The Industry Ministry announced that 22 companies in the metals and mining sector qualified for the 10% discount on electricity tariffs for big consumers, which takes effect on September 1. They are: iron ore producers Pivdenny, Tsentralny, Pivnichny, Ingulets and Poltava; steel makers Mittal Steel Krivy Rih, Dniprovsky Dzerzhinsk, Makiyivka, Yenakievo, Azovstal, Mariupol Illicha, Donetskstal, Istil, Zaporizhstal, Dniprospetsstal and Alchevsk; ferroalloy makers Nikopol, Stakhanov and Zaporizhya; plus Zaporizhya Aluminum, Ukrpromvodchermet and Pobuzhsky Ferronickel.