The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry of Ukraine is preparing technical specifications to realize a project on the expansion of capacities to export electricity to Poland, Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Minister Serhiy Chekh told reporters in Kyiv on Tuesday.
“We’re at the stage of forming the technical specifications to draw
up a project with which we’ll assess the stability of Polish and
Ukrainian power grids after the installation of DC links,” he said.
Chekh said that if the technical specifications are agreed, the
ministry would start discussing a public private partnership for the
realization of the projects.
“DC links are a real possibility for increasing electricity exports…
Exports are one of the important conditions for the development of the
coal sector,” he said.
He said that DC links could be used in the Hungary direction (to
connect the existing 750 kV power line) on the Burshtyn Island and on
the 750 kV power line of the Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant-Rzeszow
(Poland).
“Thus, [thanks to the building of DC links on all these directions]
exports of electricity could be doubled. Today it is 10 billion kilowatt
hours,” Chekh said.
