Mykolaiv to spend an additional ₴2 million on street lighting by year-end

Street lighting in Mykolaiv during the winter, photo from open sources

In Mykolaiv, there are plans to purchase additional electricity for street lighting in Varvarivka, Velyka Korenyha and Mala Korenyha by the end of 2026. The expected cost of the purchase is almost 2 million hryvnias.

This is according to data from the ProZorro e-procurement system, as reported by NikVesti.

In total, the company plans to purchase 218,600 kilowatt-hours of electricity to power streetlights in these neighbourhoods. The supply is scheduled for the final quarter of the year — up to 31 December.

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The documents explain that the additional purchase is necessary due to an expected shortfall in funds and electricity volumes under the previous contract. The «Mykolaiv Electricity Supply Company» has been designated as the universal service provider for these areas.

NikVesti previously reported that 14.4 million hryvnias are planned to be spent on street lighting in Mykolaiv during the last three months of 2026. At that time, the company announced two procurement contracts: one worth 2.9 million hryvnias for the Korabelnyi District and one worth 11.5 million for the rest of the city, excluding Varvarivka, Velyka Korenyha and Mala Korenyha.

Taking the new procurement into account, the total expected cost of electricity for street lighting across all the aforementioned areas of Mykolaiv for the final quarter of the year amounts to approximately 16.4 million hryvnias.

Street lighting in Mykolaiv

At the start of the full-scale invasion, street lighting in Mykolaiv was switched off. It was only restored in January 2023.

Following this, Dmytro Bezdolnyi, Director of the Mykolaiv Department of Housing and Communal Services, explained why there was no street lighting in some parts of the city.

In May 2023, the city announced a tender for the procurement of LED street lights and lighting fittings worth 47.6 million hryvnias. Over the course of a year, more than 4,000 energy-efficient LED lights of various wattages were installed in Mykolaiv. The city’s street lighting cost more than 46.2 million hryvnias throughout 2023.

In May 2024, the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, outlined plans to completely replace the city’s lighting with LED technology in order to minimise electricity consumption.

It is worth noting that as early as the beginning of 2024, the mayor stated that of the 160 million hryvnias required for street lighting in Mykolaiv, the budget had allocated only 80 million for half a year. At present, thanks to the savings made, the city has sufficient funds.

In October 2025, the mayor promised to find out how much the city spends on street lighting after midnight. A month later, it emerged that an extra hour of lighting costs the budget approximately 10 million hryvnias a year.

To reduce the strain on the grid, street lighting cuts were introduced in Mykolaiv as early as December 2025. The lights are switched off in courtyards and on minor streets, whilst main roads, accident-prone sections, junctions, bridges, level crossings and flyovers remain lit for safety reasons.