Ukrainian minister sees no reason to suspend electricity supply to Crimea
Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said he did not think it would make sense to suspend electricity supplies from mainland Ukraine to Crimea.
"I don't think it would probably be right at all to suspend electricity supplies [to Crimea]," he told reporters in Kyiv.
Demchyshyn said such a decision as possible "only at the highest political level."
He also confirmed that the price for Ukrainian electricity to be supplied to Crimea had been raised to 3.95 rubles per kilowatt-hour. Demchyshyn said on September 28 that Ukraine wanted to raise the price of electricity supplied to Crimea by 15.5% in rubles, from 3.42 rubles per 1 kWh to 3.95 rubles per kWh.
Demchyshyn also said on Tuesday that he thought the contract to supply Russian electricity to Ukraine should be extended into 2016 as this electricity might be needed to Georgia through peak periods.
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