On 18 May, DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids specialists brought the lights 100% back in the Kyiv region freed from the aggressors on 2 April 2022. High-voltage and distribution networks belonging to the company supplied power to homes of 260 thousand families in 600 settlements. This is critically important to return life back to normal in the region. Energy workers did their best to make sure that the work is completed within 45 days rather than 60 as announced earlier.
On 18 May, DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids' energy workers brought the lights back to all areas within the Kyiv region that suffered from military hostilities and were freed from the russian aggressors on 2 April. We brought the lights back to 260 thousand families in almost 600 settlements. Specifically, in Bucha, Vyshhorod and Brovary districts that suffered the most.
"DTEK Group is making its contribution in Ukraine's energy security as the war rages on. Since the first day of the war, our maintenance crews have been repairing networks destroyed by the aggressors and bringing back the lights to Ukrainians and critical infrastructural facilities. Since the first day of the war we have brought the lights back to more than 1.6 million Ukrainian families in the city of Kyiv as well as in the Kyiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa regions. In the Kyiv region, where the energy infrastructure suffered heavy destruction, it has taken us only 45 days to accomplish this massive network restoration of such a scale that the Ukrainian energy sector has never experienced throughout its history. And today, on 18 May, we eventually brought the lights back to the Kyiv region to make it a happy place for people to live", said Dmytro Sakharuk, DTEK's Executive director.
"Restoring power in the Kyiv region--and today power restoration is 100% complete--was a huge challenge. As the President said, the first thing we need to restore is windows, roofs and power supply to make sure that people can return to their homes and live a normal life", said Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Deputy Head of the President's Office, during an award event for energy workers who restored networks in the Kyiv region.
On 18 May, the last repaired 10kV line supplying the town of Irpin was put online.
"DTEK has made every effort and brought together every all resources. The restoration of the Kyiv region involved over 1,000 energy workers from DTEK's 4 DSOs from different regions of Ukraine working shoulder-to-shoulder. We have restored almost 10 thousand kilometres of power lines destroyed by shelling. We have repaired and brought online 71 high-voltage substations and 2,975 transformer substations. That is why the entire region has now the lights back again, and there is a lot to be done going forward to ensure reliable power supply", said Oleksandr Fomenko, DTEK Grids' CEO.
The Company explained that this work is only the first step towards bringing the lights back to all residents of the region as soon as possible. The next step is to restore backup sources of power supply and retrofit the existing power supply infrastructure.
Those residents of the region who are still in the dark may be connected to networks belonging to other owners -- developers, managing companies or housing maintenance companies. In order to get power restored, they have to reach out to the owners of the networks that they are connected to. The Company is ready to promptly supply power and bring back the lights to all residents once these networks are restored.
