DTEK energy workers’ performance in June: electricity restored to almost 800,000 families in Donetsk, Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions

Thermal power generation04 July 2022

In June, DTEK energy workers have restored electricity to 783,000 families, left without power due to shelling in Donetsk, Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The majority – in the Donetsk region, where active hostilities are underway and shelling damages the grids every day.

In June, DTEK electricians have restored electricity to more than 783,000 families in 660 settlements, left without power due to shelling in Kyiv, Donetsk, Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

Energy workers perform most of the work in the Donetsk region. Infrastructure of the grids is shelled and requires restoration on a daily basis. Over the course of the past month, DTEK electricians have restored electricity to more than 765,000 residents of the region in 605 settlements. In some settlements, energy workers have to work almost every day due to massive artillery shelling and air strikes.

In particular, on June 11 hostilities caused shutdown of NPC Ukrenergo lines and equipment, leaving the north of the Donetsk region without electricity. DTEK Donetsk Grids specialists together with their NPC Ukrenergo counterparts within hours restored electricity via backup power circuits to more than 300,000 customers in the north of the region for the period of the main lines repair.

In June, enemy shelling continued in Kryvyi Rih district of the Dnipropetrovsk region. In particular, energy workers had to repair grids, damaged by enemy missiles in the Kryvyi Rih district, to restore service to almost 9,000 families.

Russian missile has again damaged the grids in the Kyiv region. On June 1, damage of power lines due to enemy shelling caused power outage in 24 settlements in Obukhiv district of the Kyiv region. Within two hours, electricians have restored electricity to more than 8,000 families.

DTEK energy workers are working non-stop for 130 days in a row and together with all other services are doing everything possible to provide electricity to homes of our customers.

Let us note that restoration of power supply to the 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 as soon as possible. Second stage of the grids restoration is ahead. A large scope of work is related to restoration of the backup power supply that will help ensure reliable power supply of towns and villages, similar to the one prior to hostilities. In perspective of 2022-2023, it requires investing another UAH 600-700 mln. 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 as per the plan and needs of residents of the region.