(MENAFN- UkrinForm) As of January 31, 2022, coal reserves in the warehouses of Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPPs) amount to 657,200 tonnes, which is 7.9% below the level recorded on January 24.
That's according to NEC Ukrenergo , Ukrinform reports.
'As of the morning of January 31, the total coal reserves in the warehouses of thermal power plants stand at 657,200 tonnes, including 599,200 tonnes of gas-grade coal and 58,000 tonnes of anthracite,' the statement reads.
As of January 24, there were 713,500 tonnes of coal in the TPP warehouses.
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It is also noted that on January 31, one TPP unit with a total capacity of 0.3 GW was in emergency repair, while on the morning of January 24 - it was a power unit and a TPP facility with a total capacity of 0.55 GW. In addition, due to lack of fuel, 20 units and a facility (TPP and CHPP) with a total capacity of 4.8 GW were down (as of the morning of January 24, it was 16 units and one facility with a total capacity of 4.1 GW).
On January 24-30, thermal power plants generated 892.3 million kWh of electricity, which is 21.7% more than in the previous week. The share of TPPs in load coverage stood at 24%.
As reported earlier, 6 million tonnes of coal will arrive in Ukraine in the first quarter, while some 5.5 million tonnes are expected to be burned over the same period.
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