Ukraine will have stable enough imports of coal and electricity to welcome the New Year with well-lit festive trees in homes and illuminations on the streets, national energy authorities said Wednesday.
“All Ukrainians will be able to greet the New Year with light. There will be no outages in the near future,” Volodymyr Demchyshyn said at a news conference, striking an upbeat note after a year of war and upheaval in the former Soviet republic.
The state energy firm Ukrenergo has been carrying out phased power cuts because of a lack of coal for its thermal power plants caused by the separatist …read more
Source: Voice of America
