Coal stocks at the warehouses of the thermal power plants on March 6-9, increased by 2.1%, or by 36 thousand tons, to 1.734 million tons.
According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry as of early March 9, coal stocks of the anthracite group totaled 711.4 thousand tons, down by 4.7% as of March 6, of gas group – 1.023 million tons, up by 7.4%.
Almost half of anthracite (340 thousand tons) is stocked at Lugansk TPP. (Ukrainian metal)