CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Novykova, Onysiia |
|---|---|
| Title | Business Actors in Ukraine's Integration into the EU Energy Market |
| Summary | This thesis responds to the question about the role of business actors in Ukraine's energy sector. Historically, since the declaration of independence, the energy sector in Ukraine has not only been divided into subsectors, but private business actors have also begun to participate in it and play an important role in this sectoral policy making. Along with the state ones, they had to coexist in the same framework until the time of unification of the energy system with the European, which also brought with it new policies and rules. Such processes are accompanied by different obstacles, including those that depend on the ongoing war on the territory of Ukraine. Building upon several theories of policy making and policy lobbying, and agency approaches and utilizing the method of process tracing, this MA thesis conceptualizes causal mechanisms of the EU legislation-based integration, which is tested in the empirical part of the work on the case of Ukraine, its energy sector. The focus is on the impact of business actors and their interactions with the state in the process of Ukraine’s joining the European energy system. The empirical analysis is based upon expert interviews conducted as part of the study, as well as from the data from primary and secondary sources related to the functioning of Ukraine’s energy sector. Major findings present an overview of the situation as of May 2024. The study demonstrates the gaps in the regulatory integration of the Ukrainian energy sector as regards European standards. It also reveals the topic of the implementation of green tariffs and their benefits for private business, as well as the important role of private business in the market: the findings offer that it will sustain in the post-war reconstruction of energy capacities. |
| Supervisor | Melnykovska, Inna |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/novykova_onysiia.pdf |
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