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Kyiv’s energy resilience plan has been sent back for further revision until April

Kyiv’s energy resilience plan has been sent back for further revision until April

Katerina Melnychenko Deputy Editor-in-Chief

20 March 2026, 19:00

Kyiv’s energy resilience plan has been sent back for further revision until April — Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko

The government has not approved Kyiv’s energy sustainability plan and has sent it back to its drafters for further revision. The Cabinet of Ministers stated that the development of distributed heat supply should be the document’s key priority, and has instructed that the plan be finalised by early April 2026.

Kyiv has submitted an energy resilience plan to the government, but the document has not been approved. The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to send it back for further revision, whilst the plans of other regions have already been approved by the National Security and Defence Council.

According to Yulia Svyrydenko, the main priority for the capital’s plan should be the development of distributed heat supply. It is this part of the document, as the Prime Minister stated, that requires further work. The developers have been instructed to complete this work by early April 2026.

The submitted plan provides for the protection of 57 critical infrastructure facilities, as well as the installation of over 200 MW of additional generation capacity by the end of the year to power heating and water supply, wastewater treatment and other systems.

The total budget for Kyiv’s energy resilience plan stands at 61.6 billion hryvnias. Of this amount, 10.6 billion hryvnias are to be provided from the city’s own funds, with a further 51 billion hryvnias expected from the government.

As a reminder, on 3 March, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy chaired a meeting of the National Security and Defence Council, at which resilience plans were approved for all regions and regional centres, except Kyiv. The capital was then given an extra week to update and finalise its plan for the upcoming heating season.

Separately, in the political aspect of this story, Petro Poroshenko, leader of the European Solidarity faction, stated that on 9 March, pro-government deputies disrupted a meeting of the Kyiv City Council at which the capital’s energy resilience plan was due to be approved.

However, on 10 March, the Kyiv City Council did indeed adopt the energy resilience plan for the upcoming heating season. The decision was passed by 92 councillors.

As a reminder, Svyrydenko met with Macron in Paris: they discussed energy and Ukraine’s accession to the EU

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