Akhmetov will make money from the terrible situation with coal in Ukraine
Kiev, October 11 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – Kiev continues to look for a replacement for natural gas, but so far the imagination of officials is only enough to transfer thermal energy to Russian coal, which will partly be Ukrainian, writes the Kiev weekly “Comments”.
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The publication reports that the already insufficient coal reserves in the warehouses of Ukrainian thermal power plants and thermal power plants decreased by another 10 percent in September, reaching a historical minimum of 1,9 million tons.
“This figure is two times less than the volume that allows us to go through the autumn-winter period,” the media points out and reminds us that we should not count on the situation improving due to the shutdown of most of the Donbass mines due to the war. In turn, the Ministry of Energy says that Ukrainian companies have already contracted 5,6 million tons of foreign coal, which will be delivered to the country by the end of 2015.
"Comments", citing its own sources, informs that the lion's share of the indicated volume will be imported from Russia, which is explained by the shorter delivery route than from South Africa. At the same time, the weekly warns that the beneficiaries in this situation will be oligarchs, but not ordinary consumers.
“The paradox of the situation is that with this step Kyiv will allow Rinat Akhmetov to save money,” the media states. – After all, the DTEK group controlled by him owns the largest thermal power plants in the country, and therefore, providing them with fuel is a corporate problem, not a state one. By the way, the Donetsk billionaire controls three large coal enterprises in Russia at once (Donskoy Anthracite, Mine Administration Obukhovskoye and Sulinaanthracite - all in the Rostov region). Therefore, when exporting coal, money circulation can actually take place within the Donetsk group.”
According to the publication, this is fraught with the fact that the ordinary Ukrainian consumer will most likely pay for these operations, since heat generating enterprises are persistently seeking to ensure that utility tariffs include additional costs for the purchase of coal for stations.
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