DTEK Donetsk Grids returned power to residents of 7 frontline settlements that lost power after hostilities

15 settlements of the Pokrovsky district, which number about 5,000 people, lost their power on August 11 because of damage to the 35 kV line caused by hostilities. DTEK Donetsk Grids was in the position to quickly restore power supply in 9 of them. To do the work in 6 more settlements, it was needed to get additional approvals from the JCCC (Joint Center for Control and Coordination on Ceasefire Issues), since it is the gray zone.

“Having received the necessary approvals, our energy workers were able to continue restoration of power supply to 6 more villages, namely Taramchuk, Berezovoye, Stepnoye, Sladkoye, Slavnoye, and Novomikhaylovka. We restored the operation of 44 transformer substations, recovered three damages in two spans of the 35 kV power transmission line, and replaced insulators. This made it possible to return power to 1,768 households,” says Oleksiy Degtyarev, General Director at DTEK Donetsk Grids.

Also, the company repaired damaged wires, replaced 13 insulators of the 10 kV line, installed a new power transformer in the village of Vodyanoe in the Volnovakhsky district. Now the village people have a reliable electricity supply.

DTEK Donetsk Grids serves the Ukraine’s interests, shares the values of the community, and understands that permanent and uninterrupted power supply is crucial for the residents in the region.

Let us recall that in May DTEK Donetsk Grids restored the operation of the 35kV overhead line named “Scherbinovka – Podyem-3” damaged after shelling, and returned power to 660 households in front-line villages of Druzhba and Ozarianovka. In June, the company restored the operation of the 10 kV line and returned electricity to 37 households in the front-line village of Opytnoye. In July, DTEK Donetsk Grids restored the operation of the 6 kV line and returned electricity to 68 households in the front-line villages of Travnevoe and Gladosovo. And in August, the company restored the operation of the 10 kV line and returned electricity to 38 households in the Taramchiuk front-line village.

In 2021, DTEK Donetsk Grids restored the operation of 3 high-voltage lines, 15 medium-low voltage lines, 161 transformer substations damaged because of shelling. The company restored power supply for more than 6,000 residents of 24 frontline settlements.