KYIV, Oct 16 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is working on the launch of the bioenergy program in Ukraine in 2019, under which it is planned to finance around 10 or 15 projects for the amount of EUR 70-80 million, EBRD Associate Director for Energy Efficiency and Climate Change in Ukraine, Poland and Caucasus Sergiy Maslichenko has said at the 10th Sustainable Energy Forum (SEF) 2018.

"Understanding that solar and wind energy are developing normally, we focused primarily on bioenergy. And here we are talking not only about bioenergy plants, but about the entire chain - from the field to the end user. Ukraine, as an agrarian country, has large production residues, but now they remain in the fields, and therefore we are working on such a project," he said.