Electricity imports from Belarus will stop our nuclear power plants and thermal power plants – expert
KIEV. August 3. UNN. Electricity imports from Belarus will negatively affect the energy sector of Ukraine, because it will lead to a stop of work of nuclear power plants and thermal power plants. This opinion in comments to UNN was expressed by the expert of the energy sector Yuri Korolchuk.
“We have surplus capacity, we can produce electricity for their needs sufficiently, and the import of electricity has a negative impact overall on the grid, as you have to stop the operation of NPP and TPP. Rise to financial failures, very few earn fossil and nuclear power plants,” – said Korolchuk.
In addition, according to experts, imports will affect miners, because the work of TES is directly connected with the mines, so they also suspend their work.
We will remind, the head of the Energy Committee of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Gerus lobbying for the continuation of the import to Ukraine of electric power from Belarus and Russia. Act against the energy Ministry and the Cabinet. They explain that in Ukraine the surplus production of their own elektroenergii, therefore, import excess electricity will hit domestic generation.
Earlier UNN reported that the import of electricity from Russia and Belarus became possible in the autumn of 2019 – after parliamentary approval of the necessary regulatory changes. The press dubbed them “corrections Gems”, which was the initiator. The vote in the Parliament was on the 18th of September, and from October 1, the Russian power began to import the company “United energy” associated with Igor Kolomoisky.
At the time of the import quarantine has been suspended. Now in VR the question of the prohibition or recovery of import.