Accumulation of coal in Ukraine decreased to limit
In the last month of summer ? September accumulation of anthracite coal group (brands And P) in Ukraine was reduced four times To limit 440 thousand Tons, according to the Ministry of energy and coal industry of provisions ensuring fuel thermal power plants of Ukraine. " United energy system of Ukraine is working today in difficult conditions caused by lack of fuel and destruction of electrical networks and infrastructure as a result of hostilities in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. In connection with the production decline and the inability shipment of Russian coal grades And P accumulation of coal these brands for August and September fell by 4 times To limit 440 thousand tons ", - TASS quoted the letter reads. To cover the deficit of fuel delivered imported coal, the Ministry underlines. Before the end of the current year is expected to import about 4, 2 tons of coal grades And P, which will give the opportunity to provide stable operation of thermal power plants and make the necessary accumulation of coal Danabank, last Friday at a meeting with heads of parliaments of the European countries, the head of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov has admitted that his country was " huge " coal shortage. Before the Minister of energy and coal industry 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. His Ukrainian coal power plants will only last Until November, said first independent trade Union of miners of the country. According to him, at the beginning of September in warehouses TPP were 1, 7 million tons of coal. In the last month of summer Authorised the Ministry of energy of Ukraine told that because of fighting in the Donbass country has for the first time over a long period to start to import steam coal For power plants, adding that delivery shall be effected from Australia, New Zealand and maybe USA. We emphasize that stop mining coal in the Donbass threatens Ukraine's energy disaster. According to the envoy Institute for economic research and policy consulting Dmytro Naumenko, Ukraine cheaper to import coal from South Africa, rather than to apply their own "." Ukrainian coal is very expensive, the coal industry is subsidized, for this reason it is cheaper to import from South Africa and America, where the cost of fuel is very low. Us such projects profitable, " said Naumenko.