DTEK reports fighters shot up power plant, plans to import coal

Обзоры по компаниям и отраслям 18.09.2014 The Luhansk Power Plant, which belongs to energy holding DTEK (DTEKUA), was targeted by artillery shooting on Sept. 17, the company reported the same day. As a result, one of the company’s transformers was damaged, disconnecting the station from power grid. The station was the only source of power supply to the northern part of the Luhansk region, which is now disconnected from any power, according to DTEK. Workers are currently trying to reconnect the power plant, DTEK reported on the morning of Sept. 18, adding that the work can be done in couple of hours providing no other damage was done to the station. In other news, DTEK’s commercial director estimated the monthly coal deficit for Ukraine for the upcoming heating season (staring mid-October) at 1 mmt, and revealed plans to import 0.5 mmt of coal in September. Meanwhile, coal stockpiles at all Ukrainian power plants decreased by 139 kt in the first half of September to 2.0 mmt as of Sept. 15, Ukrenergo reported. Alexander Paraschiy: The damage comes as no surprise as the power plant is located in the current frontline of warfare in the Donbas region. Earlier, DTEK reported damage to the plant’s railway infrastructure that complicated coal supplies to the station. The Luhansk Power Plant accounted for 9.6% of DTEK’s total electricity production in 2013, while another DTEK asset in the war zone, the Zuyiv Thermal Power Plant, contributed 12.3% to DTEK’s 2013 electricity generation.