Kyiv.Ukraine.Ukraine Gate – November 3,2021- Belarus resumed electricity supplies to Ukraine on November 2, referring to the website of the Ministry of Energy of Belarus.
“On November 2, at 14.00, Belarus began supplying electricity to the Ukrainian power system with a capacity of 500 megawatts under the emergency assistance agreement,” the report says.
It should be noted that deliveries are made at the request of the Ukrainian side.
“Long-term commercial contracts (other than those concluded previously) are out of the question in this case,” the report says.
As reported, SE NNEGC Energoatom plans to create a power reserve for the fall-winter period 2021/2022 and allow small amounts of electricity to be booked from Belarus
After auctioning access to interstate crossings (electricity imports/exports) on October 27, 2021, Energoatom purchased 885 megawatts of capacity from Belarus for the month of November.
Earlier, the Ministry of Energy stated that it is not studying the issue of commercial electricity imports from Russia and Belarus for the upcoming heating season.