Olha Anatoliyivna Buslavets (; born 5 March 1975) is a Ukrainian power engineer and civil servant. From 16 April 2020 until 20 November 2020 she was (at first) the Acting Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection and (after a government reshuffle on 27 May 2020) Minister of Energy.
Education
She graduated from Donetsk State Technical University (1997). Buslavets is a Candidate of Technical Sciences. In 2018 she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences at Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute. He is a co-author of numerous scientific papers on improving the efficiency of electricity transmission and distribution.
Employment
Since 2000 she has worked in the energy supply company of Donetsk Coal as an engineer-economist. 2003 - 2005 - accountant, engineer of the 1st category of SE "Donetskenergovugol". In 2005 she joined the Ministry of Coal Industry of Ukraine as the Chief Specialist of the Department of Electricity. Since 2006 - in senior positions in this department. 2015 - 2017 - Director of the Department of Electricity Complex of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine. 2017 - 2020 - Director General of the Directorate of Energy Markets of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry. From April 16 to November 20, 2020 - Minister of Energy of Ukraine. At the meeting of the Government Olga Buslavets was appointed First Deputy Minister in accordance with the order of April 16, 2020 № 429. Also the order of 16.04.2020 № 430 temporarily entrusts Olga Buslavets with the duties of the Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine renamed the Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine to the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine by Resolution of May 27, 2020 № 425 “Some issues of optimization of the system of central executive bodies”. The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine was also established by this resolution. On November 20, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at an extraordinary meeting adopted a decision to declare invalid the order of the Cabinet of Ministers of June 3, 2020 №604 ("On the temporary assignment of the Minister of Energy to Buslavets OA). Olga Buslavets published a letter of resignation from the post of First Deputy Minister of Energy on December 21, 2020.
Professional achievements
She is a co-author of a number of laws and legislative initiatives in the field of energy and energy security, including the Law of Ukraine "On Electricity Market" and the Law "On Amendments to Some Laws of Ukraine on Competitive Eclectic Energy Production from Alternative Energy Sources ". Buslavets supports the draft Law on the Electricity Market, which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on April 13, 2017. This law became the basis for the introduction of a new approach in the Ukrainian energy market. She was a member of the Coordination Center for ensuring the introduction of a new electricity market, headed by a working group at the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry to implement the provisions of the Law of Ukraine "On Electricity Market". In 2016-2020 she headed the Ukrainian-Danish Energy Center implemented under the Agreement between the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Danish United Kingdom.
During the period of leadership of the Ministry of Energy, a number of crisis situations were resolved and work began on strategic reforms in the energy sector.
The operation of the electricity market has been stabilized: the rules of operation of market participants have been improved, the financial condition of state-owned energy companies has been improved, and consumers have been able to buy electricity at a competitive / fair price.
The crisis in the renewable energy sector has been resolved: a Memorandum of Understanding with investors has been signed, the green tariff without its extension has been reduced, payments for electricity produced from RES have been resumed, and conditions for green auctions for further development of renewable energy have been improved.
The procedure for holding a tender for the construction of high-shunting generating capacity to ensure the safety of the power system and the future synchronization of the UES of Ukraine to the European energy system ENTSO-E has been improved.
Miners' strikes were stopped, domestic coal was sold, miners were returned to work, wage arrears were repaid, and the Coal Reform Concept was developed.