Strategy of coal industry development in Ukraine

Positioning of Ukraine on the world power markets can be assessed by means of the following factors. Negative factors are: scantiness of own gas, oil, and nuclear resources; lack of diversification of power product supply sources; the use of overwhelming share of capacities of own water resources; great technogene load as for environment; disappointing technical situation with a part of objects to transport power products. Strategy of coal industry progress in Ukraine is oriented to the increase of volumes of effective and harmless use of coal by power industry taking into consideration investment attractiveness of projects. Realization of the strategy will need to increase production capacities to develop new deposits at the expense of construction of new mines and reconstruction of running ones.