US Energy Secretary Rick Perry comes to Kyiv this week to push for more Ukrainian purchases of American coal

US Energy Secretary Rick Perry comes to Kyiv this week to push for more Ukrainian purchases of American coal. He will visit Centrenergro’s Trypilska thermal power plant, located 45 km south of Kyiv. Last year, Centrenergo bought 700,000 tons of US coal to power Trypilska, Kyiv region’s largest power plant. US coal is more expensive than Russian coal, but Perry argues that Russia is an unreliable supplier to Ukraine. US coal consumption has hit a 35-year low as power plants switch to natural gas.