DTEK brings back light: in June, energy workers have restored electricity supply to 277,000 families

Thermal power generation04 July 2023

In June, DTEK energy workers have restored electricity to 277,000 families*, left without power supply due to shelling in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv and Odesa regions, as well as in the city of Kyiv. After every air or artillery attack, specialists of the Distribution System Operators promptly repair the grids once they obtain permission from the AFU and SES.

In June, the enemy did not stop his attacks on the civil infrastructure facilities. This attacks regularly damage the country’s grids, leaving thousands of Ukrainians without electricity. Over the course of June, energy workers of the DTEK Grids Distribution System Operators have restored electricity to 228,000 families in the Donetsk region and 42,000 families in the Dnipropetrovsk region that are close to the areas of active hostilities and temporarily occupied territories.

Additionally, due to air attacks energy workers had to restore electricity to almost 5,000 families in Kyiv, 1,700 families in the Kyiv region and 85 households in the Odesa region.

“Our task is to provide residents and critical infrastructure with electricity as much as it is possible in the conditions of regular shelling. Over the course of more than a year of a full-scale war, we have already restored electricity to more than 8 million families in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk regions, and in the capital. Most of them have been left without electricity due to enemy attacks on dozens of occasions,” – noted DTEK Grids CEO Oleksandr Fomenko.

Company’s specialists continue to work together with AFU and SES in the regions of fiercest hostilities and restore operation of the grids immediately after obtaining permission from them.

* considering that some customers had electricity restored to them on 2 or more occasions.