DTEK brings back light: energy workers restored electricity to 337,000 homes in October

Thermal power generation01 November 2023

In October, DTEK energy workers have restored power to 337,000 families*, affected by shelling in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk 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 October, enemy attacks regularly damaged our country’s grids and left thousands of Ukrainians without electricity. Over the course of October, energy workers of the DTEK Grids Distribution System Operators have restored electricity to 316,000 families in the Donetsk region, where active hostilities are ongoing, and to 21,000 families in the districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region that are close to the areas of active hostilities and temporarily occupied territories.

Besides, in October shelling damaged the grids in the Odesa region, where power has been restored to 417 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 18 month of a full-scale war, we have already restored electricity to 9.2 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.