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Expected to arrive this month, four shiploads are for DTEK and one is for Centrenergo. For comparison, coal stocks at power plants have dwindled to 403,000 tons, Ukrenergo reports. Centrenergo, the state producer, says it will try to switch to gas. Kazakhstan, traditionally a source of coal for Ukraine, says its rail cars are largely booked for China.
On November 1, Russia stopped exporting anthracite coal to Ukraine. Last month, Russia supplied 80% of the $43 million worth of power plant coal imported by Ukraine, according to the State Customs Service. As Ukraine’s coal shortage loomed, imports from Russia in October increased 30% over September
Through 8 pm on November 2, Ukraine made emergency electricity imports of 3,500 MWh from Belarus and 800 MWh from Slovakia, Ukrenergo reports. The imports were made because of an almost complete shutdown of state-owned thermal power plants due to low coal stocks, repairs at DTEK’s power plants, and a dip in renewable production, the state electricity company reports. No consumers – residential or industrial -- were short of power, Ukrenergo maintains. The emergency imports from Belarus came three days after Andriy Gerus, head of the Rada Energy Committee, said there would not be imports from Belarus and Russia. But yesterday, Prime Minister Shmygal noted that Ukraine’s electricity import ban expired on Monday, adding: “physically and legally there is a possibility to import electricity from the Republic of Belarus in Ukraine.”
Poland, Kazakhstan, and South Africa are to supply Ukraine a total of 200,000 tons of coal in November. Negotiations are underway with US suppliers. At the same time, domestic monthly production is to increase by 27% to 1.4 million tons, says Yuriy Vlasenko, first deputy minister of Energy. The Washington Examiner, a conservative new site, posted a story headlined: “Provoking energy crisis and playing Biden, Russia suspends thermal coal exports to Ukraine.”
Electricity exports increased 3.1 times in the last week of October. Total electricity exports last week amounted to 61.7mn kWh, 3.1 times more than in the previous week, Ukrenergo has reported. It is noted that the average daily exports from the "island of Burshtyn TPP" last week compared to October 18-24 increased 3.4 times to 61.4mn kWh, and from the Unified Energy System (UES) of Ukraine decreased by 4,3 times, up to 0.3mn kWh. At the same time, exports to Moldova last week decreased by 4 times compared to the previous week and to Poland was absent. Exports to Slovakia increased the most 10.7 times. Electricity was not imported from any country during the period October 18-24, 2021.
There will be no electricity imports from Russia and Belarus from November 1. On October 20, Inter RAO announced an auction for the sale of electricity, but on October 21, the relevant auction was canceled, and the relevant auctions were not held in Belarus.
The NBU forecasts an increase in electricity prices by 25% per year. The National Bank forecasts that electricity tariffs will be brought to an economically reasonable level, which will lead to their growth by 20-25%.
Coal stocks at coal-fired electricity generating plants have dwindled to 21%
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