Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in Ukraine: Licensing, Ukrenergo Contracts, and Electricity Market Entry

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Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are rapidly emerging as a foundational pillar of modern energy infrastructure. Amid the expanding share of renewable energy sources, the critical need for grid balancing, and heightened business continuity standards, energy storage systems have evolved beyond basic backup power into sophisticated energy management tools and an independent market segment.

In Ukraine, commercial interest in BESS continues to surge among industrial enterprises, developers, power producers, and institutional investors. However, alongside technical integration, complex regulatory and legal questions arise:

Is an energy storage license mandatory for BESS?
Under what conditions must contracts be executed with NPC Ukrenergo?
Is integration into the MMS platform required?
How can a energy storage system be properly onboarded onto the wholesale electricity market?

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Publication date: 13/08/2026

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Name: Marina Losenko

Position: Associate

Education: National Aviation University

Knowledge of languages: Russian, Ukrainian

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Marina Losenko is a lawyer of the company, specializing in corporate law and intellectual property law.

Marina has extensive experience of registration and dissolution of enterprises, charities and non-governmental organizations, representative offices of foreign companies as well as formalization of changes to registration information of the entities.

For quite a long time she has been working in the field of licensing and obtained licenses for different types of business activities including sale of medicines (license for activities of drugstores); wholesale of pesticides and agrochemicals; activities with scrap; activities with hazardous wastes; operations with scrap of precious metals and gemstones; private security services; transportation; tour services; use of redio frequency resource; IPTV services, etc.

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