| Agency Name: | Ministry of Energy |
| Nativename: | Міністерство енергетики України |
| Formed: | 1971 |
| Jurisdiction: | Government of Ukraine |
| Headquarters: | 30, Khreshchatyk st., Kyiv[1] |
| Chief1 Name: | Herman Halushchenko[2] |
| Chief1 Position: | Minister of Energy |
| Child1 Agency: | Naftogaz Ukrainy |
| Child2 Agency: | Energy Atom |
| Child3 Agency: | UkrEnergy |
| Child4 Agency: | UkrIntEnergy |
| Website: | Official website |
The Ministry of Energy is responsible for energy in Ukraine.
The government ministry was originally formed in the 1970s as the Ministry of Energy and Electrification.
Previous names:
The ministry also absorbed a separate Ministry of Coal Mining which existed since 1954 until 1999 and was revived in 2005-2010.
The Ministry was (as it turned out) temporally merged the ministry with the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources by Honcharuk Government (on 29 August 2019).[4] But the succeeding Shmyhal Government re-created the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (on 27 May 2020).[5]
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| Oleksiy Makukhin | 27 November 1971 | 11 May 1982 | |
| Vitaliy Skliarov | 11 May 1982 | 3 January 1993 | |
| Anatoliy Hrytsenko | 3 January 1993 | 17 August 1993 | |
| Vilen Semeniuk | 17 August 1993 | 3 July 1995 | |
| Oleksiy Sheberstov | 3 July 1995 | 13 June 1996 | |
| (acting) | 13 June 1996 | 1 July 1996 | |
| Yuriy Bochkaryov | 1 July 1996 | 6 May 1997 | |
| align=center colspan=4 | In 1997 it was replaced with Ministry of Energy | ||
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| align=center colspan=4 | In 1997 it was established in place of Ministry of Energy and Electrification | ||
| Pavlo Lazarenko | Yuriy Bochkaryov | 1997 | 1997 |
| Valeriy Pustovoitenko | Oleksiy Sheberstov | 1997 | 1999 |
| Ivan Plachkov[6] | 1999 | 1999 | |
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| align=center colspan=4 | In 1999 it was established in place of Ministry of Energy | ||
| Viktor Yushchenko | Serhiy Tulub | 1999 | 2000 |
| Serhiy Yermilov | 2000 | 2001 | |
| Stanislav Stashevshkyi | 2001 | 2001 | |
| Anatoliy Kinakh | Vitaliy Haiduk | 2001 | 2002 |
| Viktor Yanukovych | Serhiy Yermilov | 2002 | 2004 |
| Serhiy Tulub | 2004 | 2005 | |
| Yuriy Yekhanurov | Ivan Plachkov | September 2005 | January 2006 |
| Viktor Yanukovych | Yuriy Boiko | January 2006 (acting until August) | December 2007 |
| Yulia Tymoshenko | Yuriy Prodan | December 2007 | March 2010 |
| Mykola Azarov | Yuriy Boiko | March 2010 | December 2010 |
| align=center colspan=4 | In 2010 Ministry of Fuel and Energy was liquidated and merged | ||
Ministry of Coal Mining of Ukraine existed at least since 1954.
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| align=center colspan=2 | no information | 1987 | 1994 |
| Vitaliy Masol | Viktor Poltavets | 1994 | 1995 |
| Yevhen Marchuk | Serhiy Polyakov | 1995 | 1996 |
| Pavlo Lazarenko | Yuriy Rusantsov | 1996 | 1997 |
| Valeriy Pustovoitenko | Stanislav Yanko | 1997 | 1998 |
| Serhiy Tulub | 1998 | 1999 | |
| align=center colspan=2 | no information | 1999 | 2005 |
| Yuriy Yekhanurov | Viktor Topolov | 2005 | 2006 |
| Serhiy Tulub | 2006 | 2007 | |
| Yulia Tymoshenko | Viktor Poltavets | 2007 | 2010 |
| Mykola Azarov | Yuriy Yashchenko | 2010 | 2010 |
| align=center colspan=4 | In 2010 Ministry of Coal Mining was liquidated and merged | ||
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| align=center colspan=4 | In 2010 Ministry of Fuel and Energy merged with Ministry of Coal Mining | ||
| Mykola Azarov | Yuriy Boiko | December 2010 | 24 December 2012 |
| Eduard Stavytsky[7] | 24 December 2012 | 27 February 2014 | |
| Arseniy Yatsenyuk | Yuriy Prodan[8] | 27 February 2014 | 2 December 2014[9] |
| Volodymyr Demchyshyn | 2 December 2014 | 14 April 2016[10] | |
| Volodymyr Groysman | Ihor Nasalyk | 14 April 2016 | 29 August 2019 |
| align=center colspan=4 | In 2020 Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining was liquidated and merged | ||
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| align=center colspan=4 | In 2019 ministry of Energy and Coal Mining merged with Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | ||
| Oleksiy Honcharuk | Oleksiy Orzhel | 29 August 2019[11] | 4 March 2020[12] |
| Denys Shmyhal | Vitaliy Shubin (acting minister) | 11 March 2020 | 16 April 2020 |
| Olha Buslavets (acting minister)[13] | 16 April 2020 | 27 May 2020 | |
| Prime Minister(s) | Name | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||
| align=center colspan=4 | In 2020 Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources split into a Ministry of Energy and a separate ministry for Environmental Protection | ||
| Denys Shmyhal | Olha Buslavets (acting minister) | 27 May 2020 | 20 November 2020 |
| Yuriy Boyko (acting minister) | 20 November 2020[14] | 21 December 2020 | |
| Yuriy Vitrenko (acting minister) | 21 December 2020[15] | 29 April 2021 | |
| Herman Halushchenko | 29 April 2021 | Incumbent | |