DTEK brings back light: energy workers restored electricity to almost 713,000 homes in January

Thermal power generation05 February 2024

In January, DTEK Grids energy workers restored power to homes of almost 713,000 families*, affected by shelling in the city of Kyiv and in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv and Odesa regions. After each air attack or artillery shelling, specialists of the Distribution System Operators promptly repair the grids once they obtain permission from the AFU and SES.

In January, our country’s grids regularly suffered from enemy attacks that left thousands of Ukrainians without electricity. In the beginning of the month, energy workers of the DTEK Grids Distribution System Operators restored electricity to 284,000 families of Kyivans, whose homes were de-energized due to the enemy attack. Customers were promptly connected to power supply via backup circuits. Then, specialists of the energy company repaired damaged sections of the grids.

Grids in the Kyiv region have also been damaged during this period of time: enemy shelling left 185,000 families without electricity. Energy workers have promptly repaired damage and restored electricity to homes of residents of Bucha, Vyshhorod and Fastiv districts, whose homes were de-energized due to shelling.

In January, energy workers have also restored electricity to 214,000 families in the Donetsk region, where active hostilities are ongoing, and damages happen every day. Likewise, specialists of the energy company continue restoring grids and equipment every day – once the security situation and the military permit.

Additionally, the enemy does not suspend its shelling of the Dnipropetrovsk region, where electricity has been restored to 28,000 families in January.

Last month, shelling damaged the grids in the Odesa region too, where power has been restored to 82 families.

“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 almost two years of a full-scale war, we have already restored electricity to 10.8 million families in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Donetsk regions, and in the capital. Most of them have been left without electricity due to enemy attacks on dozens of occasions,” – noted Oleksandr Fomenko, CEO at DTEK Grids.

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.