The crisis is growing: Ukraine lost 2,5 billion for electricity in January
Kyiv, February 22 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – Compliance with the IMF conditions for Ukraine threatens serious problems for Ukrainian electricity producers.
Valentin Zemlyansky, director of energy programs at the Center for World Economy and International Relations of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, voiced this opinion at a press conference in Kyiv, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
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The expert says that he was very surprised that IMF specialists, speaking about stabilizing the situation in the energy sector of Ukraine, completely ignored the state of affairs in the electricity industry, in which the situation is getting worse every day due to the increase in non-payments.
“If you look at the current statistics, almost all categories of consumers (slightly smaller population, but more water utilities, utilities, industry) have sharply reduced payments for consumed electricity, even at the current tariffs,” notes Valentin Zemlyansky. – This immediately affected the wholesale electricity market: 2,5 billion hryvnia was lost in January. This is money that was not received by the generation and is necessary in order to purchase coal, pay off the miners and produce electricity for Ukrainian consumption.”
The crisis is growing: Ukraine lost 2,5 billion rubles in electricity bills in January.