On Thursday 17 September 2026, the Luxembourg-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce (LUCC) announced that its Energy Infrastructure and Municipal Resilience Committee had recently met, bringing together Ukrainian and European experts to discuss how identified infrastructure needs in Ukraine could be turned into completed, financeable projects.
The meeting, held on Wednesday 9 September 2026 as part of the LUCC Advisory Platform, brought together technical experts, project developers and Luxembourg-based partners. According to LUCC, discussions focused on project preparation and delivery, as well as the role of physical security, cybersecurity and supply-chain resilience in strengthening investor confidence.
The chamber noted that European support for Ukraine's municipal and energy infrastructure continues to expand. In September 2026, the European Union (EU) announced a €30 million grant for frontline communities, complementing €200 million in European Investment Bank (EIB) financing for municipal heating, energy-efficiency and renewable-energy projects. According to LUCC, the wider EU energy-security effort has exceeded €4 billion since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Against this background, the committee examined how available financing could be converted into completed infrastructure projects. Participants identified project preparation, municipal capacity, reliable data, procurement, borrowing procedures, physical and cyber resilience and risk allocation as factors affecting whether projects progress from concept to implementation.
“The challenge is no longer simply to identify Ukraine's infrastructure needs. We know many of them. The challenge is to turn those needs into projects that can actually be prepared, financed, procured and delivered. Luxembourg can help connect credible Ukrainian projects with the financial, technical and institutional expertise needed to move them from priority lists to implementation,” said Evgenia Paliy, President of LUCC.
Vitaliy Radchenko, Managing Partner and Head of the Energy & Projects practice at CMS Ukraine, moderated the session and presented material from Ukraine's transmission system operator concerning infrastructure damage, system needs and opportunities in distributed generation. These included flexible gas-fired generation, biomass and biofuel projects, storage, as well as wind and solar projects paired with batteries.
Danylo Moiseienko, Founder-Analyst for Energy Cooperation with Ukraine at Forum Energii, presented research concerning the renovation of municipal public buildings. He distinguished between the overall financing shortfall and a capacity gap that can limit municipalities' ability to make use of financing that is already available.
The discussion highlighted that projects can stall at various stages, including planning, data collection, energy audits, feasibility work, borrowing approval, procurement and construction. Participants noted that municipal energy plans, building inventories and reliable consumption data were needed to identify priorities.
Smaller municipalities, they added, may require grant-funded project preparation, simplified procedures and regional technical support. Grouping smaller projects into portfolios was also identified as a potential way of reducing preparation costs and making projects more attractive to financiers.
Jean Philippe Boever, Angel Investor and Chief Strategist for Sales & Marketing at GridCop, subsequently addressed physical security, cyber risks, human-factor vulnerabilities and layered monitoring of critical infrastructure. He stressed a defence-in-depth approach, noting that infrastructure being buried, fenced, encrypted or access-controlled does not automatically make it secure.
Participants also discussed the interdependence of electricity, water, heating, telecommunications, transport and sewage systems, noting that an incident affecting one operator could have consequences across several services.
Adrian Pawelec, Partner and Head of Legal at Marguerite, shared experience from renewable energy, battery, renovation and infrastructure investment. He referred to Italian building-efficiency and public-lighting programmes as possible reference points for Ukraine.
Martin Boehm, Senior Advisor to the Board of LUCC, highlighted the need for intermediaries or project-development teams capable of connecting municipalities and individual projects with financing institutions.
Closing the session, Evgenia Paliy reiterated Luxembourg's readiness to connect credible Ukrainian projects with relevant financial, technical and institutional expertise and to work through the LUCC Advisory Platform to develop a pipeline of projects capable of absorbing available financing.
LUCC summarised the discussion by noting that, while further financing was required, project preparation and delivery capacity would determine whether the available capital resulted in completed infrastructure.
The chamber said its next steps would include exploring Luxembourg-Ukraine municipal cooperation and assessing support for a structured overview of Ukrainian municipalities' infrastructure needs. LUCC also plans to identify technical advisers, project developers, energy service companies, lenders and project-preparation specialists who could be matched with municipal projects.
