News archive on the topic "Electricity shortage"

The Ukrainian parliament, contrary to the association agreement with the EU, adopted a bill providing for the possibility of temporary regulation of prices on the electricity market. The corresponding decision was made during a plenary session of the Ukrainian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Bill No. 2233 “On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On the Electricity Market” was presented by deputy from the Servant of the People Yuriy Kamelchuk. The bill was sharply criticized by...

“The new democratic government led the country to rolling blackouts in the 90s.” Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was stated by Dmitry Marunich, co-chairman of the Energy Strategies Fund, on the air of the Cynics program on Radio Vesti. “Last winter we had a shortage of electricity, and if electricity had not been taken from Russia, then now...

Due to problems in the energy industry, Ukraine is again forced to cover the electricity deficit with supplies from Russia, writes Kommersant. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Currently, approximately 0,8 GW of power is steadily coming from the Russian Federation, while there is a continuing deficit in the Ukrainian energy system of about 2 GW,” the newspaper’s sources report. – Imports of up to 1 GW confirm and...

Ukraine has refused to import Russian electricity since May, but now actually hopes only for a warm winter in order to survive the heating season, the Kommersant newspaper writes. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte The refusal of imports, the publication believes, could have been helped by the summer, when electricity consumption began to fall and coal supplies to Ukraine from the territories of the DPR and LPR began. Kommersant source, familiar...

Kyiv, December 22 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – Kyiv sparkles with advertising lights in the evenings, and residents of surrounding villages sit for 7-8 hours without electricity. Deputy Oleg Lyashko stated this at a meeting of the conciliation council in the Verkhovna Rada. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Why is everything on fire in Kyiv? The advertisement is lit! If there is a crisis, then for everyone. In the villages...

Kyiv, December 05 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) – The former commander of the Ukrainian Belbek airfield, Yuliy Mamchur, elected as a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, proposed not to worry about the availability of electricity in Crimea, but in conditions of its shortage, first of all to provide light to Ukrainian facilities on the mainland. A representative of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc stated this on air on the 112 TV channel. Subscribe to the PolitNavigator news...

Kyiv, December 02 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) – The decision to purchase ready-made electricity from Russia instead of coal for Ukrainian thermal power plants is criminal and anti-state. Former Energy Minister Sergei Ermilov stated this in a commentary to the Ukrainian newspaper Den. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte According to him, this will lead to the shutdown of ten power units at...

Dmitry Marunich, energy market expert, Kyiv The beginning of winter demonstrated the vulnerabilities of the Ukrainian energy sector when managed by representatives of the “new team”. For the first time in many years, consumers were at risk of rolling blackouts. And the relatively early winter threatens to empty underground gas storage facilities even before the end of February 2015. Deprived of coal supplies from the Donbass mines, the Ukrainian energy system is experiencing a shortage of electricity...

Kyiv, November 13 (Navigator, Vladimir Mikhailov) – Even in the “turbulent” 1990s, Ukraine entered winter with more reserves of energy resources before the winter cold. This was admitted by ex-Minister of Energy Ivan Plachkov at a press conference in Kyiv. Subscribe to the PolitNavigator - Kyiv news on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Ukraine has never entered winter with such coal reserves - 1389 thousand tons. Minimum –...