In 2024, DTEK Energy plans to invest nearly UAH 4 billion in repairing and restoring thermal power plants that have been damaged by extensive missile attacks on the energy sector over the past three months, reported DTEK Energy CEO Ildar Salieiev on his Facebook page.
He highlighted that the energy grid lost 9.2 GW of electricity capacity, with more than 80% of DTEK’s thermal power plants suffering damage or destruction due to enemy shelling.
“This reflects the unprecedented reality and scale of destruction caused by the Russian military on Ukraine’s civilian and energy infrastructure, particularly affecting thermal and hydro generation facilities that stabilise the energy grid during peak hours,” he noted.
To combat this devastation, DTEK Energy is seeking to pool all available resources.
“Our primary focus is on mobilising internal resources. This year, we’re allocating about UAH 3.9 billion to the repair campaign to rebuild DTEK’s TPPs, which is consistent with last year’s investment levels,” he added.
However, the scale of destruction is such that no company can handle it alone, prompting the Ministry of Energy to coordinate efforts across various businesses to source the necessary equipment from decommissioned plants abroad.
“Meanwhile, power engineers have no other choice but keep on doing their job – sifting through debris, restoring and rebuilding the plants from the ground up repeatedly, despite the constant threat of missiles and drones overhead,” Mr Salieiev went on to say.
All DTEK Energy’s TTPs had to shut down because of massive Russian missile attacks. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the company’s plants have been targeted more than 180 times. These attacks have resulted in injuries to fifty-one power engineers and deaths of three.
