Europe's largest gas storage, and what it can do
Ukraine holds more underground gas storage capacity than any other country in Europe. That asset is strategic, commercial and consistently underused.
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
Ukraine holds more underground gas storage capacity than any other country in Europe. That asset is strategic, commercial and consistently underused.
Signed with hours to spare on 30 December: five years, firm booked capacity, European network rules, and the settlement of arbitration claims. The structure matters more…
Ukraine inherited some of the least efficient buildings in Europe. Fixing that is duller than building generation and worth considerably more.
For most of its independent history Ukraine had one electricity buyer, one set of administered prices, and no market. The 2019 reform replaced that with day-ahead…
For thirty years Ukraine was the largest gas corridor into Europe. That position produced revenue, leverage and vulnerability in roughly equal measure.
Most Ukrainian city households are heated by a network of pipes running under the street from a central plant. It is the largest piece of infrastructure…
Ukraine ended direct gas purchases from russia and replaced them with supply from Europe. The mechanism that made it possible is worth understanding in detail.
Route development through the 2010s did more for Ukrainian services exports and tourism than any policy. Then the airspace closed, and the cost of that closure…
Thirty-two years of basing rights were exchanged for roughly a hundred dollars per thousand cubic metres off the gas price. The problem is not the politics…
Supplies stopped on New Year's Day and resumed at nearly double the price. The dispute was settled in three days; the change it made to Ukrainian…
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