The electricity and building maintenance bills of the Kyiv HOA at 12 Mitropolita Sheptytskoho Street have been reduced by UAH 115,000. The association of co-owners managed to achieve such savings thanks to two steps: installation on the building solar power plant and obtaining the status of “active consumer”.
It has been in operation in Ukraine for three years and allows homeowners’ associations to generate and sell electricity without a license.
It looks appealing, but in practice, only a few HOAs have been able to use the mechanism. Dmytro Kruhlikov spoke with three Kyiv pioneers. Read the article to find out how HOAs solved problems that arose on the way to obtaining “active consumer” status, how much it cost them, and what they gained.
