Olha Buslavets
Olha Anatoliyivna Buslavets, born on 5 March 1975 in Makiivka, is a Ukrainian power engineer and civil servant. She studied at Donetsk State Technical University (graduating in 1997) and earned the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences, defending her dissertation in 2018 at Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute. She is a co-author of many papers on electricity transmission and distribution.
From 16 April 2020 to 20 November 2020 she served as Acting Minister of Energy, and after a government reshuffle on 27 May 2020 she became Minister of Energy under President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. In this role, she helped stabilize the electricity market, improve the finances of state energy companies, and ensure consumers could buy electricity at a fair price. She resolved the renewable energy crisis by signing a memorandum with investors, reducing the green tariff, resuming payments for renewable energy, and improving green auctions.
She led efforts to upgrade the energy system, including a tender to build additional capacity to keep the grid safe and ready for synchronization with ENTSO-E. She helped end miners’ strikes, ensured domestic coal sales, repaid wage arrears, and developed the Coal Reform Concept. She worked on laws to boost energy efficiency and decarbonization and moved forward oil and gas exploration projects at eight sites with investors and Cabinet approval.
Internationally, she helped revive Ukraine’s energy diplomacy, including a partnership with Germany and expanded cooperation with Finland, the EU, the UK, the United States, Canada, Korea, and China. Ukraine also launched the UNIDO Energy Efficiency program through a loan guarantee fund. In her spare time, she enjoys cycling and travel.
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