Report: Ukraine pushes EU energy reforms and interconnections forward amid wartime challenges

The Energy Community Secretariat’s Q2 2025 Ukraine Energy Market Observatory Report confirms that the country is pressing ahead with EU-aligned reforms and expanding cross-border electricity and gas trade despite martial law. A new draft law to transpose the Electricity Integration Package (EIP), adopted in the first reading, prepares Ukraine for accelerated integration with the EU’s electricity market ahead of accession. Simultaneously, the draft law on the transposition of the TEN-E Regulation is now before Parliament, a step that could stimulate priority cross-border infrastructure projects and cement Ukraine’s role in Europe’s long-term energy security. 

“With winter approaching and wartime pressures mounting, Ukraine’s integration with the EU energy markets is critical on three fronts: safeguarding supply through the cold season, boosting market confidence, and advancing Europe’s shared decarbonised future,” the Energy Community Secretariat says in a press release, presenting the report.

The report’s key takeaways are: 

• Increasing legislative alignment with EU rules is paving the way for the regulatory certainty needed to attract capital to energy markets, even amid war.  
• Cross-border electricity and gas trade with the EU is expanding, laying the groundwork for deeper market integration and renewable growth.
• Alignment with the EU’s TEN-E Regulation is advancing, an important step for accelerating cross-border projects that underpin long-term energy security. 
• Regulatory stability is at risk as NEURC operates below capacity.

The Energy Community is an international organisation consisting of the European Union and a number of non-EU countries. It aims to extend the EU internal energy market to wider Southeast Europe, including Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, and support the region’s path towards EU membership through full implementation of EU law. 

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