Ukraine to privatize 4 gas-fired power stations

Ukraine’s State Property Fund started to prepare for the sale of 93%-94% stakes in four combined heating and power stations: Kharkiv-5 CHPP (540 MW of electric capacity), Kherson CHPP (80 MW), Odesa CHPP (68 MW) and Dniprodzerzhynsk CHPP (61 MW).

Alexander Paraschiy: Among the objects put up for sale, the only one for which there might be real demand is Kharkiv-5 CHPP – all the other objects are too small and too old (commissioned more than 50 years ago). We believe the main candidates for purchasing the Kharkiv asset are companies that have their own fuel sources: Gazprom (GAZP RX) – a natural candidate for gas-fired power stations, and DTEK (DTEKUA) – the owner of large coal reserves, which could potentially reconstruct the station to burn coal.