Under fire for the sake of light: since the beginning of the year, DTEK Grids energy workers repaired 2,800 power facilities

The enemy does not stop attacking peaceful Ukrainian towns and villages with drones, missiles, air bombs and artillery. Including destruction of power facilities. Since the beginning of the year, DTEK Grids DSO specialists restored operation of 2,800 facilities, damaged due to hostilities. The overhead power lines are the ones destroyed by shelling most often. They suffer from direct hits, falling of fragments of shells and drones. Energy workers had to repair some of them on dozens of occasions. A “record holder” line on one of the hottest directions in the Donetsk region was repaired by energy workers more than 30 times over 8 months. 

“The energy infrastructure is being damaged the most in the regions where active hostilities are ongoing, or close to them – Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions. In the Donetsk region in particular, dozens of lines in the distribution grid are being damaged daily. However, the enemy does not stop attacking other regions as well. Over the past 8 months, we restored electricity to homes of 3.8 mln families* in Odesa, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk regions and in the capital,” –noted Oleksandr Fomenko, CEO at DTEK Grids. 

DTEK Grids energy workers are doing everything possible to eliminate damage as soon as possible. They commence works immediately after obtaining permission and access to the site of damage from the AFU and SES. However, their work remains dangerous. Since the beginning of the year, restoration crews came under fire nearly 20 times. 6 energy workers were wounded over this period of time. 

*considering that some customers had electricity restored to them on dozens of occasions.