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From February 27 to March 2, 2023, within the framework of the Business Scout Fund (BSF) project “International Dialogues of Renewable Energy Associations for the Global Energy Transition”, the leaders of the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association (UWEA), Association of Solar Energy of Ukraine (ASEU), Bioenergy Association of Ukraine (BAU) and the Public Union Global 100% RE Ukraine, co-founded by the UWEA, the ASEU and the BAU, held a series of meetings with the German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energie e. V. (BEE), the German wind energy association Bundesverband WindEnergie e.V. (BWE), the solar association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft e.V. (BSW) and the biogas association Fachverband Biogas e.V. (FvB).
The main goal of this project is to establish cooperation between the Ukrainian and German renewable energy associations aimed at transferring knowledge internationally and mutually between RES associations, exchanging experiences on national energy transitions and the local deployment of RES technologies. During the meetings, representatives of the Ukrainian and German associations discussed the main challenges facing the renewable energy markets in Ukraine and Germany and preliminarily identified further joint actions.
It should be noted that the German government has been very supportive of the project. During meetings with RES Industry associations from Ukraine and Germany, representatives of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and Federal Foreign Office department on Foreign Policy on Energy and Decarbonisation, emphasized the German government’s readiness to facilitate Ukraine’s energy transition to new, exclusively green technologies.
“Memorandum of Cooperation between German and Ukrainian umbrella organizations - the German Renewable Energy Federation and Global 100% RE Ukraine, should be our next step. Cooperation between national renewable energy associations will be an impetus for accelerated deployment of green technologies in Ukraine and will contribute to the creation of a new, decentralized energy system of Ukraine based on renewable energy sources,” believes Andriy Konechenkov, Chairman of the UWEA Board.
Remarkably, all RES associations’ meetings took place on the territory of the UREF-Campus research center, located in the Schöneberg district of Berlin, also called “the place of the future". This is where more than 5,000 people work, research and study in more than 150 enterprises, institutions and start-ups in the areas of energy, mobility and sustainability. Since the project started in 2008, the approximately 5.5 hectare city district around the “Gasometer” (Gasholder), which has been meeting the Federal Government’s climate targets for 2045 since 2014, has evolved into a real-world laboratory for the shift to renewable energy and is one of a kind in Europe.
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