Taking care of the environment: DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids installed more than 2,000 eco-friendly lamps in 2020

Thermal power generation18 February 2021

DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids installed 2,348 eco-friendly LED lamps in 2020. They are safe, efficient, and free of substances harmful to humans and environment. In recent years, the company has replaced 37% of lighting fixtures that contain mercury. By the end of 2022, DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids plans to cover 100% and, above all, replace fluorescent lamps with LED ones in rooms where people work every day. By the end of 2025, it is planned to have green lighting at substations where fewer people work.

“DTEK is transforming its business in accordance with the new strategy 2030, which is based on ESG principles, values and responsibility for progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN Global Compact. We have set the goal to switch to LED lighting in full, which is more environmentally friendly and reliable. It can serve up to 10 years without replacing, and does not require special disposal, like mercury lamps. This year, the company will replace another 1,500 lamps,” says Vitalii Shaida, DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids CEO.

Over the past four years, DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids handed over more than 6,500 fluorescent lamps for disposal. DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids collects used fluorescent lamps, stores them, and then sends them for disposal to contractor companies licensed by the Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine.

In general, the company is implementing a number of initiatives aimed at protecting nature and improving the environment: replacing old equipment with new, more environmentally friendly ones, sorting and disposing of waste, facilitating the connection of green generation, protecting birds from electric shock, etc.

As previously reported, last year DTEK Grids was recognized as a business that cares about biodiversity conservation. The company received an award for its stork protection project at the annual ECOtransformation 2020 event. Distribution system operators of the DTEK Group have been installing protective nesting platform on electrical poles since 2013. DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids joined the project in 2020 and installed 41 nest platforms for storks across the region. A video about the project can be found here.