I'd like to follow up a bit with whichever witness would like to address this, and again, thank you very much for taking the time to testify no matter whatever time zone you happen to be in. I know in Europe it's later than here.
I understand that Ukraine has signed the EU association agreement, and they're moving toward membership. That will require they move toward greater harmonization with the EU regulations. I know that the European environment commission has a number of environmental, energy efficiency, and so forth, requirements. There seems to be some agreement that the price will be the main driver, which is understandable, on energy efficiency.
I'm wondering whether Mr. Dem'ianiuk could speak to this, but probably also Dr. Aslund, or perhaps others know. I'm not sure who actually provides the electricity, or specifically the gas, directly to the clientele, whether it's different for the homeowners, big industry, small industry. The California PG&E some years back made a decision. Either they could invest in more, very expensive electricity generation, or they could choose to invest in helping small business, large business, and homeowners to retrofit, and then they could also reduce pollution and address climate change. I'm wondering if those kinds of solutions might be possible for Ukraine, given the IMF has already directed that they must move toward energy efficiency.
Can anybody elaborate for us on what kinds of options might be available, given the generation and supply regime for Ukraine at present?
Mr. Dem'ianiuk, perhaps you would like to speak to it first. Do you have any comment on that?