Minister of Energy of the DPR: the wear of equipment in the mines in the region reaches 85%
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Wear and tear of equipment in coal mines in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) reaches 85%, Andrey Chertkov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic, Minister of Coal and Energy, told Rossiya 24.
“All the equipment in the mines is 80-85% worn out, it needs to be changed,” he said (quote according to RIA Novosti).
According to him, investors will have to purchase new equipment and reconstruct the mines themselves, work to ensure safety. The minister added that these are the main tasks “for the next three years.”
In October 2023 Chertkov informed According to Vedomosti, coal production at DPR state-owned enterprises under “normal conditions” could amount to about 6.5 million tons per year and grow to 8.3 million tons per year over the next three years. In 2023, according to Chertkov, it is planned to produce 3.5 million tons of fuel at enterprises that are part of the coal management sphere of the DPR, which is 22% more than in 2021, and taking into account private mines and artels, about 7 million But in 2022, the production of enterprises of the ministry, according to the forecast, will decrease by 36% to 2.87 million tons. Chertkov explained that it was originally planned to produce 5.6 million tons of coal in 2022, but due to the general mobilization, which was announced in the DPR on February 19, the plan for state-owned enterprises was halved.
The required amount of investment in the coal industry of the DPR in the next three years should be 10-12 billion rubles, of which about 7 billion rubles. – private investment in case of privatization of mines.
As of October 2022, coal mining in the region is represented by 14 state mines and 60 private mines, as well as 133 small coal mining enterprises (artels). The shares of state and private enterprises in the total volume of production are approximately equal. The largest state-owned enterprises are the mines Komsomolets Donbassa, Progress (GUP DPR Torezantratsit), Kholodnaya Balka (GUP DPR Makeevugol), private mines Zhdanovskaya, Gornyak-95, Chaikino (LLC “Coal”).
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