KIEV, Sept. 13 – Ukraine is not planning by late 2007 to resume commercial supplies of its electricity to Russia due to the absence of surplus electricity on the domestic market, Andriy Turos, UkrInterEnergo deputy director for electricity exports, told the press in Kiev on Wednesday.

"Electricity to Russia by the end of the year will be supplied in minimum volumes, needed to cover technical overflows between power grids. These are not commercial supplies," he said.

Turos said that the main reason for the absence of a surplus of Ukrainian electricity is rapid growth in electricity consumption inside the country and not the non-scheduled repairs of NPPs' reactors.