SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PROGRESS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Ukraine has been considered as a country that has at the same time almost blank market for renewable energy and a high-level research potential. The example of Ukraine shows two problems typical for countries with a weak economy: the existence of a large gap between the results of scientific research and the possibility of their implementation; the availability of advanced results in the directions that, due to the need for significant investments, are very difficult to be implemented practically (materials science for solar power, thermoelectricity, new types of batteries, etc.) and almost no research in the industries that are intensively developing and are potentially economically profitable (biofuels, bioenergy from agricultural waste, wind energy). Such data can help foreign companies to enter the Ukrainian market or facilitate the commercialization of research results of Ukrainian scientists.