DTEK Donetsk Grids Restores Service to the Village of Opytne

The 10kV line was damaged on June 13. Since it is in the grey zone, it was required to coordinate the recovery activities with the JCCC (Joint Center for Control and Coordination on Ceasefire Issues), and involve representatives of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and the OSCE to do the reconstruction work.

“As soon as the company got all the needed approvals, our representatives started to restore the power supply. Now all the residents of the Opytne village have their lights on. To this end, 80 meters of underground cable were replaced, so that we could resume the operation of transformer substation and return power to 37 households,” says Oleksii Degtiarev, CEO of DTEK Donetsk Grids.

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. In 2020, DTEK Donetsk Grids returned power supply to 2 front-line settlements, restored the operation of 2 high-voltage lines, 14 medium voltage lines, and 126 transformer substations that were damaged after shelling. In total, from the very outset of the war in Donbass, the company has restored power on the substations and power lines more than 16,000 times.

In 2021, DTEK Donetsk Grids keeps restoring the power supply within front-line territories, despite all the challenges and restriction.

Let us recall that in May 2021, 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.