Yatsenyuk: Ukraine needs to pass the winter accumulate 7-11 million tons of coal

Ukraine is necessary for the autumn-winter period to accumulate a positive outcome 7 million tons of coal, at negative eleven million tons, said the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on the first day of the week during the meeting of the anti-crisis energy headquarters.

"I see two scenarios: bad At minus 5 and very bad - At minus 20. At minus 5 degrees need 7 million tons, At 20 degrees eleven million tons, " he said, pointing to the opinion of foreign experts on the situation in the energy sector of Ukraine.

Minister of energy of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn before it declared that Ukraine is in the process of preparation for the heating season will be forced to buy coal from all possible suppliers, and so does Russia. According to him, today's supply of coal is 1, 5 million tons before the start of the heating season in Kyiv plans to save 3 million tons.

before the Head of "Naftogaz of Ukraine" Andrey Kobelev said that, according to the opinion of foreign specialists, who for months was looking at the situation in the energy sector of Ukraine, Kiev, during the heating season it is necessary to accumulate a minimum level of gas to 17 billion cubic meters, and at the same time, Naftogaz, taking into account past experience and the possibility of conflict situations with Russian "Gazprom" considers that it is more convenient to accumulate to the beginning of the heating season 19 billion cubic meters.

The volume of gas in underground storages (UGS) of Ukraine on 31 July was 12, 969 billion cubic meters, an increase per day on 0, 31%, inform the data on the Internet representation of the Association of European operators of the underground gas storages (GSE). First, the Ukrainian government decided to form a reserve Fund of natural gas and/or oil at $ 1 billion by attracting credits under state guarantees.


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