KYIV, Sept. 15 - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has decided to keep its key policy rate at 12.5% per annum, the NBU said in a press release.

KIEV, Sept. 15 – The State Railway Administration of Ukraine (Ukrzaliznytsia) plans to issue bonds worth some UAH 4 billion by the end of this year, First Deputy Director General of Ukrzaliznytsia Maksym Blank said.

KIEV, Sept. 17 - Coal stocks at Ukraine's thermal power plants and combined heat power plants decreased by 31.2% or 968,500 tons in August and as of September 1 totaled 2.138 million tons, a source in the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) is to invest over $70 million in building a pulverized coal injection complex (PCI) for the largest furnace in Europe – blast furnace nine, which will allow removing consumption of natural gas during the production of cast iron, and cut coke consumption.

KIEV, Sept. 18 - Ukraine's industrial output plummeted 21.4 percent year-on-year in August, the national statistics office said on Thursday, reflecting the impact of the separatist war in the industrial east of the country.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – The volumes of the required additional capitalization of the 15 largest banks in Ukraine are realistic, First Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Oleksandr Pysaruk said.

KIEV, Sept. 18 – The price of coal imported from South Africa for the needs of state-run power generating company Centrenergo is $91 per ton at the Ukrainian port, while the price of Russian coal is $80 per ton, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said.

KIEV, Sept. 16 - Electricity generated by the integrated power grids in Ukraine January through August fell by 3.2%, or by 4.236 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) year-over-year, to 127.114 billion kWh, a source at the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 16 - Ukraine raised electricity exports 8.4% year-on-year in January-August to 6.68 billion kilowatt-hours, a source at the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 18 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry plans to borrow UAH 1.5 billion from state bank Oschadbank to complete the first phase of Dnistrovska hydroelectric pumped storage power plant, reads a report of the ministry in the Visnyk Derzhavnykh Zakupivel bulletin.