{"id":22784,"date":"2026-04-24T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/?p=22784"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:07:03","slug":"seau-held-an-open-meeting-of-the-legal-committee-on-law-no-4777-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/en\/seau-held-an-open-meeting-of-the-legal-committee-on-law-no-4777-ix\/","title":{"rendered":"SEAU Held an Open Meeting of the Legal Committee on Law No. 4777-IX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>The Solar Energy Association of Ukraine held an open meeting of its Legal Committee on the topic: \u201cLaw No. 4777-IX Is Already in Force: Overview of Key Changes for Market Participants.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event brought together representatives of businesses, developers, electricity producers, EPC companies, and other energy market stakeholders seeking to adapt their activities to the new legislative framework.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The session was led by <\/span><b>Ivan Balytskyi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Head of the SEAU Legal Committee and a lawyer, one of the leading experts in energy law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the presentation, the expert outlined the key changes that have already entered into force, as well as their practical impact on the market:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>\u201cGreen\u201d auctions:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the RES support model is changing with the introduction of a Feed-in-Premium mechanism;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Auction financial conditions:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> escrow accounts are introduced as an alternative to bank guarantees;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>PV + BESS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> defined as a priority area of state support (separate quotas and increased price cap\u2014up to \u20ac0.12\/kWh), alongside additional requirements for BESS (power \u2265 80% of PV capacity, storage duration \u2013 2 kWh\/kW);<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Daytime generation constraints:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the need to balance surplus generation through storage or curtailment during peak hours is introduced;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Night generation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> time-based restrictions on purchasing electricity under the \u201cgreen\u201d tariff are introduced;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Grid connection:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> flexible connection without mandatory grid reconstruction is allowed, subject to capacity limitations;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Temporarily occupied territories (TOT):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> settlement mechanisms for electricity generated by RES facilities located in temporarily occupied territories and supplied to the Unified Energy System of Ukraine have been regulated.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commenting on the significance of the changes, <\/span><b>Ivan Balytskyi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stated: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLaw No. 4777-IX opens new opportunities for energy market players, but at the same time requires rapid adaptation. The National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission (NEURC) has already established a working group and is expected to update key regulatory acts within the next six months. After that, the law will become fully operational. I encourage the expert community to join this process and submit proposals for the development of secondary legislation to ensure a favorable regulatory environment for the sector.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SEAU will continue to inform the market about the outcomes of cooperation with the regulator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recording of the meeting and the expert\u2019s presentation will be available upon request for SEAU members, as well as in the upcoming issue of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solar Digest<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solar Energy Association of Ukraine held an open meeting of its Legal Committee on the topic: \u201cLaw No. 4777-IX Is Already in Force: Overview of Key Changes for Market Participants.\u201d The event brought together representatives of businesses, developers, electricity producers, EPC companies, and other energy market stakeholders seeking to adapt their activities to the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"ast-button\" href=\"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/en\/seau-held-an-open-meeting-of-the-legal-committee-on-law-no-4777-ix\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEAU Held an Open Meeting of the Legal Committee on Law No. 4777-IX<\/span> \u0427\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0438 \u0434\u0430\u043b\u0456 \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":22785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22787,"href":"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784\/revisions\/22787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aseu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}