DTEK brings back light: energy workers have restored electricity supply to 321,000 families in August

Thermal power generation04 September 2023

In August, DTEK energy workers have restored electricity to 321,000 families*, left without power supply due to shelling in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa regions. After each air or artillery attack, specialists of the Distribution System Operators promptly repair the grids once they obtain permission from the AFU and SES.

In August, enemy attacks regularly damaged the country’s grids and left thousands of Ukrainians without electricity. Over the course of August, energy workers of the DTEK Grids Distribution System Operators have restored electricity to 242,000 families in the Donetsk region and 77,000 families in the Dnipropetrovsk region that are close to the areas of active hostilities and temporarily occupied territories.

Infrastructure facilities of the Odesa region continue to suffer enemy attacks that damage regional grids. DTEK Odesa Grids specialists have restored its operation for 2,000 families 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 8.7 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 areas 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.