Tripoli thermal power plant (Kyiv region), part of the state energogeneriruyuschey organization " Centrenergo ", December 21, stopped the work of the last unit, coal-fired, due to lack of fuel, said at a press conference, Deputy Minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Oleksandr svetlik.

" Yesterday (December 21st ) we stopped last coal block Trypilska TPP, " he said, Svetelika Agency UNIAN.

according to him, warehouses TPP were only 2 thousand tons of Coal, which cannot be used for electricity generation. He complements his words by the fact that the station remained in operation one unit, which works on natural gas.

Because of opposition in Kiev Donbass lost the majority of coal mines. Coal is not enough, and among them, for the production of electricity. From 1 December in Ukraine are rolling blackouts. They touched and the Crimea, which receives a substantial part of electricity From Ukraine. Kiev is forced to import coal, and among them from Russia.

Svetlik before the first day of the week also said that the warehouses of the Ukrainian thermal power plants today there are only about 1, 5 million tons of Coal in the normal inventory level 4-5 million tons.

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