Andrian Prokip

Senior Associate, Ukraine

Professional Affiliation

Director, Energy Program, Ukrainian Institute for the Future

Expert Bio

Andrian Prokip is the director of Energy Program at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, an independent think tank in Kyiv, and serves as a Senior Associate at the Kennan Institute. He has scholarships in USA, received his PhD in 2010 and habilitation in 2019. On the regular basis, Dr. Prokip publishes op-eds in the US and EU tracking changes and reforms in the Ukrainian energy sector and general changes in the country as well.

Main Publications

Economic, Environmental and Organizational Principles of Renewables’ Spatial Energy Usage, Lviv, Ukraine, 2015, 337 p.

Strengthening of Energy Security: Past, Present, Future, Lviv, Ukraine, 2011, 153 p.

Environmental and Economic Assessment of Nonrenewable Recourses Substitution with Biomass, Lviv, Ukraine, 2010, 212 p.

Professional Honors

2013 – Winner of Ukrainian Energy Security Strategy Project

Fellowships

October 2014-present − Member of Younger Generation Task Force Euro-Atlantic Security

Area of Scientific Interest

Geopolitics of Energy in Europe, Transition to Sustainable Energy Security, Spatial Usage of Renewable Energy Sources

Wilson Center Project

Development of Spatial Renewable Energy Sources Usage For Sustainable Energy Security Strengthening

Project Summary

Sustainability of energy security is relative to problems of providing people with affordable, clean and sustainable energy, without political pressure energy exporting countries. Base of building sustainability and achieving sustainable energy security is at local level – in using renewables located within small area to provide neighboring consumers with energy, decrease environment pollution, decrease energy dependency from other countries and strengthen national energy security. Spatial usage renewables means choosing the best one alternative among all available options of using accessible energy sources to substitute used non-renewable energy sources or to cover the existing energy deficit (under the conditions of energy demand and prices for those variants realization compared to existing costs of energy supplying). The main aim of the project is to find the way for available biomass and other renewable energy sources usage together with non-renewable energy sources so that to decrease national and regional energy dependency with maximum of environmental and economic effects under certain regional conditions.