Due
to extremely high temperatures and increased power consumption by 25% in the
last days the thermal power plants are using
autumn-winter peak load, consuming daily more than 100 tons of coal – the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Andriy Klyuev said during the extended telephone conference with the heads of regional state administrations, Kyiv and
Sevastopol state administrations and the Council of Ministers of Crimea.
Andrei Klyuyev
noted that in some regions that suffer most from heat, electricity consumption
exceeded the peak winter season, Cabinet's press office reported.
According to him,
it slows down the pace of accumulation of
coal by power stations in warehouses to cover its
deficit in winter and it
requires the immediate decision. At the meeting he
requested the leadership of Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Coal Industry and energy supplying companies to take all necessary
measures to ensure reliable provision of electricity,
coal and natural gas for
population and economy industries, both now and in the autumn-winter period.
He also instructed to carefully review the work
schedules and routine repairs at nuclear and heat power station.
The First Vice Prime Minister recalled that with the
purpose of timely preparation of fuel and energy complex for the autumn-winter 2010-2011, the
Government had instructed central and local executive authorities to hold the appropriate work. But
still not all
government tasks are performed in full volume, Andriy Klyuyev said. According
to him the following are behind the terms:
integrated preparation of houses - Lugansk (50.1%), Cherkassy (51.2%), Chernivtsi (51.3%)
Kherson (52.5%) regions (average in Ukraine - 62,1%);
preparation of schools -
Sevastopol (54.5%), Volyn (40.3%), Poltava (41.9%),
Lugansk (50.1%) and Ternopil (56.6%) regions (average in Ukraine - 69.2%);
preparation of boilers - Kherson (48.5%),
Cherkassy (51.2%), Luhansk (60%), Poltava (55.3%), Sumy (58.9%), Ternopil (58%)
region (average in Ukraine - 67.1%);
the replacement
of heating networks - the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
(50.9%), Transcarpathian (53.3%), Zaporizhzhya (51.6%), Lugansk (51.6%),
Poltava (53.5%), Kherson (44, 8%), Cherkassy (55%) and Kyiv Oblast (47.2%) (average in Ukraine - 62,1%).
Andriy Klyuev
criticized the level of preparation for winter in Cherkasy region and asked its authorites to put this
area under special control. He also instructed a number of
ministries and departments to send their
representatives in several regions, in particular to Poltava and Kherson to
help to accelerate the preparations for the
heating season.
The First Vice Prime Minister said that requires all heads of central executive bodies, local
authorities under the sole responsibility to strengthen the oversight of debt used for consumption of natural gas
and electricity and to ensure hundred percent payment for them. "Before
the heating season we
should get rid of depts for gas," Andriy Klyuyev said and reminded about the need to pay on time for the imported fuel.
