As previously informed, on 9th of April 2013, the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Boyko officially visited the SSE “Chernobyl NPP” site. Based on the results of official visit and progress review of the Chernobyl NPP Units Decommissioning and the Shelter Transformation into Ecologically Safe System projects, and to improve efficiency of using available infrastructure of Chernobyl NPP for energy industry of Ukraine, on April 12, the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Boyko gave appropriate instructions:
- The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, the State Agency for Exclusion Zone Management, the State Nuclear Regulation Inspectorate, the Kyiv Regional State Administration, and SE NAEC “EnergoAtom”, by 1st of May 2013, are entrusted to create an inter-agency working group chaired by the Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Dmytro Mormul to work out a strategy of further development of Chernobyl site taking into account solving of Ukrainian Nuclear Industry issues on centralized management of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste;
- The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry and the State Agency for Exclusion Zone Management, by 1st of August 2013, are entrusted to hand over electricity generation facility “Outdoor Switchgear (OSG) 110/330/750 kW” from the balance sheet of SSE “Chernobyl NPP” to the balance sheet of SE NEC “UkrEnergo”.
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The OSG-110/330/750 kW was designed to output to the energy system the electric power generated by operating power units of ChNPP, and provide transit of electric power using transmission and cross-border networks, provide electric power to the plant’s units, auxiliary facilities and other consuming facilities of the region adjacent to ChNPP area.
Since Units shutdown, the OSG-110/330/750 kW is still functioning practically to the full extent ensuring connection between separate energy systems of the unified energy system of Ukraine, and power delivery to it from KhNPP Units. Moreover, using OSG-330/750 kW, the electric power supplies are exported to the Republic of Belarus, the electric power is delivered from transmission networks to CJSC “AES KyivOblEnergo” networks and supplied for SSE ChNPP needs.