DTEK Dnipro Grids improved power supply to almost 300,000 Dnipro residents

Thermal power generation16 November 2020

DTEK Dnipro Grids have a focus on two key areas, improving the voltage quality and reducing power outages due to accidents. To this extent, engineers have performed overhaul and maintenance of 32 transformer substations, replaced 14 km of medium and low voltage overhead lines. The company has started construction of a new substation in the Igren residential area with the subsequent transfer of existing customers to new networks.

DTEK takes care of its customers; therefore, they approach the issue of reliable power supply in its entirety. The company has earmarked $128mln worth of investment into Dnipro energy this year.

“We are working hard to consistently reconstruct the power grids, upgrade the equipment of transformer substations and distribution points. We are doing the same job in Samarsky, Novokodatsky, AND and other districts of the city this year,” - says Andrii Tereshchuk, DTEK Dnipro Grids CEO. – “So, since the beginning of the year, we have improved energy supply for almost 300,000 residents of Dnipro. We have also ensured that 11 kindergartens, 17 schools, 5 hospitals and a medical school have reliable power supply."

Further equipping of the new substation named Naddnipryanska is among the large projects that have already been implemented to ensure greater network stability, taking into account the power supply of new facilities and metro stations in the city center. As well as the construction of a new line to power the extended trolleybus line leading to the remote massifs of Sokol-2 and Pridniprovsky.

The company's specialists have replaced the transformer substations equipment to ensure reliable power supply to Pridniprovsky, Livoberezhny-2, Diivka and Chapli residential areas. In particular, the power engineers installed six new substations, which will provide high-quality power supply to about 80 thousand residents of the Samarsky and Novokodatsky Districts. The company have repaired and upgraded the cable lines powering apartment buildings from transformer substations in the Soborny and Central Districts of the Dnipro city.

They also replaced 14 kilometers of overhead lines, providing more reliable power supply to residents of Svoboda Avenue on the Left Bank, as well as Chaplinskaya, Marshal Grechko, Polevoy, Minusinskaya and other streets of the Samarsky and AND Districts of the city. In addition, the defective poles were replaced, and 49 new ones were installed instead.

DTEK also bought a new special vehicle to help repair and emergency crews to reach accidents scenes as quickly as possible, and carry out routine repairs. Thus, the car fleet was replenished with four new car lifts and one electric car.

By the end of 2020, DTEK Dnipro Grids plan to overhaul equipment and maintain 32 more transformer substations, 12 underground cable lines in all districts of Dnipro.