DTEK Donetsk Grids restored service to 15 front-line settlements in 10 months

“Electricity is a vital service, especially for the residents of frontline communities. We do our best to make sure that all our customers have electricity,” says Oleksii Degtyarev, General Director for DTEK Donetsk Grids. “Since the beginning of the year, our company has restored the operation of three high-voltage lines, seven medium-low voltage lines and 93 transformer substations damaged after shelling. They returned the power to 1,907 households in the region. The last time we restored the overhead line in the village of Vodyane, Volnovakha region”.

DTEK Donetsk Grids repair crews began the line restoration immediately after they received an agreement from the JCCC (Joint Center for Control and Coordination on Ceasefire Issues). They repaired wire breaks in two spans of the 10 kV overhead line. Now all residents of Vodyane have reliable power supply. Also, the company has replaced the power transformer at the transformer substation in the front-line village of Travneve in the Bakhmut district. This has improved the electricity supply for 68 households.

DTEK Donetsk Grids serves the Ukraine’s interests, shares the values of the community, and understands that permanent and uninterrupted power supply is crucial for the residents in the region.

Let us recall that in August, DTEK Donetsk Grids returned electricity to Luhanske and Taramchiuk villages that lost power after army actions. In July, DTEK Donetsk Grids restored the operation of the 6 kV line and returned electricity to 68 households in the front-line villages of Travneve and Gladosovo. In June, the company restored the operation of the 10 kV line and to 37 households in the front-line village of Opytnoye. In May, DTEK Donetsk Grids restored the operation of the 35kV overhead line named “Scherbinovka – Podyem-3” damaged after army actions, and returned power to 660 households in of Druzhba and Ozarianovka.

In total, since the beginning of war in Donbass, DTEK Donetsk Grids have restored power supply at substations and power lines more than 16,000 times.