DTEK WEEKLY DIGEST #11

DTEK Energy is getting ready for the next winter heating season. Repairing works of 28 TPP power units are planned

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DTEK Energy is getting ready for the next winter season in advance. Scheduled repairs of 28 TPP power units are ongoing. The preliminary stage of the repair works is to be completed by the end of the month. ?

“Direct losses from damage and destruction of the equipment of the company’s generating assets are estimated at UAH 6 billion. The level of destruction is large-scale, so the next heating season will not be any easier than the one Ukraine has passed recently,”- said Ildar Saleev, CEO of DTEK Energy.

DTEK restored electricity supply for more than 55,000 families over the last week

Over the last week (March 12 through 19), specialists of the Distribution System Operators have restored power supply for 55,000 families in 72 settlements, left without electricity due to shelling in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

“As of March 20, the situation in the country has stabilized and there is no need to implement stabilization or emergency shutdowns. However, the enemy continues to destroy the grids in the frontline regions. Since the beginning of a full-scale invasion on February 24 last year, energy workers have already restored power to 7.2 mln* customers. Due to constant shelling, electricity had to be restored to some objects over dozens of times within the last year,” – noted DTEK Grids CEO Oleksandr Fomenko.

DTEK Grids will install almost 195,000 modern meters this year

Despite the war in the country, DTEK Grids continues to introduce innovations in the regions of business presence. This year, energy companies will continue to replace old electricity meters with modern multi-zone ones that help customers save up on electricity consumed at night. By the end of 2023, almost 195,000 such meters will be placed in the homes of Ukrainians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kyiv Regions, and Kyiv. The new metering devices installation is funded by the investment program approved by the National Commission that carries out state regulation in energy and communal services.

russia tried to freeze Ukraine. Here’s how the country has survived the winter – The Wall Street Journal

Correspondents of The Wall Street Journal described in detail how russia lost the energy war in Ukraine and DTEK’s contribution to this interim victory. On November 23 as a result of another massive missile attack a number of substations and transmission lines have been destroyed. The power system went into imbalance, shutting down power plants, plunging the country into darkness. Bringing a power plant that was shut down back into operation requires another power source. Ukraine’s energy companies teamed up and used a hydroelectric plant that was still running, to restart a coal-fired plant and another one and another one, said DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko. Only when the efficient number of power plants were connected back into the power system, nuclear power plants that are the power system’s mainstay were also brought back into operation.