Profile
Oleksiy Butenko
Energy Sector Advisor
- Energy infrastructure
- Biomass and cogeneration
- Ukraine
Founder and managing partner of an infrastructure investment platform in the energy sector, specialising in crisis management in energy and in structuring institutional energy platforms. He has delivered energy projects with roughly 500 MW of combined generating capacity and development projects covering more than 200,000 m². At the end of 2021 he joined Ukraine's state-owned NJSC Naftogaz, where he led and reorganised the Naftogaz Bioenergy subsidiary; his team prepared projects for nine biomass plants across eight regions. In Okhtyrka he built a 40 MW biomass heating plant — one of the most powerful in Europe — in 96 days, restoring heat to a city of 48,000. His first biomass plant, an 18 MW facility in Ivankiv (2016), was financed in partnership with the EBRD.
Biography
Oleksiy Butenko advises the fund on the energy sector. He is the founder and managing partner of an infrastructure investment platform in energy, specialising in crisis management and in structuring institutional energy platforms.
He has delivered energy projects with roughly 500 MW of combined capacity and development projects covering more than 200,000 m². His first biomass plant, an 18 MW facility in Ivankiv, was financed in 2016 in partnership with the EBRD.
At the end of 2021 he joined Ukraine's state-owned NJSC Naftogaz, where he led and reorganised the Naftogaz Bioenergy subsidiary. His team prepared projects for nine biomass plants across eight regions and brought two of them into operation — power generation at the Hrybovychi landfill near Lviv and heat generation in Okhtyrka.
In Okhtyrka he built a 40 MW biomass heating plant — one of the most powerful in Europe — in 96 days and restored heat supply to 48,000 people. Comparable plants normally take 18 to 24 months to build.
He brings the fund hands-on experience in preparing, financing and building generating assets, together with a practice of working with international financial institutions.
Key figures
- ≈ 500 MW
- Energy capacity delivered
- 200,000+ m²
- Development projects delivered
- 96 days
- Construction of the 40 MW plant in Okhtyrka
- 48,000
- People whose heat supply was restored
Career
Founder and managing partner
Infrastructure investment platform in the energy sector
Structuring institutional energy platforms and crisis management in energy.
from the end of 2021
Head of the Naftogaz Bioenergy subsidiary
NJSC Naftogaz
Reorganised the company and prepared projects for nine biomass plants across eight regions.
2016
Investor and project developer
Biogasenergo
An 18 MW biomass plant in Ivankiv, financed in partnership with the EBRD.
Focus
- Energy infrastructure
- Biomass and cogeneration
- Crisis management in energy
- Structuring energy platforms
- Project finance
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