DTEK has invested UAH 28 billion in restoring the operation of thermal power plants and mines since the beginning of the war

Since the beginning of the full-scale conflict in 2022-2024, DTEK Energy has invested almost UAH 28 billion in the restoration of thermal power plants and the operation of mines.

“In particular, over the past three years, the company’s investments in the repair and restoration of thermal power plants amounted to almost UAH 10 billion,” the energy holding company said in a press release on Wednesday.

As stated in the document, this allowed power engineers and repair crews to work actively for several years to restore the capacity of thermal power plants that were destroyed and damaged as a result of enemy shelling. Since February 2022, more than two hundred attacks have been carried out on the company's facilities.

A significant portion of the funds was also directed to coal mining in Ukraine. Over the past three years, DTEK Energy's investments in the operation of mines amounted to almost UAH 18 billion, which helped maintain fuel reserves needed to generate heat. These funds were used, in particular, for the construction and repair of capital mining works, the processing of coal seams, equipping mines with tunneling equipment, underground transport, as well as for projects to maintain production capacities.

“The Ukrainian energy system has been facing unprecedented pressure and terror in the last three years, which no energy system in the world has experienced in the modern era. Dozens of massive attacks, thousands of missiles and drones… Thermal generation, which suffered the most, is also in the spotlight. In such conditions, we are doing and continue to do everything possible to hold the energy front,” said DTEK Energy CEO Oleksandr Fomenko.

Since the start of the full-scale invasion, DTEK Energo's thermal power plants have been attacked by the enemy 205 times. As a result of the shelling, 56 plant operators were injured, four of whom died.

Last year, Russia carried out 13 massive attacks on the Ukrainian energy sector, dealing a serious blow to DTEK Energy’s thermal power plants. As of the summer of 2024, 90% of the company’s thermal generation was damaged or destroyed.

DTEK Energy provides a closed cycle of electricity production from coal. The company's installed capacity in thermal generation as of January 2022 was 13.3 GW. A full production cycle has been created in coal mining: coal mining and enrichment, mechanical engineering and servicing of mining equipment.

Currently, most of the thermal generation capacity of the DTEK Group has been destroyed as a result of attacks from Russia.