DTEK brings back light: energy workers have restored electricity supply to 262,000 families in September

Thermal power generation04 October 2023

In September, DTEK energy workers have restored electricity to 262,000 families*, left without power supply due to shelling in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Kyiv regions, and in the city of Kyiv. 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 September, enemy attacks regularly damaged the country’s grids and left thousands of Ukrainians without electricity. Over the course of September, energy workers of the DTEK Grids Distribution System Operators have restored electricity to 211,000 families in the Donetsk region and 44,000 families in the Dnipropetrovsk region that are close to the areas of active hostilities and temporarily occupied territories.

Besides, shelling damaged the grids in Kyiv in September. Energy workers restored operation of the grids for 3,000 families. Electricity had to be restored to another thousand customers in the Kyiv region. Shelling has twice damaged the grids in the Odesa region, power has been restored to more than 2,000 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 more than a year of a full-scale war, we have already restored electricity to 8.9 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.