Ukraine's National Energy and Utilities Regulation Commission (NEURC) will decide at a January 9 meeting on the allocation of UAH 2 billion for power generating companies of thermal power plants (TPPs), as reported by the investigative journalism portal Nashi Hroshi (literally "Our Money").
Two coal ships have arrived from the United States in the Yuzhny sea trading port (Odesa region) for DTEK energy holding and PJSC Centrenergo.
The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) plans in February 2018 to once again try to sell 99.6% of the shares of Odesa Portside Chemical Plant (OPP), and in June - the state-owned stake (78.3%) in the state power generating company Centrenergo.
The price of the first shipment of the U.S thermal coal, supplied by Xcoal Energy&Resources to Ukraine's major power generating company PJSC Centrenergo, is $100.7 per tonne (CIF), according to Liga.net, referring to a Centrenergo representative.
A second batch of 60,000 tonnes of coal from the United States was on October 12 delivered by the Victoria vessel to the state-run Yuzhny ("Southern") Sea Commercial Port in Odesa region for one of Ukraine's major power generating companies PJSC Centrenergo, according to the port's press service.
The first vessel carrying 62 tonnes of steam coal, which last week sailed off from Baltimore, should arrive in Ukraine before mid-September, Ukrainian ambassador to the United States Valery Chaly told Dzerkalo Tyzhnia weekly.
The first shipment of anthracite coal from the United States, supplied by XCoal Energy and Resources, totaling 85,000 tonnes should arrive in Ukraine in early September, the embassy of Ukraine in the United States wrote on Facebook.
The cost of anthracite coal, which will be supplied from the United States to Ukraine's Trypilska TPP owned by the state power generating company Centerenergo, will not affect electricity tariffs for the households, Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Minister for European Integration Natalia Boiko told one of the national TV channels.
The company concluded with the U.S.-based Xcoal Energy&Resources a contract for the supply of 700,000 tonnes of anthracite coal by year-end, Centrenergo CEO Oleh Kozemko said during the contract’s presentation at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv on Monday.
Carrying out privatization of the Odesa Portside Chemical Plant (OPP) is possible at the end of 2017, while the sale of a controlling stake in Ukraine's major power generating company PJSC Centrenergo may take place in the middle of 2018, the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) wrote on Facebook citing Deputy Head of the Fund Yuriy Nikitin.
Ukraine's major power generating company PJSC Centrenergo plans to hold talks next week on the purchase in the United States of deficit anthracite coal for its thermal power plants (TPPs), the company's CEO Oleh Kozemko said ahead of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's visit to Trypilska TPP, according to an UNIAN correspondent.