Yatseniuk instructs to study use of funds to buy coal earlier intended to buy transformers by Ukrenergo
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has instructed that profile ministries discuss the issue of redistributing the funds earlier accumulated by national energy company Ukrenergo to buy transformers to buy coal, a former member of Ukraine's National Commission for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation Andriy Herus wrote on his Facebook page.
"Yesterday the prime minister ordered that the possibility of redistributing the funds accumulated by Ukrenergo [over UAH 1 billion] to buy coal is discussed. TPPs [thermal power plants] have coal enough to work for 20-30 days, supplies from Russia and the ATO [Anti-Terrorist Operation] zone are fully halted," he said.
Acting Director General of Ukrenergo Vsevolod Kovalchuk confirmed this information.
"The issue raised by the prime minister will be discussed by the ministries and the energy commission until December 8. The tender procedure [to open bids in the tender to buy transformers] will take place, and then we will see," he wrote on his Facebook page.
