Partnership & Cooperation

At ELQ Investments, institutional collaboration is the cornerstone of building a resilient and future-ready energy sector in Ukraine

Institutional Partnerships

At ELQ Investments, institutional collaboration is the cornerstone of building a resilient and future-ready energy sector in Ukraine. Our platform-level corporate framework is engineered to work hand in hand with development banks, international donor-backed funds, and multinational financial institutions to drive systemic reconstruction. Backed by a high-tier international advisory ecosystem—including financial modeling by BDO, legal structuring by Asters and Brodies LLP, and strategic positioning via the Ukraine Recovery Fund—we ensure every capital allocation delivers maximum operational efficiency and measurable impact.

We operate under strict compliance with European Union regulatory standards, including AIFMD, MiFID II, SFDR, and full alignment with the EU Taxonomy. This ensures institutional-grade transparency, rigorous capital discipline, and full accountability at every stage of executing our 1,126 MW ecosystem.

Our corporate governance model provides institutional partners with absolute protection and oversight. Operating through a centralized 5-member board—comprising balanced representation with 2 investor seats, 2 ELQ seats, and an independent member—all major operations are bound by a strict framework of reserved matters, including capital budgets, debt financing, and tier-one EPC contracts. Through these structured, bankable frameworks, ELQ Investments transitions Ukraine’s energy transition from high-risk single assets into a diversified, resilient, and long-term European-integrated infrastructure investment platform.

Private Engagement

ELQ Investments offers the opportunity to take part in Ukraine’s energy reconstruction through direct collaboration within a structured portfolio of projects. By entering at the corporate holding level rather than via single-asset exposure, private partners gain diversified access to large-scale initiatives that combine immediate recovery with the long-term transformation of the energy sector.

Private partners can engage through strategic partnerships or participation in dedicated thematic programs, contributing expertise, resources, and innovation to accelerate Ukraine’s sustainable energy transition. Our execution framework leverages a deep, localized operational presence via ELQ Ukraine, alongside top-tier technical and EPC execution partners including UTEM, KNESS, and SPP Development Ukraine, ensuring highly professional asset mobilization and local stakeholder coordination.

To ensure operational stability and long-term financial reliability, all projects are secured by comprehensive risk-mitigation mechanisms, including Export Credit Agency (ECA) guarantees, war-risk insurance, and institutional support frameworks. Combined with structured protection layers such as EUR-linked revenue scenarios and milestone-based project execution, these safeguards provide confidence that every partnership is protected against geopolitical and merchant risks while remaining fully aligned with European bankability standards. Through private engagement, ELQ Investments creates commercial pathways for meaningful collaboration that deliver tangible results for Ukraine, Europe, and global energy security.

Ukraine Energy, Sub-Fund of Ukraine Recovery Fund

The Ukraine Energy Sub-Fund, established under the framework of ELQ Investments, is a dedicated structure designed to mobilize international collaboration and accelerate the recovery of Ukraine’s energy system. The sub-fund operates within a regulated SICAV framework, fully aligned with European Union directives and under the oversight of the Czech National Bank (CNB).

This specialized investment structure acts as the financial vehicle for our broader platform, providing international investors, family offices, and institutional partners with a highly regulated, secure, and transparent route to deploy capital into Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure. By combining the strict regulatory oversight of the CNB with our 14 Ready-to-Build (RTB) project pipeline, the sub-fund mitigates traditional market entry barriers and ensures that all allocated funds are managed under rigorous European asset management standards.

Through this institutional architecture, the Ukraine Energy Sub-Fund bridge the gap between global capital and immediate, on-the-ground reconstruction needs—driving the deployment of over 1.1 GW of diversified renewable and hybrid energy capacities.

Natural Gas Generation & Exploration

Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation from natural gas delivers a reliable, dual-commodity supply of electricity and heat directly to local communities, industrial clusters, and critical infrastructure. By utilizing high-efficiency cogeneration assets, this approach ensures operational continuity where constant, weather-independent thermal and electrical loads are strictly required.
Domestic gas extraction and utilization projects are aimed at systematically reinforcing Ukraine’s energy sovereignty and reducing macroeconomic import dependency. By developing local fuel resources, the platform directly mitigates geopolitical supply risks and strengthens the country's internal economic resilience.
These assets serve as critical transitional solutions, securing immediate system stability, grid balancing, and baseload security while broader utility-scale renewable capacities and energy storage systems scale up across the ecosystem.

Renewable Energy Generation

Large-scale solar and wind projects deliver high-capacity, clean, and sustainable power directly to the national grid. Backed by our 528.4 MW Ready-to-Build (RTB) base-case portfolio, these capital-efficient assets—including major anchor developments like the 117.6 MW Zhytomyr Wind Power Plant and the 50 MW Bushtyno Solar Power Plant—provide rapid, predictable generation and scalable cash-flow visibility.
Advanced bioenergy solutions, including industrial-scale biomethane plants (such as the Agro-1 and Agro-2 facilities), leverage advanced anaerobic digestion to provide highly dispatchable, ESG-compliant revenue streams. These projects support the deep diversification of the energy supply, open highly lucrative European export markets, and drive local economic development by integrating seamlessly with Ukraine's robust agricultural sector.
On-grid and off-grid renewable systems are structurally engineered to strengthen regional energy independence and systemic resilience. By transitioning away from vulnerable, centralized infrastructure, these distributed energy assets secure critical supply continuity for local communities and industries, providing an adaptable backbone for long-term energy autonomy.

SMR Systems (Small Modular Reactors)

Feasibility and development studies are actively conducted for advanced nuclear technologies, specifically Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), tailored directly to Ukraine’s long-term energy architecture. Through our strategic project, ELQ Nuclear ONE™, the platform is mapping out the technical and economic prerequisites to introduce next-generation reactors into the national grid. Supported by an expert engineering and technology network—including partnerships with Witkowitz and Czechatom—these studies ensure that future development is backed by deep industrial capacity and proven nuclear engineering expertise.
Regulatory and localization strategies are being developed to guarantee a safe, efficient, and fully EU-aligned deployment. By working closely with top-tier legal advisors like Asters, the platform ensures that all preparatory phases strictly comply with both Ukrainian nuclear regulations and Western European safety standards. This approach establishes a transparent, bankable framework for international nuclear vendors and institutional investors.
These advanced technologies hold a strategic role in delivering permanent, long-term resilience and a completely carbon-neutral baseload power supply. While solar and wind provide immediate, capital-efficient scaling, SMRs offer the steady, weather-independent foundation required to secure Ukraine’s industrial sovereignty, balance the broader renewable ecosystem, and solidify its position as a key energy exporter to the European market.

Grid Modernization

Digitalization of networks is deployed to transform the legacy infrastructure into an intelligent power system, ensuring maximum operational efficiency, technical reliability, and real-time monitoring capability. By integrating advanced SCADA systems and digital substations, the platform enables predictive maintenance, minimizes transmission losses, and ensures instant fault detection across all regional grid segments.
Flexibility tools and smart grids serve as the technical enablers for the seamless integration of renewable energy sources (RES) and decentralized systems. Coupled with utility-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) within our portfolio, these smart grid capabilities actively balance intermittent solar and wind generation, mitigate network congestion, and provide vital demand-response mechanisms to stabilize the national energy balance.
Upgraded transmission and distribution infrastructure is structurally engineered to align directly with ENTSO-E and stringent European grid standards. By removing technical bottlenecks and modernizing interconnected nodes, these upgrades not only secure local power quality but also strengthen the physical cross-border capacity required to embed Ukraine deeply into the collective European energy security framework.

Energy Storage

Utility-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are deployed directly into our infrastructure assets to actively stabilize the grid and manage the natural intermittency of renewable power generation. By providing rapid-response frequency regulation, peak shaving, and active load balancing, BESS infrastructure transforms volatile solar and wind outputs into reliable, dispatchable power capable of meeting stringent grid requirements.
Hybrid storage solutions, including hydrogen and advanced thermal technologies, are integrated across our broader portfolio to deliver long-term seasonal storage and added systemic resilience. These multi-technology applications enable the capture of excess green electron generation, converting it into high-value alternative energy carriers that secure independent industrial supply and diversify platform revenue streams.
Fast deployment capability serves as a core operational feature of our storage-related infrastructure. Utilizing highly modular, pre-engineered, and containerized configurations, these systems can be rapidly mobilized to critical nodes, immediately securing regional energy supply, protecting local civilian populations, and preventing widespread blackouts during periods of extreme external shock or acute crisis.

Innovative Technologies

Future-oriented pilot projects are designed to introduce hydrogen, hybrid renewable systems, and digital energy management tools directly into the Ukrainian landscape. By deploying multi-technology configurations—such as combining wind, solar, and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)—the platform optimizes yield and creates highly flexible generation profiles. Supported by an advanced technology network including Czechatom and industrial engineering capacity from Witkowitz, these initiatives pave the way for next-generation energy infrastructure.
Research & Development programs actively support Ukraine’s structural alignment with global energy innovation trends and European regulatory standards. Our development framework incorporates cross-border legal, financial, and technical expertise from leading institutions like BDO, Asters, and Brodies LLP, ensuring that new operational models are fully bankable and compliant with the EU Taxonomy. This integration positions the platform at the forefront of the continent's deep decarbonization and modernization efforts.
Deployment of scalable, replicable models serves as the core mechanism to accelerate the modernization of the entire energy sector. Rather than focusing on isolated, high-risk single assets, ELQ Investments utilizes a centralized, corporate-level platform strategy that oversees a 1,126 MW broader ecosystem. These standardized, Ready-to-Build (RTB) frameworks can be rapidly duplicated across different regions using trusted EPC partners like UTEM, KNESS, and SPP Development Ukraine, significantly reducing development timelines and fast-tracking the country's energy independence.

Ukraine Energy Sub-Fund — Regulatory Status & Compliance

The sub-fund is structured to ensure absolute transparency, institutional compliance, and robust governance, with all operational and financial activities aligned strictly to AIFMD, MiFID II, SFDR, and EU Taxonomy standards. This high-tier regulatory integration guarantees long-term credibility, physical and operational stability, and cross-border confidence for both institutional investors and private partners.

At the current stage, the Ukraine Energy Sub-Fund is presented exclusively under pre-marketing conditions, in strict accordance with European Union directives and Czech National Bank (CNB) regulatory requirements. No offering of investment units, placement of shares, or binding financial commitments is being solicited or accepted at this time. All communications, documentation, and presentations are strictly informational and serve solely to introduce the strategic scope, pipeline readiness, and institutional asset-management framework of the sub-fund.

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