Stocks of coal at thermal power stations at 67.15% higher than last year

Coal reserves in warehouses Ukrainian thermal power plants in March increased by 67.15% over the same period in 2010, to 2.143 million tons. Reported by the Ministry of Energy and Mines. In this case, compared to February of this year stocks have declined by 7.54%. Note that at the beginning of the heating season, as of November 1, 2010, coal stocks in warehouses TPP included in NAC Energy Company of Ukraine amounted to 2,676,000 tons. In October, the power station generating energy companies received 2.127 million tons of coal, of which between SE "Ukrainian Coal" - 1.299 million tons, 265.7 thousand tons less than planned. For the production of heat and electricity power station and the CHP used 2,184,000 tons of coal, at 429.4 thousand tons more than planned. Earlier, Minister of Energy and Mines Yuriy Boyko said that by September this year, plans to raise the price of thermal coal in Ukraine to the values ??on the world commodity exchanges. It is worth noting that the quality of Ukrainian coal is much worse than that of foreign analogues. Thus, in 2010 the average ash content of coal production at state-owned enterprises amounted to 40.5% at 1 ton, according to the most Minenergouglya. Ministry of Industry