New energy, new options for communities
Rural and settlement communities largely fall outside the attention of energy market players, simply because their demand is small. Yet one of the key advantages of renewable energy is exactly that it can be local and scaled to a specific need. We set out to close that gap and help communities solve their energy problems with new energy solutions.
About this practice
Rural and settlement councils face the same problems as cities: expensive energy, cold buildings, water supply and boiler houses stopping during outages. The difference is scale — and scale is what pushes a community outside the market’s attention. A large contractor has no interest in preparing a few-hundred-kilowatt project, and a large lender none in a loan of a few million hryvnia.
We start from the problem, not the solution. First we look at where the community is losing money or energy right now: bill structure, contracts, consumption patterns, condition of equipment. That step alone delivers part of the result, with no capital spend. Only then do we calculate which solution actually pays back in these particular conditions — solar, storage, a heating measure, small wind, backup power, or a combination. We do not narrow the list of solutions in advance: the problem determines the solution.
Every solution is written up so that it can actually be implemented — and we identify how: the community’s own resources, grant support, or bringing in a private partner.
Who it is for
Rural or settlement council
A handful of public buildings, water and heat in one balance, and the need to find resources to finance critical facilities.
Municipal utility of a community
Water mains, boiler house, lighting: small but critical facilities, where an outage stops the service for the whole settlement — and where funds for modernisation are usually short.
ESCO company and grant organisation
The capital is there, a steady pipeline of clients is not. Working with us and with communities creates a stable, predictable flow of clients who need capital to solve their energy problems.
Completed and current projects
Water-well power supply project, Hrechani Pody
Our operating principles
- The community’s problem determines the solution, not a catalogue. We do not limit the list in advance — only the calculation does.
- First we establish the current state. Then what can be optimised. Then investment decisions.
- We calculate hour by hour — 8,760 hours a year. Scale does not change the method: a calculation for a community must withstand the same review as one for a city.
- We are not tied to equipment suppliers and take no commission from them.
- We see solutions through to the result — including with our own capital.
Seeing it through
A calculation on its own changes nothing. So this practice includes two things without which a project stays on paper.
Financing
At community scale the money comes not from international banks but from other sources: an ESCO contract, where the investment is repaid out of actual savings; the community’s own funds; Cossack Energy’s own resources; small grant programmes. We know what each of them requires and prepare the project to fit from the start.
Support through delivery
We stay with the project to the end: preparing the decision for the council session, procurement requirements, reviewing contractor bids, overseeing delivery, and verifying the actual savings once installed.
