Slavic thermal power plant in Donetsk region resumed, however, the number of coal that is in stock station, only enough for four days of work, informs a press-service of the Ukrainian energy organization " Donbasenergo ".
"Today from the dispatcher DP, NPC Ukrenergo has been on the generating capacity Slavic TPP.(...) taking into account the stop Uglegorsk thermal power plants due to the destruction of outgoing lines Donbass-1 and Donbass-2, the lack of capacity in the power system of Ukraine is about 2 thousand MV ? reported in the report on the Internet representation of the organization.
yesterday the head of Ministry of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Volodymyr demchyshyn said that the country must " in two and a half months, until mid-October of this year, double the number of coal companies ? with 1, 5 million tons to 3 million tons. August 1, in the absence of coal Ukraine's largest private energy holding DTEK, controlled by businessman Rinat Akhmetov, has stopped working Prydniprovska TPP. On July 31, the head of Ukrainian government Arseniy Yatsenyuk said about the critical situation in the energy sector of the country, noting that the Ministry of energy and the organization is not ready to supply people warm this winter. On 10 July, the Minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Volodymyr demchyshyn said that the completion of preparations for the heating season in Ukraine is not enough resources for the purchase of natural gas and coal. According to the calculations of the Ukrainian energy Ministry, by winter, the country should stock up on stock of 1, 2?1, 3 million tons of coal. At the moment Ukraine has managed to garner 1, 6 million tons of coal.

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