KIEV, Sept. 26 – The State Railway Administration (Ukrzaliznytsia) has submitted a draft plan for capital investment in 2013 to the Cabinet of Ministers in which the administration proposes to spend UAH 8.66 billion from the national and local budgets to buy rolling stock for passenger transportation.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Sept. 26 – Scorzonera company (Polianytsia of Yaremche town council), which owns the Bukovel ski complex, plans to raise $100 million to build a runway at the Ivano-Frankivsk airport, the property of which the company has taken under concession.

KIEV, Sept. 26 - A draft agreement to settle problems in trade relations between Ukraine and Russia that arose after the latter introduced a vehicle recycling tax might be discussed at the summit of CIS leaders that will be held in Yalta on September 28, Russian Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach said in a video conference call between Moscow and Kiev.

KIEV, Sept. 26 - Ukraine has decided on sites for building three coal-to-gas conversion plants and their construction is expected to begin early next year, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko said Wednesday.

LONDON, Sept. 26 – The International Grains Council (IGC) has reported in its September report that following upward revisions for Russia, Ukraine and Australia, world wheat production in 2011/12 is forecast 2 million tons higher than last month, at a near record 679 million, which is 28 million higher than last year production (651 million).

BRUSSELS, Sept. 26 – The 18th round of talks on the creation of a free trade area between Ukraine and the EU, which began in Brussels on September 19, will last until mid-October, said Valeriy Piatnytsky, the head of the Ukrainian delegation.

KIEV, Sept. 26 – Ukraine hopes to sign an agreement on a free trade area between the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States in October, Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Trade Andriy Kliuyev said.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – The National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has approved feed-in tariffs for solar power to be generated by Crimean Solar 1 Ltd. and Crimean Solar 2 Ltd. (both in Crimea's Simferopol district).

KIEV, Sept. 23 - Ukraine's state nuclear enterprise EnergoAtom and Russia's United Heavy Machinery (OMZ) have signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of nuclear power during the course of the international forum Fuel and Energy Complex of Ukraine: The Present and Future on Thursday, an Interfax correspondent reports.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – The government has proposed an excise duty on gasoline with a sulfur content of 0.013 gram per liter (corresponds to the Euro-2 and Euro-3 standards) and less (Euro-4 and Euro-5) be increased by 37.9%, from EUR132 per ton to EUR182 per ton.