General Energy Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine celebrated 25 years since its foundation

General Energy Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IZE of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) is a center of fundamental and applied scientific research aimed at solving national strategic issues of energy development in Ukraine.

The activity of the Institute began in 1988, when by Resolution No. 138 of the Bureau of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR dated 04/07/1988 on the basis of the Department of Problems of Conversion and Use of Electricity of the Institute of Electrodynamics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Departments of System Research in Energy and High-Temperature Energy Conversion of the Institute of Modeling Problems in Energy of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and the Complex of Thermometry in Energy of the Institute of Technical Thermophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, the Institute of Energy Saving Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (IPE of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR) with a Special Design and Technology Bureau with experimental production was established.

Volodymyr Tonkal, a well-known scientist in the field of energy, energy saving and conversion technology, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, was elected the director of the IPE of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

Director of IPE of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, member-cor. Volodymyr Yukhimovych Tonkal, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR

After the declaration of Ukraine's independence, the Institute of Energy Conservation Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR became the Institute of Energy Conservation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IPE of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).

Among the most significant results of the work of IPE of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is the development of the Comprehensive State Energy Saving Program of Ukraine, which was put into effect by Resolution No. 148 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated 05.02.1997. The scientific director of the development of this important state document was at that time the corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine .M. Kulyk, leading scientists of the IPE of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine were involved in the work.