DTEK energy holding will send official notifications to 32 companies warning them of not buying coal made by the group’s divisions located on the temporarily uncontrolled territory, DTEK CEO Maksym Timchenko has said.
“We have a list of 32 companies which potentially could buy this coal. We will send this letter to each company. Today a separate unit has been created in the company where lawyers play first fiddle. We warned from the beginning that we will protect our property and our products using all available legal ways,” he said.
He said that in 2016, Sverdlovanthracite, Rovenkyanthracite and Komsomolets Donbasu planned to extract 12.8 million tons of coal. Consumption of Starobesheve thermal power plant (TPP) of Donbasenergo in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone is around 2.2 million tons.
Taking into account that sulfur content in anthracite extracted in Donbass does not meet the requirements of foreign markets, and Russia has a large surplus in production of anthracite, Ukrainian companies are potential buyers of around 10 million tons of coal.
“Average sulfur content in Ukrainian anthracite is 1.7% and in hard ash coal 2.6%. The requirement for exports is 0.9% and lower. This coal may not be exported,” Timchenko said.
DTEK would warn Novocherkask TPP under control of Russia’s Gazprom that it is unlawful to buy coal from the company’s divisions on the temporarily uncontrolled territory, while TPP every year consumes around 3 million tons of anthracite and Russia annually produces around 12 million tons of this coal. (Interfax-Ukraine/Ukrainian metal)
