The former head of Naftogaz on the situation in the energy sector: “We will literally burn dollars”
If you take the paper dollars that Ukraine needs to pay to buy gas and physically throw them into the furnace of Ukrainian power plants, you will get approximately the same amount of energy as processing gas into electricity.
The former head of Naftogaz, Andriy Kobolev, stated this on Channel 5, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to Kobolev, switching power units to gas consumption will make the price of electricity “golden” for Ukraine.
“Today I read an interview with one head of a government agency who said: “Don’t worry, we will now launch gas units at Centrenergo.” I think that if you exchange these dollars that this gas costs, sell gas, get dollars and burn soft bills, there will be approximately the same effect. This will be golden electricity. But the only thing worse than golden electricity is its absence,” Kobolev said.
Former Naftogaz CEO on the energy sector: "We'll literally be burning dollars."