Slovakia's SEPS intends to halt emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine - media
MOSCOW. March 4 (Interfax) - Slovakia's transmission system operator SEPS CEO Martin Magath has said his company intends to terminate a contract for emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine, Ukrainian media reported on Wednesday, citing the Slovak publication Dennik N.
"The state-owned electricity company will terminate the contract for emergency electricity supplies with Ukraine's Ukrenergo. Director of the state-owned company Martin Magath made this statement after a government meeting," the Slovak publication said.
Ukraine last received emergency supplies in January, Magath said.
However, there is no information on this matter on the Slovak operator's website.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico asked the government to terminate the contract, and the Slovak government approved the move on Wednesday, Dennik N reported.
As reported, Fico said February 23 he would keep his promise to halt emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine if Kiev did not resume oil transit from Russia via the Druzhba pipeline.
"I have fulfilled what I declared on Saturday: 'If oil supplies to Slovakia are not restored by Monday, I will ask SEPS, the state-owned joint-stock company, to halt emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine,'" he wrote on social media.
Ukraine's transmission system operator Ukrenergo, at whose request SEPS is required to provide emergency assistance in line with inter-operator agreements, is resorting to attracting emergency assistance from other countries as one of the tools for balancing the energy system when domestic generation resources are exhausted.
Since January 3, 2026, the capacity limit for electricity imports from EU countries to Ukraine and Moldova has been 2.45 GW, a record level for the entire period of Ukraine's synchronization with the continental European ENTSO-E grid. Considering that some of the imported capacity is directed to Moldova, approximately 2.1 GW of commercial import capacity is available for Ukraine.
