Ukrainian Firm conducted a dialogue about buying American coal

Ukrainian state company " Centrenergo " held dialogues with the authorized organization Recursion Ventures the possibility of delivery of American coal to Ukraine, said the press service of " Centrenergo ".
" During the meetings were held preliminary conversations about the possibility of delivery American thermal coal desired brands in the power plant of PJSC " Centrenergo ", - reported in the report on the Internet representation of the Ukrainian organization. It is noted that the main attention during the meeting was paid to the basic technical characteristics of coal production, the forecast volumes, the terms and conditions of supply and price proposals of the American organization." at the end of the meeting the sides expressed hope for fruitful and mutually beneficial cooperation and quick resolution of problematic issues, " - said in " Centrenergo ". Last week it was announced that the Ukrainian state company " Centrenergo " until the end of 2014 will buy 509 thousand tons of coal from Russia. Later Ukrainian energy Company DTEK, division of financial and industrial group System capital Management (SCM), announced plans to purchase from Russia 1, 3 million tons of anthracite coal grades before the end of the current year. Remember last week Kuzbasskaya Toplivnaya Company (CPC) announced that it is ready to supply coal to Ukraine if the Ukrainian side will offer a good price. The head of the Ministry of energy of Ukraine Yuriy Prodan said that after a failure in the supply of coal from South Africa in Kiev left with two options - to buy it in Russia or in the Donbass. The government of Donetsk national Republic told about ready to sell the coal to all countries, Except Ukraine ". As reported in the print edition GLANCE, coal shortage threatens to leave Ukraine without electricity. The fighting in the East has led to a sharp decline in coal production - and It serves as a source of fuel for power plants, giving a significant part of Ukrainian electricity. In early November it was announced that in the end military operations in the Donets basin, where 80% of Ukrainian mines, the country lost about 12 million tons of coal. In addition, the Minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Yuriy Prodan said that Ukraine does not have enough coal to produce 30% of electricity. He also said that the Ukrainian private organizations intend to buy before the end of 2014, about 4 million tons of coal from Russia.


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