OREANDA-NEWS. In 9 months of 2015, DTEK companies produced 21.4 million tonnes of coal (-25.6% YoY), supplied 28.1 bln kWh of electricity (-20.5%), transmitted 33.6 bln kWh (-16%) of electricity via networks, and produced 905.1 mcm of natural gas (+62.4%).

’The macroeconomic situation in Ukraine remains extremely difficult: the industrial production level is the lowest for the last several years and the economic situation always influences the energy sector’, said Maxim Timchenko, DTEK CEO, commenting on the company performance results for 9 months of 2015. ’Artificial underpayments through the tariffs and billions of debts of Energorynok SC put additional pressure on thermal generation. As the result, miners were forced to scale down the tunnelling. If negative tendency prevails, high volatile coal mining may significantly drop next year. DTEK, as before, makes every effort to ensure stable operation of the Unified Energy System of Ukraine. DTEK’s thermal power plants fired by high volatile coal operate at a higher load. Due to the joint efforts of railway personnel and DTEK on restoring the railway infrastructure destroyed during the military combat, the anthracite supplies from Donbass have grown in Quarter 3. We hope that the supplies will remain regular. This will ensure the availability of Ukrainian anthracite coal not only on DTEK’ thermal power plants but on TPPs of other generating companies.’