New phase of the EU-Ukraine exchange programme for LED bulbs kicks off

18 August marked the beginning of the next phase of the All-Ukrainian programme on exchanging incandescent light bulbs for energy-saving LED bulbs, run by the Ukrainian Government and the European Union.

Its goal is to strengthen Ukraine’s energy security by replacing 50 million old energy-intensive bulbs with modern LEDs.

The programme was launched this January, and since then more than 4 million Ukrainians have received LED bulbs in exchange for their old incandescent variants. 

As of June this year, the exchange has been made available to legal entities in the healthcare and education sectors at all levels. Overall, over 20 million light bulbs have been exchanged.

The Ukrainian government has now enabled the free exchange for new categories of legal entity consumers, namely:

• cultural institutions (of municipal and state ownership);
• social welfare institutions and specialised support services for individuals who have suffered from domestic and gender-based violence (of municipal and state ownership);
• physical culture and sports facilities (of municipal ownership);
• entities that deliver housing management services or apartment building co-owners associations.

As in the previous phases, applications to exchange light bulbs shall be submitted through the Diia portal.

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Press release