# Ministry of Energy (Ukraine)

The Ministry of Energy is responsible for energy in Ukraine.
The government ministry was originally formed in the 1970s as the Ministry of Energy and Electrification.

## Functions

* state governing of the Fuel-Energy Complex
* ensuring the realization of the state policies in the Fuel-Energy Complex
* ensuring energy security of the State
* participation in the formation, regulation, and improvement of the fuel-energy resource market
* developing proposals to improve economic incentives in stimulation of the Fuel-Energy Complex development

### Vectors of specialization

* Power generation
* Nuclear power
* Oil and Gas industry
* Coal mining

## Fuel energy complex associations
### Power generation

* National Nuclear Power-generating Company Energoatom
** Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant
** Rivne Nuclear Power Plant
** South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant
** Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
** Donuzlav WES (Wind Power Plant)
** other supporting companies
* Sevastopol Institute of Nuclear Power an Industry
* State Research Company "Tsyrkoniy"
* Chornobyl Center on issues of Nuclear Security, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology
* Industrial Reserve-Investment Fund in Development of Energy
* Ukrenerhokomplekt
* Ukrainian Nuclear Association
* Ukrinterenergo
* State Enterprise National Power Company Ukrenerho
** Derzhenerhonahlyad (State Energy Supervision)
** Derzhinspektsia (State Inspection)
* Centrenergo
* Ukrhydroenergo (100%)
* Dniester Hydro-accumulating Power Station (87.4%)
* others

### Oil/gas and oil refinery industries

* National Joint-Stock Company Naftogaz Ukrainy
** Subsidiary Company Ukrgasproduction
** Open Joint-Stock Company Ukrnafta (50% + 1)
** Subsidiary Joint-Stock Company Chornomornaftogaz
** Overseas branches
** other enterprises

### Small share participants

* Donbasenergo (25.0%)
* DTEK Dniproenergo (25.0%)

### Former members

* State Special Enterprise Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was created on July 11, 2001 on base of the former Energoatom's company of the same name. The company was basically recommissioned under a special jurisdiction for the further decommissioning of its nuclear power station. On July 15, 2005 the enterprise was transferred from under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy to the Ministry of Emergencies.
* National Joint-Stock Company Energy Company of Ukraine

## History

Previous names:
* 1982–1997 Ministry of Energy and Electrification
* 1997–1999 Ministry of Energy
* 1999–2010 Ministry of Fuel and Energy
* 2010–present Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining
The ministry also absorbed a separate Ministry of Coal Mining which existed since 1954 until 1999 and was revived in 2005-2010.
The Ministry was (as it turned out) temporally merged the ministry with the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources by Honcharuk Government (on 29 August 2019). But the succeeding Shmyhal Government re-created the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (on 27 May 2020).

## List of ministers
### Energy and electrification

| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | Term of office |
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Start | End |
| | Oleksiy Makukhin | 27 November 1971 | 11 May 1982 |
| | Vitaliy Skliarov | 11 May 1982 | 3 January 1993 |
| | Anatoliy Hrytsenko | 3 January 1993 | 17 August 1993 |
| | Vilen Semeniuk | 17 August 1993 | 3 July 1995 |
| | Oleksiy Sheberstov | 3 July 1995 | 13 June 1996 |
| | (acting) | 13 June 1996 | 1 July 1996 |
| | Yuriy Bochkaryov | 1 July 1996 | 6 May 1997 |
| In 1997 it was replaced with Ministry of Energy ||||

### Energy

| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | Term of office |
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Start | End |
| In 1997 it was established in place of Ministry of Energy and Electrification ||||
| Pavlo Lazarenko | Yuriy Bochkaryov | 1997 | 1997 |
| Valeriy Pustovoitenko | Oleksiy Sheberstov | 1997 | 1999 |
| Valeriy Pustovoitenko | Ivan Plachkov | 1999 | 1999 |

### Fuel and energy

| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | Term of office |
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Start | End |
| In 1999 it was established in place of Ministry of Energy ||||
| Viktor Yushchenko | Serhiy Tulub | 1999 | 2000 |
| Viktor Yushchenko | Serhiy Yermilov | 2000 | 2001 |
| Viktor Yushchenko | Stanislav Stashevshkyi | 2001 | 2001 |
| Anatoliy Kinakh | Vitaliy Haiduk | 2001 | 2002 |
| Viktor Yanukovych | Serhiy Yermilov | 2002 | 2004 |
| Viktor Yanukovych | Serhiy Tulub | 2004 | 2005 |
| Yuriy Yekhanurov | Ivan Plachkov | September 2005 | January 2006 |
| Viktor Yanukovych | Yuriy Boiko | January 2006 (acting until August) | December 2007 |
| Yulia Tymoshenko | Yuriy Prodan | December 2007 | March 2010 |
| Mykola Azarov | Yuriy Boiko | March 2010 | December 2010 |
| In 2010 Ministry of Fuel and Energy was liquidated and merged ||||

### Coal mining

Ministry of Coal Mining of Ukraine existed at least since 1954.
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | Term of office |
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Start | End |
| no information | no information | 1987 | 1994 |
| Vitaliy Masol | Viktor Poltavets | 1994 | 1995 |
| Yevhen Marchuk | Serhiy Polyakov | 1995 | 1996 |
| Pavlo Lazarenko | Yuriy Rusantsov | 1996 | 1997 |
| Valeriy Pustovoitenko | Stanislav Yanko | 1997 | 1998 |
| Valeriy Pustovoitenko | Serhiy Tulub | 1998 | 1999 |
| no information | no information | 1999 | 2005 |
| Yuriy Yekhanurov | Viktor Topolov | 2005 | 2006 |
| Yuriy Yekhanurov | Serhiy Tulub | 2006 | 2007 |
| Yulia Tymoshenko | Viktor Poltavets | 2007 | 2010 |
| Mykola Azarov | Yuriy Yashchenko | 2010 | 2010 |
| In 2010 Ministry of Coal Mining was liquidated and merged ||||

### Energy and coal mining

| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | Term of office |
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Start | End |
| In 2010 Ministry of Fuel and Energy merged with Ministry of Coal Mining ||||
| Mykola Azarov | Yuriy Boiko | December 2010 | 24 December 2012 |
| Mykola Azarov | Eduard Stavytsky | 24 December 2012 | 27 February 2014 |
| Arseniy Yatsenyuk | Yuriy Prodan | 27 February 2014 | 2 December 2014 |
| Arseniy Yatsenyuk | Volodymyr Demchyshyn | 2 December 2014 | 14 April 2016 |
| Volodymyr Groysman | Ihor Nasalyk | 14 April 2016 | 29 August 2019 |
| In 2020 Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining was liquidated and merged ||||

### Energy and environmental protection

| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | Term of office |
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Start | End |
| In 2019 ministry of Energy and Coal Mining merged with Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources ||||
| Oleksiy Honcharuk | Oleksiy Orzhel | 29 August 2019 | 4 March 2020 |
| Denys Shmyhal | Vitaliy Shubin (acting minister) | 11 March 2020 | 16 April 2020 |
| Denys Shmyhal | Olha Buslavets (acting minister) | 16 April 2020 | 27 May 2020 |

### Energy

| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | Term of office |
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Start | End |
| In 2020 Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources split into a Ministry of Energy and a separate ministry for Environmental Protection ||||
| Denys Shmyhal | Olha Buslavets (acting minister) | 27 May 2020 | 20 November 2020 |
| Denys Shmyhal | Yuriy Boyko (acting minister) | 20 November 2020 | 21 December 2020 |
| Denys Shmyhal | Yuriy Vitrenko (acting minister) | 21 December 2020 | 29 April 2021 |
| Denys Shmyhal | Herman Halushchenko | 29 April 2021 | Incumbent |