DTEK Odesa Grids to improve the power supply quality to 87,000 customers in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District

Thermal power generation02 April 2021

DTEK Odesa Grids is updating the energy infrastructure in the southern and central parts of Odesa Region aiming to improve the voltage quality in the networks and reduce the number of emergency outages. In 2021, the company will allocate more than UAH 12 million for the development of power grids in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district. These measures will ensure that 87,000 customers have high-quality power supply.

Over the year, there will be 28 unloading transformer substations of 10/0.4kV installed, six substations will be replaced and reconstructed, four 10 kV cable lines with a total length of 2.2 km will be replaced, 27.49 km of 10 kV overhead bare wire with aerial bundled cable with an increase in cross-section will be replaced, 45 existing networks will be reconstructed and 13 new 0.4 kV overhead lines will be built in this area. These measures will improve the quality of power supply to customers in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Raseyka resort, Bezymyanka, Sukholuzhie, Glubokoe, Borisovka, Zarechnoye, Novoselitsa, Rozovka, Kulevcha, Novoselovka, Zarya villages. In addition, these measures will ensure uninterrupted power supply to social facilities, including 55 schools, accounting about 10,000 students, 54 kindergartens, 7 hospitals and about 70 rural health posts.

“DTEK is a business that serves the interests of Ukraine. We are developing the networks infrastructure across the region, which is the key to its social and economic growth. Activities planned for 2021 will improve power supply for Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, as well as for Tuzlovskaya, Mologivskaya, Tatarbunarskaya, Limanskaya, Kulevchanskaya and Saratskaya territorial communities,” says Oleksandr Fomenko, General Director of DTEK Odesa Grids.

According to the head of the company, in 2020, DTEK Odesa Grids invested UAH 14.3 million in power supply facilities in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District. Of these, 5.3 million hryvnia was allocated for repair work and 9 million hryvnia was invested in the networks upgrade. Last year, the company laid about 60 km of aerial bundled cables in the region, installed 942 poles, 2,915 insulators, 580 traverses and 17 new unloading transformer substations.

The Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District is a resort area in Odesa Region, more than 100 km long along the Black Sea. This area accounts for some well-known resorts, such as Zatoka, Raseyka, Lebedevka, Katranka, and numerous recreation centers. Tens of thousands of tourists visit this area every year. DTEK Odesa Grids is renewing its energy infrastructure to ensure that guests enjoy their time in the region, and local residents have a stable power supply.