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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (50454)	9/5/1999 9:06:00 PM
From: Think4Yourself	Respond to of 95453

It looks VERY bad for Russia this winter... Winter power cuts loom in Russia as fuel shortage hits power stations BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Economic Text of report in English by Russian news agency RIA Moscow, 1st September: Restriction of electricity supply to consumers will be inevitable this winter because of the shortage of fuel at power plants, general director of the central control department of Unified Energy System of Russia (UES) Fedor Morozov said at a press conference on 31st August. He noted that in the situation obtaining it is better to go through failures of electricity supply in September than to remain without heat and light in December-February. According to Morozov, as of 20th August the reserves of furnace fuel oil at power plants stood at 2.1m tonnes and of coal at 14.9m tonnes, the target figures for this period being 2.85m tonnes and 16.6m tonnes, respectively. It is expected that as of 1st October the reserves of coal will not exceed 18m tonnes and of furnace fuel oil 2.2m tonnes, instead of the planned 21.8m and 3.5m tonnes, respectively. The head of the UES central control department holds the view that such a situation with the accumulation of fuel at power plants is caused not only by UES's financial problems but also by the thwarted deliveries of fuel oil by oil companies in summer and by the introduction by Gazprom of restrictions on gas deliveries in connection with the accumulation of 4bn cubic metres of gas in underground storages for the winter period. Besides that, as a result of the growth of consumption of electricity by 7.6 per cent, the shortage of fuel at power plants and the nonpayments for electricity in "live money" alone, today UES cannot supply the whole country with heat and electricity in full and uninterruptedly. Morozov noted that the best situation is now observed in Siberia, the situation in the Far East is difficult and it is worst in the European part of the country.