At 0045 a.m. on September 1 Ukraine resumed commercial electricity supplies to Poland, the press secretary of the Ukrainian fuel and energy minister, Fent Di, has told Interfax-Ukraine.
“The capacity of supplies is 120 MW through the Dobrotvorska heat
power plant-Zamost 220 kV overhead transmission line,” he said.
He said that Ukraine exports electricity to Poland as a part of a
contract signed between Ukrinterenergo state company and Poland’s Zomar
S.A.
In late August Ukrinterenergo director general Valentyn Bondarenko
said that Ukrinterenergo from September 1, 2009 resumes commercial
electricity supplies to Zomar S.A., which were suspended in June 2009.
“Resumption of Ukrainian electricity exports to Poland has become
possible thanks to permanent work of Ukrinterenergo with the Polish
contractor on selecting a mutually beneficial option for supplies,
taking into account the growing prices of electricity on the Polish
market and the devaluation of the national currency,” he said.
Zomar in December 2008 rejected buying electricity from Ukraine due to a fall in demand and prices of electricity in Poland.
On June 1, 2009 Ukrinterenergo resumed electricity supplies to
Poland, but on June 12 the company had to suspend them due to changes
in a procedure for the formation of electricity price on the Ukrainian
wholesale electricity market.
Ukrinterenergo from June 2009 buys electricity on the wholesale
electricity market to export it on general basis at prices set every
hour on the market. Earlier, the state company bought electricity at
prices, which the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC)
approved for each foreign economic contract signed by Ukrinterenergo.
