PJSC “Centrenergo” plans to import coal to pass the fall-winter period of 2023/2024, General Director Andriy Churkin said.
“Completely on our own coal we will not pass this winter. And in the near future, Centrenergo plans to sign contracts with foreign companies. There are already certain developments, I think that within a month there will be a result. We need to reach a volume of at least 80 thousand tons of coal per month,” he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
According to him, this would be a sufficient reserve, but the company is also preparing to work on gas and fuel oil.
“At Tripilska TPP, for example, there is an opportunity to work on fuel oil. We have already imported it, and I have already asked the technical directorate of the plant to make a trial run on this type of fuel,” Churkin said.
He specified that “the closest and most accessible for us is coal from Poland,” while the company buys fuel oil from PJSC Ukrnafta.
