Electricity supply from Ukraine to Crimea in the last month of summer will be one and a half times greater than its imports from Kiev Russia to the statements of the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of energy Vladimir Demchishin.
"There is a flow of electrical energy. Buy cheaper and sell at 90 (Ukrainian - ed.) cents - at that price, which was recorded by the NERC. Buy cheaper, because there is a currency difference, currently the ruble significantly devalued - 64 (rubles per dollar - ed.), for this reason, There is a little gap, " demchyshyn said at a press conference on the first day of the week.
according to his statement, on August the import of electric energy from Russia will be at the level of 300 million kW. Hours every day, whereas in the Crimea comes about 450 million kWh. H.
last week, the newspaper "Kommersant" wrote that Ukraine in early August again started to import electricity under a contract with " inter RAO ". Before that, in July, when in Ukraine, for various reasons, were disconnected from the system many power plants, electricity in the country is imported from the Russian Federation in the framework of emergency assistance.
Demchyshyn expressed the hope that before the heating season, the supply situation of coal is stabilized and Kiev will refuse to import electric power from Russia. According to him, import of electricity from Russia is to " force majeure ".
in mid-July, energy Minister Alexander Novak reported that in the summer, Ukraine did not want from the purchases of Russian electric energy above the amounts agreed.
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