Demchyshyn: Russia supplies Ukraine up to 900 MW of electrical energy per day

Russia delivers every day Ukraine 800-900 megawatt of electrical energy on the parallel operation due to the scarcity of the resource in the Ukrainian power system, said on the first day of the week the head of the Ministry of energy and coal industry Volodymyr demchyshyn.

According to his statement, for the last two days in total from the system were disabled to 2, 5 gigawatts for different reasons.

"Today the situation is extremely tense. At this point of time somewhere 800-900 megawatt we receive in parallel from our neighbors (from Russia). This resource is currently no agreement on imports, but for parallel operation. This support system flows, " demchyshyn said at a press conference. According to him, Ukraine until not pay for these supplies.

"at the end of the month we will see what will be the balance. I hope that some we give the capacity, " the Minister added.

Under current arrangements, the Russian "inter RAO" supplies electricity to Ukraine. At the same time with this, subsidiary of "inter RAO" - company "the Center of settlement" (DH) buys electricity in "Ukrenergo" for Crimea, which is currently 70-80% dependent on the supply of electric energy from Ukraine.

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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