History
In 1996, with the aim of deepening and accelerating research on the development of clean, high-efficiency coal energy technologies for the energy sector and implementing their results at thermal power plants in Ukraine, a Scientific and Technical Center for Coal Energy Technologies (STCCET) was established. This was based on the Department of High-Temperature Energy Conversion of the Institute of Energy Conservation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, through a joint decree by the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, B.E. Paton, and the Minister of Energy and Electrification of Ukraine, O. M. Sheberstov, dated February 12, 1996, No. 20/29. The main scientific directions of its activities were defined as follows:
- development of new high-efficiency, environmentally clean technologies for the combustion and gasification of domestic coal for use in Ukraine's energy sector;
- thermal and electro-physical research aimed at increasing the efficiency of converting thermal energy into electrical energy;
- ful emissions from thermal power plants into the environment.
To ensure the reliable operation and sustainable development of the energy sector, as well as to fulfill the tasks concerning Ukraine's energy independence, guided by the laws of Ukraine "On the Management of State-Owned Property" and "On the Features of the Legal Regime of Activity of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sectoral Academies of Sciences, and the Status of Their Property Complex," the Statute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and considering the excerpt from the protocol of the Bureau of the Department of Physical and Technical Problems of Energy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine dated February 23, 2021, No. 3 regarding the renaming of the Institute of Coal Energy Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine—it is now known as the Institute of Thermal Energy Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Over the past thirty years, continuously improving and expanding, it has undergone a series of transformations - from the Division of High-Temperature Energy Conversion (DHTEC) of the NAS of Ukraine, which served as the basis for its establishment, to the Scientific and Technical Center for Coal Energy Technologies (STCCET) of the NAS of Ukraine and the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, and finally to the Institute of Coal Energy Technologies (ICET) of the NAS of Ukraine, which it currently succeeds. The STCCET - ICET was headed by: Academician of the NAS of Ukraine, Yu.P. Korchuev (1997-2009), and Academician of the NAS of Ukraine, O.Yu. Maistreko (2009-2011). Currently, the institute is headed by N. I. Dunaievska.

In the year of the 100th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2018), a book titled "Institute of Coal Energy Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: History and Present" was published, summarizing the history of the establishment and development of the Institute as a leading scientific organization in the field of thermal energy.
