Minister of energy of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn has assured the Ukrainians that the authorities In the current year will not allow rolling blackouts.

Kiev has a problem with the accumulation of coal in the warehouses of heat power plants, a similar situation was in the past year, while the Ukrainian authorities had to practice rolling blackouts of electric power enterprises and the population to stabilise the power system.

"I wish to reassure, rolling power outages In the current year will not be," said Demchyshyn at the meeting of the Cabinet on the last working day of the week devoted to the report of the government for the work done.

He added that the previous week in the warehouses of thermal power plants came to accumulate 120 thousand tons of coal in preparation for the heating season. According to the Minister, to Kiev for the normal passage of winter must purchase at least 1. 5 million tons of coal.

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