Coal reserves in Ukraine for the first time exceeded last year’s figures
The chairman of the profile parliamentary committee Andriy Gerus assures that since this winter the coal reserves in the TPP and CHP warehouses have increased by 51% or 248 thousand. tons.
Coal reserves in the warehouses of large thermal power plants and large thermal power plants / photo UNIAN
Coal reserves in the current autumn-winter period for the first time exceeded last year’s figures.
Andriy Gerus, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Housing and Communal Policy Telegram.
“On Friday, January 14, coal reserves in the warehouses of TPPs and CHPs for the first time in this RAM exceeded coal reserves on the same date last year. As of January 14, 2022, the warehouse had 734.1 thousand tons. 711.1 thousand . tons, “he wrote.
According to the deputy, since the beginning of this winter, coal reserves in the warehouses of thermal power plants and combined heat and power plants have increased by 51% or 248 thousand tons.
Gerus states that “one of the main factors of such dynamics was the coal port, in particular the sea direction.”
“As of January 14, DTEK has received 7 vessels and Centerenergo 4 vessels with thermal coal. As well as imports of electricity and higher-level generation by Energoatom, which has saved coal,” he said.
Gerus added that as of January 14, 14 of the 15 AES units that do not have a load of 12,045 MW had been found in operation. According to him, a year ago there were 9 out of 15 AES units that do not have a load of 9650 MW.
The situation with coal reserves
Ukraine began to experience an acute shortage of thermal coal in the summer of 2014, when as a result of hostilities in the country completely lost control over the part of Donbass, where a large mine is located. After this country began to import coal.
On November 1, 2021, the Russian Federation stopped exporting thermal coal to Ukraine.
These are coal grade A (anthracite) and T (lean). Such coal was imported by DTEK (Luhansk TPP, Kryvyi Rih TPP), Donbasenergo (Slovyanska TPP) and Technova (Darnytsya TPP, Sumy TPP, Chernihiv TPP).
In January-November 2021, Ukraine increased its monetary expenditures on imports of coal and anthracite by 31% compared to the same period last year – up to 2.068 billion dollars.
On December 30, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said that the National Security and Defense Council would monitor the purchase of coal for domestic thermal power plants.
At the same time, experts expressed concern that coal reserves at Ukraine’s thermal power plants remain low. However, the Cabinet of Ministers has repeatedly stated that the situation with the supply of this type of fuel is under control.
