Closure of power stations will remove emissions equivalent to 1.3 million cars.
Over the past ten years, coal electricity production has only increased.
The development has already been tested by employees of Ternovska and Prydniprovska TPPs’ mines.
The decision is due to extreme climatic conditions.
Over 10 months of 2019 thermal coal production in Ukraine decreased by 9.9%.
Stocks of thermal coal in the warehouses of generating enterprises increased 2.2 times in two months.
The total volumes of coal imports in the world in 2018 are estimated at 1.424 million tons. This is by 3.6% more than in 2017.
Since the end of the previous heating season, coal reserves in the warehouses of Ukrainian TPPs and CHPPs decreased by 31.5% – to 1 million 203 thousand tons