The Ukrainian Bar Association invites you to attend the IV Energy Law Conference. This year's event promises to be particularly interesting and rich with current topics and insights from leading industry experts.

Date and Time: July 5, 2024 (Friday), 10:00-18:00.

Location: National Hotel, 5 Lipska Street, Kyiv / Online (Zoom).

The conference serves as a unique platform for meeting high-level professionals, engaging in fruitful discussions with industry experts, expanding business networks, and making important connections.

Among the participants and speakers, leading industry experts, representatives of regulatory bodies and specialized government agencies, as well as experts and chief specialists in the energy sector, are expected to participate.

PROGRAM

09:30-10:00 Registration of participants. Welcome coffee

10:00-10:10 Opening remarks

Mykola Stetsenko, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Managing Partner at AVELLUM 

Ivan Bondarchuk, Chairman of the UBA Committee on Energy, Oil and Gas

10:10 - 11:40 Session 1. Ukraine's Energy Strategy and Eurointegration

Moderator:

Ivan Bondarchuk, Partner at LCF Law Group, Head of Energy and Projects Practice, Chairman of the UBA Committee on Energy, Oil and Gas

Focus:

• Ways to ensure energy independence, increase production, decentralize energy capacities, and develop renewable energy sources
• Impact of negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU on the energy sector: progress made in the past year towards the EU, and challenges to overcome
• Action plan for implementing Ukraine's Energy Strategy until 2050, preparation and approval of the National Plan
• Expectations from the National Energy and Climate Plan of Ukraine 2025-2030

Experts:

Andarak Roman, Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine for Digital Development, Digital Transformation, and Digitalization

Andriy Gerus, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Energy, Housing and Utilities

Yuriy Kamelchuk, Member of Parliament of Ukraine

Oleksiy Orzhel, Head of the Energy Sector, Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO), Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine (2019-2020)

Olga Babiy, Мember of the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission (NEURC)

11:30 - 11:40 Q&A Session

11:40 - 12:00 Interview with a representative of the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities (NCSREPU)

Moderator:

Olga Savchenko, Partner at Altelaw

Respondent:

Olga Babiy, Мember of the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission (NEURC)

Note! The Ukrainian Bar Association conducts preliminary collection of questions for the interview with the representative of NCSREPU

You can submit your questions in this FORM.

12:00 - 12:40 Coffee break

12:40 - 14:10 Session 2. Electricity Market

Moderator:

Vladyslav Sokolovskyi, Managing Partner at Sokolovskyi and Partners, Chairman of the Board of the Solar Energy Association of Ukraine 

Focus:

• EBRD projects in the electricity sector
• Launch of REMIT
• Captive and market integration
• Court practice on disputes over market settlements
• Prospects for wind power development in a free electricity market
• Ways to ensure sustainable development of renewable energy and USAID ESP initiatives in this area

Experts:

Yuriy Boyko, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine

Andriy Konechenkov, Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association (UWEA)

Oleksandr Martyniuk, Chief Renewable Energy Expert, USAID Energy Security Project (ESP) 

Daniil Petrenko, Deputy General Director for Development of Market Operator JSC

Оleksii Zakharchuk, Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at DTEK

Maksym Yurkov, Director of Legal Affairs at Ukrenergo NEC

Olga Yeriomina, Associate Director, Senior Banker in the Energy Department of the EBRD (online)

14:00 - 14:10 Q&A Session

14:10 - 14:50 Coffee break

14:50 - 16:20 Session 3. Gas Market and Industry Extraction Issues

Сo-Moderators:

Olga Terefenko, Partner at GRAVITY  

Serhii Datsiv, Senior Associate in the Energy Practice at INTEGRITES

Focus:

• Renewable gases (biomethane, hydrogen)
• Prospects of biomethane production in Ukraine
• Oil/gas extraction: results, obstacles, reforms, sanctions
• IPVG Standard 2023
• Practice of concluding PEC and PSA agreements
• Implementation of production sharing agreements

Experts:

Yuliia Borzhemska, Regulatory Policy Manager at DTEK Naftogaz (online)

Georgii Geletukha, Chairman of the Board of the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine (UABIO)

Denys Kudin, Executive Vice President for corporate strategy and development at PJSC "Ukrnafta"

Andrii Moskalyk, Partner at Baker McKenzie Ukraine B.V.

Roman Nitsovych, Director of research at DiXi Group

Artem Petrenko, Executive Director of the Association of Gas Producers of Ukraine

16:10 - 16:20 Q&A Session

16:20 - 18:00 Networking. Reception

Grateful for the support in organizing the event:

Partners:

Altelaw

DTEK  

LCF Law Group

Sokolovskyi and Partners

Session Partner:

GRAVITY

Socially responsible Partner:

INTEGRITES

Participation in the event requires COMPULSORY REGISTRATION.

Participation in the event is only confirmed after the payment of the registration fee.

Organizers reserve the right to close registration when the maximum number of participants is reached.

For additional information about the event, participation as a speaker, and partnership opportunities, please contact the organizers at tel .: +38 (044) 492-88-48, +38 (063) 792-30-99 (calls via WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber) or email: tosaulenko@uba.ua. Contact person - Tetiana Osaulenko.