In 2024, investors and developers prepared the largest number of wind energy projects in the last five years, for 4 GW, which allows to fully implement the National Plan for the Development of Renewable Energy Sources, Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association Andriy Konechenkov said.

"On the one hand, I called 2024 a failure, because the smallest amount of wind power capacity has been commissioned over the past five years. This is 20.6 MW, only four wind turbines. But, on the other hand, it is over the past five years that today there is the highest indicator of projects ready for construction at the level of 4 GW," he said at a press conference titled "Sun, wind and biogas: How green energy will help Ukraine survive in 2025" at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.

Konechenkov drew attention to the fact that the National Plan for the Development of Renewable Energy, approved in 2024 as part of the climate strategy, provides for the installation of exactly 4 GW of additional wind power capacity by 2030.

"That is, today the wind energy market is ready to fulfill the national plan," Konechenkov said. At the same time, he said the situation with the repayment of renewable energy generation debts from previous periods has improved somewhat, which, according to him, amounted to UAH 35 billion as of the middle of December 2024.

In addition, according to him, the renewable energy sector expects stable payment for green electricity in 2025 due to the adoption of Ukrenergo's tariff for transmission, which takes into account most of the costs of renewable energy sources.

"We expect that the situation will improve in 2025, because the regulator, the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities, adopted a transmission tariff [UAH 686.23 per MWh], which will not increase debts this year," Konechenkov said.

According to the UWEA chairman, it is necessary to increase the quota for wind energy at the so-called "green auctions," at which it is distributed as part of state support. "If we return again to the adopted National Plan for the Development of Renewable Energy Sources, which provides for exactly 4 GW of wind power plants over five years, then the auctions should provide us with annual quotas at the level of 800 MW. Then we can say that the national plan will be fulfilled," Konechenkov said.

As reported with reference to Konechenkov at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on December 12, since the beginning of 2024, up to 20 MW of new wind power plant (WPP) capacities have been commissioned in Ukraine, in particular, two turbines of 5.5 MW each of Eco Optima LLC and two of 4.8 MW in Ostrovsky wind farm of Wind Parks of Ukraine LLC. Also, 24 MW of used wind turbines have been imported into the country since the beginning of the year.

In 2023, 238 MW of new WPP capacities were put into operation in Ukraine.

According to the Cabinet of Ministers order of November 29, 2024 No. 1195-r, the quota for "green" auctions for wind power plants for 2025 is 100 MW, then, up to and including 2029, 250-290 MW.