200 days of fighting on the energy front: electricity restored to more than 3.8 mln Ukrainian families

Thermal power generation12 September 2022

DTEK energy workers have been holding the energy front for 200 days now and doing everything possible to provide electricity to the residents of Ukraine. Since the beginning of a full-scale invasion on February 24, repair crews’ specialists managed to restore electricity to more than 3.8 mln. families in the city of Kyiv and in Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions. Despite shelling and difficult situation with hostilities, specialists of the DTEK Grids Distribution System Operators continue to repair grids with the permission of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and State Emergency Service. Our goal is to provide towns and villages with electricity, required for normal life of Ukrainians.

200 days of fighting on the energy front: electricity restored to more than 3.8 mln Ukrainian families

Since the beginning of a full-scale invasion, specialists of the DTEK Grids DSO have concentrated all their efforts on restoration of electricity to the residents after hostilities. Energy workers have repaired more than 3,000 power facilities, destroyed by the enemy, in 200 days. Over 2,000 employees are engaged in restoration of the grids’ operation, once it becomes possible and there is a permit from SES and AFU.

Thus, since February 24, they managed to restore electricity to more than 2.7 mln homes of residents of the Donetsk region. Yesterday (September 11) alone, they have restored operation of the company’s grids and restored electricity to more than 11,000 families, despite the active situation with hostilities. Yesterday energy workers have also promptly, in less than an hour, restored power to the region, lost due to enemy shelling of the high-voltage grids, owned by another power company.

Additionally, Dnipropetrovsk region is suffering from more and more active enemy attacks. Over the course of 200 days of resisting the russian aggression, energy workers have restored power to almost 206,000 residents of the region. In particular, targeted attacks on main power grids facilities, owned by another power company, on September 11 left over 68,000 households in 3 districts of the region without electricity. In less than an hour, DTEK Dnipro Grids has restored power supply to all customers for the time, needed for the owner of equipment to restore its grids.

Specialists of the DTEK Grids DSO have also restored electricity to 270,000 families in the city of Kyiv and almost 30,000 families in the Odesa region.

In May, in 45 days power was completely restored to 260,000 families in the Kyiv region immediately after its liberation from the occupants. Overall, restoration of grids in the Kyiv region to the pre-war level of power supply quality and reliability requires about 1 billion hryvnas. The company has already invested over 300 million hryvnas in restoration of electricity to residents of the Kyiv region. Restoration of the backup power supply will require another UAH 600-700 mln in perspective of 2022-2023. The company needs aid from government and international partners in attracting these funds in order to fully restore infrastructure of the grids and develop it according to the plan and needs of residents of the region.

Despite the difficult situation in the country, energy workers have currently resumed works to improve reliability of power supply during the autumn-winter period in Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk regions and the city of Kyiv. In order to prepare for the heating season, energy workers of DTEK Grids DSO will upgrade over 2,000 km of power lines and inspect the grids that power more than 300 critical infrastructure facilities – boiler rooms, schools, kindergartens and medical institutions. We use all financial and technical resources that the company owes to the stimulating RAB regulation to prepare for the difficult 2022-2023 autumn-winter period.