purposes, now this is a serious contribution to energy security and significant gas savings . ask olga kozlovichecretary of the ministry of energy of belarus hello olga good afternoon. the first power unit, as we all know of our nuclear power plant , was put into operation on june 21 from that moment. how much energy has already been generated and what is the economic effect of this? well, it must be said in general that since the first unit was turned on , the unified energy system, and this was november 3, 2020, generated 12.8 billion hours of electricity. this allowed us to replace more than 3 billion cubic meters of imported natural gas with the commissioning of the second power unit , the volume of electricity production will increase to 18.5. true, in kilowatt hours of electricity, this will give us the opportunity to replace about 40% of domestic needs in it and replace somewhere around 4.5 billion m³ of gas annually, respectively, our country will take a significant step in strengthening energy security, will be able to reduce dependence on hydrocarbon raw materials and on the other hand