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Ukrposhta, the state-owned postal service, reports a net profit of UAH184.5mn ($7mn) for 2020, CEO Igor Smelyanskiy said on his Facebook page. This sets a new post-Maidan record for the iconic national company.
Ukrposhta, the national postal operator, starts in March a partnership with OLX, one of Ukraine’s largest online market places. Last year, Dutch-domiciled OLX nearly doubled its deliveries in Ukraine, to 300,000 a month. Ukrposhta now guarantees 3-day delivery of OLX packages to anywhere in Ukraine. Ihor Smelyansky, director general of Ukrposhta says: "We are opening access to an audience of 10mn Ukrainians in the most remote corners of the country."
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Power regulator penalizes DTEK, threatens sharing data with other state bodies.
The National Energy Regulation Commission penalized three power generating companies controlled by DTEK Energy (DTEKUA) for total UAH 5.1 mln, the regulator reported on March 10.
The three penalized companies operate all eight thermal power plants of DTEK Energy. The penalty, which was a result of inspections of the power plants, was levied for their breach of license conditions, namely by their failure to maintain coal stockpiles above the required minimum level. According to the commission’s press-release, such breaches have put under risk the stability of Ukraine’s energy system.
The regulator also warned that the results of inspections of power plants will be filed to the Antimonopoly Committee, the Energy Ministry and even to the Defense and Security Council of Ukraine. On top of that, the regulator is going to initiate legislative changes to increase penalties for similar breaches, stating that it has imposed the maximum possible penalties in this case.
Commenting on the issue, DTEK Energy stated that its coal stockpiles at the start of heating season were in line with the electricity production plan for the season, approved by the state last autumn.
The company met the unusual demand for its power since November, which forced its power plants to burn 1 mmt of coal in excess of the plan in November-December 2020. It was impossible to replenish such extra burn of stockpiles quickly, the company stated. In its turn, DTEK Energy also promised to ask the Antimonopoly Committee and the Defense and Security Council to assess the poor performance of the energy sector regulator that allegedly led to the risk of the energy system’s collapse.
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