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“Ukraine – First Mover” Seminar 17 December 2014 Kyiv, Ukraine
Current statusand future trends of infrastructure projects in Ukraine. Promising opportunities for energy and agricultural sectors
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• Briefly about the firm
• Current status of infrastructure projects in Ukraine
• Future trends of infrastructure projects in Ukraine
• Opportunities for energy sector
• Opportunities for agricultural sector
CONTENT
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• Strong Danish and Scandinavian Focus
• Danish legal partner
• IFC expert on “green” tariff mapping in Ukraine, and legal expert of Ukrainian Bioenergy Association and Ukrainian Wind Energy Association, and Pig Farm Association etc.
• Recognized in infrastructure in IFLR 1000, Ukrainian Law Firms and many other rankings
• Practical experience of implementing infrastructure projects, including Danish clients, at all stages
ABOUT FIRM
Clients (1)
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Agriculture
Energy
IT
Aviation
Dan-Farm Ukraine
Clients (2)
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Financial institutions
Consumer goods
Industry
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• One of the largest land area in Europe, including arable lands, and huge construction potential
• Obsolete infrastructure in most of industrial sectors
• Needs for new construction and reconstruction of infrastructure, including one damaged in the Eastern Ukraine
• Despite the situation a number of projects on-going but most of projects are on hold and/or slowed down
• Still quite complicated construction and
land procedures, currency regulation restrictions
CURRENT STATUS
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• Simplification of construction and land procedures and relaxing undue restrictions for investments
• Foreign sources of financing will prevail (IFC commits EUR 5 billion till 2020, U.S. financial institutions up to USD 17 billion, IFC, IFU, EKF, NEFCO keep financing)
• Privatization and PPP re sea ports, heat and power facilities…
• Key priorities: energy, agricultural and municipal sectors
• Consulting opportunities for Danish companies
(EBRD, EU and other consultants tenders)
FUTURE TRENDS
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• Tender for investors to modernize gas transportation and storage system (EU or US companies may own up to 49%)
• Unconventional gas exploration/production, LNG terminal
• Unbundling in gas, power and heat sectors and reforms
• Liberalizing gas and electricity markets, decrease of subsidies and bringing prices of utilities services to market ones
• Transfer to stimulating tariffs in energy sector (RAB)
• Energy saving (gas substitution 30-50%) and ESCO
ENERGY SECTOR
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Current production from renewables (power capacity)
• electricity – 1419 MW (wind – 497 MW, solar – 819 MW, small hydro 77
MW, biomass (biogas) – 26 MW)
• heat – 1070 MW
Governmental National Plan for Renewables till 2020
Electricity production
• Small hydro – 430 MW
• Solar – 2420 MW
• Wind – 5900 MW
• Biomass (biogas) – 4220 MW
Heat production
• Solar – 200 MW
• Biomass (biogas) – 5000 MW
• Heating pumps – 600 MW
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
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Tax incentives
• exemption from import VAT and customs duties for energy efficient equipment
• decrease of land tax for RES power plants by 75%
• limits for rental payments for lands lease from state and municipal authorities
by 3% of appraisal value for RES power plants and simplified procedure for
receiving
• exemption from CIT of profit from simultaneous production of electricity and
heat and/or heat from biofuels till 2020
• exemption from 80% CIT for profit from sales of energy efficient equipment
• exemption from 50% CIT for profit from approved energy efficient projects
Stimulating heat tariff for renewables
• for municipal/state customers – average price for heat from natural gas
• if for commercial users – 90% of average price for heat from natural gas or up
to 21% rate of return
• if for population – average price for heat from natural gas in
a settlement
• upcoming compensation of substitution of natural gas in
state/municipal sectors (approximately ½ of substituted gas price)
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
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Green Tariff (GT) mechanism
GT rates (if commissioned till 2020)
• biomass (biogas) – 11,1 eurocents per kW/h (expected changes: biomass -
14,4 eurocents per kW/h and biogas – 16,2 eurocents per kW/h)
• wind (if turbines more than 2 MW) – 10,2 eurocents per kW/h
• solar (depending on power capacity and other factors) – 30,5-33,2 eurocents
per kW/h (expected changes: to be lessened to apr. 20-25 eurocents per kW/h)
• small hydro (depending on power capacity and other factors – 10,5-17,4
eurocents per kW/h
Issues
• local content requirements (expected to be abolished)
• only 100% waste biomass is eligible to GT (expected to be abolished)
• approval GT after commissioning
• untimely adjustment of currency exchange fluctuation (planned
to be corrected in the beginning of the next year)
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
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• In 2014 one of the best harvests in the Ukrainian history (over 63 mln tons of grain) despite everything
• No. 1 producer/exporter of sunflower and sunflower oil
• In top 10 of producers/exporters of maize, barley and wheat
• Increasing production and export of dairy products, pig meat, eggs and chicken
• 13 IPOs of Ukrainian agro businesses in
Europe
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
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• Inventory of lands, simplifications of land and construction procedures, land lease market vs. land market
• Simplified system of taxation till 2018 (based on value of lands rented)
• Adoption of EU standards and requirements
• Liberalization of export
• Construction of port terminals, farms and food
processing facilities
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
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CONTACTS
Maksym Sysoiev, LL.M. Counsel, Attorney-at-Law [email protected] MARCHENKO DANEVYCH www.marchenkodanevych.com Office 49 | 4-B, Ivana Franka Street | Kyiv 01054 | Ukraine Tel./Fax (Office): +380 44 220 0711
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