Ukraine goes from gas to coal and from coal will make gas

In 2013 Ukraine will start building of four factories for the production of synthetic gas from coal. This was stated by the President of Ukraine during the meeting with government officials and production asset of Zaporozhye region.

As UNIAN correspondent said, the President stated "This year we will start the construction of four plants producing synthetic gas from coal, and we will increase the production of coal. Over the past three years, the volume of its production was increased by 15 million tons and we will increase production any longer".

As Yanukovych said, the construction of a plant producing synthetic gas – is one of the ways to increase the level of energy security of Ukraine and energy-saving features, which the government has to use due to the price of gas for Ukraine defined in 2009.

Yanukovych also said that now in order to save gas, the price of which is much higher than in Europe, Ukraine is systematically implementing energy saving technologies. In particular, today the country has refused completely to use gas for electricity generation and is modernizing in the steel industry, in particular, replacing the furnaces, working on gas with furnaces working on the coal-powder mixture.