Several units Trypilska TPP has stopped working due to the lack of coal, said Deputy head of the Ministry of coal industry of Ukraine Oleksandr svetlik.
" we have one station at which coal is not, and yesterday (December 21) stopped the last of the coal block. This trypilska TPP, " said svetlik. According to him, At this point in time Trypilska TPP is working only one gas block, reports TASS. As emphasized by the Ukrainian media, only at station 4 coal-fired and two oil-gas unit. Trypilska TPP located 45 kilometers South of Kyiv. After decommissioning the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, trypilska TPP with an installed capacity of 1800 MW is the largest power generating facility on the square in Kyiv region. The electricity produced by this TPP goes, most importantly, consumers Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Cherkasy regions. Before the first day of the week svetlik said that the accumulation of coal in the Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPP) is about 1, 5 million tons at an average level of reserves before winter 4-5 million tons. Last week the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk has ordered the Ministry of energy to save energy, switch off the illumination advertising, lighting of public buildings and main streets across the country. We emphasize that in early December, the chairmen of the meetings of the Donetsk and Lugansk national republics Andrey Purgin and Alexey Karjakin turned to Russia with a request not to put Ukraine coal brands, which are produced in the Donbass and first bought a Kiev. The Vice Prime Minister Vyacheslav Kyrylenko said that the country will not buy coal uncontrolled Kiev territory of Donbass. Similarly in the beginning of the month the Director of one of the Ukrainian TPPs told the chief editor of the newspaper " Ukrainska Pravda " Sevgili Musayeva-Borovik about the catastrophic situation in power plants due to shortage of coal. Recall, Ukraine is experiencing serious problems with electricity: performance HPS lowest for the last 45 years, destroyed the power and transport infrastructure in the Donbass. In the country there is a shortage of coal to the power station, and the temperature on the streets below normal.


10px

sections: Politics