This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry.

At the same time, anthracite coal reserves increased by 11% to 784 thousand. tons from 706 thousand. tons. The gas reserves of the gas brand increased by 0.8% to 1.076 million tons from 1.067 thousand tons. tons.

It is worth adding that our country in 2016 compared with 2015 increased coal consumption by 9.4% - up to 31.3 million tons.

Recall, as reported by the wound "URA-Inform", the main fighter against Rotterdam + called the Ukrainian coal "shit".

This characteristic of the products of Ukrainian miners was given by former member of the NKREC Andrey Gerus in Facebook. "Take your coal to Rotterdam and sell it at a high market price if it's shit someone will buy," wrote Gerus in response to the suggestion that against a background of a 30-60 percent increase in the price of products of major industrial electricity consumers, an increase in the tariff for generating companies by 16% is justified.