Volodymyr Popereshnyuk, co-owner of the NOVA group of companies (co-owner of Nova Poshta), called on the authorities to finally transfer the Ukrainian energy industry to a full-fledged market model. In his opinion, electricity should become a common commodity that can be freely produced, supplied and sold without administrative restrictions.
According to the businessman, for this it is necessary to remove the licensing, remove the marginal prices (price caps) and open the way to the privatization of energy assets. He believes that the current model is excessively dependent on government regulation and does not allow the market to adapt quickly enough to the challenges of war. A greater number of private producers, he said, would speed up the decentralization of generation and reduce business dependence on expensive self-supply of electricity.
