Our power stations do run on coal but that's not the problem.

Electrical planners told the government in the 90s that due to population and economic growth and the limited lifespan of any power station, the country would have insufficient generation capacity by 2008 and that new power stations needed to be commissioned. They were ignored... In 2008, capacity did run out and then new power stations were commissioned, expected to be fully online in 2016.

Around 2009 a highly corrupt faction took control of the ruling party and state-owned electricity generation was the focus of their looting. The existing infrastructure wasn't maintained and the new power plants were actively sabotaged, so that our looters could do an amazingly corrupt nuclear power generation deal with Russia that would have bankrupted the country. ((Our ruling party also has long ties to USSR due to the cold war which caused many hot wars in Africa and somehow they think that Putin's Russia cares for them))
Finally, society woke up and started to fight back. The corrupt faction was partially removed and then the task was to fix it. Of course there was still plenty of sabotage and it has taken much longer than it should have. A large part of the reason why the ruling party lost power in May but where we go next is not clear.

Hopefully your rebuilding process in Ukraine goes for greener energy generation but it is going to be a long road. We also need to get away from coal in my country