ukrainian biomethane producers so that it would be profitable for them to use it domestically instead of exporting it. In addition, according to Dombrovsky, last year MHP built about 15 MW of solar generation for its own needs using the roofs of buildings and industrial enterprises.

He added that in this way the company has had a cheap resource for a long time, allowing it to balance its internal energy system.

At the same time, Dombrovsky emphasized that the basic key element of the integration of all modern generating technologies should be energy storage systems (ESS), which, among other things, perform the role of balancing.

"In December 2024, we connected, launched and are now introducing and testing all operating modes, the largest industrial storage, an ESS with a capacity of 2 MW for 4 MWh. In 2025, we plan to make it a multiplier. And this is a system that makes it possible to have a very high level of energy security within the company," explained the head of MHP Eco Energy.

He also commented on the issue of raising the Ukrenergo transmission tariff for 2024 (by almost 30%, to UAH 686.23/MWh), noting that this allows not to drive the entire energy system of Ukraine into debt, but on the other hand, additional tariffs place a certain burden on the cost of production.

At the same time, Dombrovsky called the MHP energy supply model very interesting in this context, in which the company is trying to create its own energy system, which makes it possible to move away from or reduce costs for the distribution and transmission of electricity. Regarding plans for 2025, Dombrovsky said that, most likely, the company would make a final decision in March on the construction of a 60 MW wind farm in one of the regions of Ukraine.

"January-February, these are the last two months when we complete the study of wind potential in accordance with the standards controlled and supported by the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association. And this will also be a real project, a very important one, where we will not only generate electricity, but also transform it into green hydrogen, as we are doing now in our laboratory," said the head of MHP Eco Energy.

"We are working with such technologies at the laboratory and pilot level, but it is possible that in 2025, I think this is 99%, that we will produce the first industrial green methane, green hydrogen," he noted.

Dombrovsky emphasized that the one who owns the best energy technologies will win the energy war.

"I will say more that the projects that are built, designed and operating in Ukraine today in all areas that we represent are some of the best projects in Europe. I would like everyone to know that Ukraine is absolutely technologically and innovatively not lagging behind in terms of the introduction and implementation of renewable energy technologies," he summed up.