DTEK restores electricity: over the course of a week, power was restored to 76,000 homes of residents of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions

Thermal power generation19 September 2022

Over the course of a week (September 12 through 18), DTEK energy workers have restored electricity to 76,000 families, left without power supply due to shelling in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Despite shelling and difficult situation with hostilities, specialists of the DTEK Grids Distribution System Operators continue to restore the grids with the permission of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and SES. Our goal is to provide towns and villages with electricity, required from normal life of the region’s residents.

Over the past week (September 12 through 18), specialists of the DTEK Grids Distribution System Operators have restored operation of the grids, damaged due to hostilities, for 76,000 families in 99 settlements of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

Intense air assaults are underway in the Donetsk region, destroying infrastructure of towns and villages every day. This includes destruction of the grids that leaves residents of the region without electricity. Last week alone, DTEK electricians have restored electricity supply to more than 62,000 residents of the region in 74 settlements of Bakhmut, Kramatorsk, Volnovakha and Pokrovsk districts.

Dnipropetrovsk region is shelled every day as well. Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol districts mostly. Overall, energy workers have restored power to almost 46,000 families in 25 settlements of the Dnipropetrovsk region last week. Energy workers promptly commence repairs and are doing everything possible to restore power supply immediately after obtaining a permit for work performance from SES and AFU.

94 settlements in the Donetsk region remain without electricity. DTEK Donetsk Grids specialists will definitely restore electricity to homes of all residents of the region once they obtain a permit for work performance from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

DTEK energy workers are working non-stop in the conditions of hostilities for 208 days now and together with all other services are doing everything possible to provide electricity to homes of Ukrainians.

Let us recall that restoration of power supply to residents of districts in the Kyiv region that suffered from occupation was completed in May. Preliminary estimates show that restoration of the grids in the Kyiv region to the pre-war level of power supply quality and reliability will require investing about 1 billion hryvnas. Of which the company has already invested over 300 million hryvnas in restoration of electricity to residents of the Kyiv region. In perspective of 2022-2023, the company requires UAH 600-700 mln. to create more reliable power supply circuits.

The company needs aid from government and international partners in the amount of about 1 billion hryvnas in order to fully restore infrastructure of the grids and develop it according to the plan and needs of residents of the region.