The Ukrainian Energy Company DTEK seeks to increase American LNG supplies to Europe to guarantee the security of the supply to its country. Poland, which has extended significantly and continues to expand its gas infrastructure, could become an important gas center for kyiv, as reported by the Polish media .
Last year, the Ukrainian DTEK signed an agreement with the Polish company Columbus Energy to transfer 100% of its participation in the large -scale energy storage project with a capacity of 133 MW and a capacity of 532 MWh to a Ukrainian company.
“The association is the basis of our energy security and Ukraine has few closer partners in this area than Poland,” said Maksym Tombko, president of DTEK, on the X platform. In this way he summed up the meeting in the Polish SEJM with representatives of the Ministry of Climate and Environment on energy cooperation, including the GNL projects implemented with US companies in US companies. center.
Tombko stressed that DTEK is looking for opportunities to increase American LNG to Europe and Ukraine. And Poland occupies a key position in this project due to its location and its good liquefied gas transport infrastructure.
In the medium term, Poland will be able to build an energy bridge with Ukraine, necessary for the transport of LNG. “On the Polish side there are adequate gas ports and in our country there are energy storage facilities,” said Pavlo Kukhta, former Minister of Economic Development, Commerce and Agriculture of Ukraine, in an interview with the Polish Media.
The Ukrainian politician added that conversations are currently being held between US companies in the LNG sector and the president of DTEK about the supply of LNG to Ukraine. He also expressed his hope that at the end of May an agreement on US supplies will be signed, and stressed that there will be many possibilities for cooperation with Poland.