DTEK Group contributed half a billion euros (€499,4 million) in taxes in the first half of 2025 — 25% increase year-on-year.
Tax payments are helping to sustain Ukraine’s wartime economy and support critical national priorities including defence, healthcare and community restoration.
From January to June 2025, DTEK Energy invested €143 million (UAH 7 billion) in preparing for the 2025/2026 winter, focusing on repairs and maintenance of thermal power plants and strengthening coal mining operations.
At EXPO 2025, Ambassador Kuninori Matsuda, a member of DTEK’s Advisory Council, shared the company`s vision for working with Japanese companies to help rebuild Ukraine’s energy future.
DTEK is actively seeking strategic partnerships with Japanese tech innovators, trading houses, and investors to join forces with a fast-moving, experienced Ukrainian energy leader.
Over the past two decades, DTEK has evolved from a regional energy company into the largest private energy player and a key pillar of Ukraine’s energy security.
Read more about two decades of transformation and investment in Ukraine’s energy security on DTEK website.
DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko reflects on DTEK's transformation through two decades of challenges, growth, and strategic evolution that positioned DTEK as an energy bridge between Ukraine and Europe.
"Two decades after DTEK’s work began, today we are Ukraine’s largest private energy company and its biggest wartime investor. The company is an energy bridge connecting Ukraine and Europe. And we have become a partner, at home and abroad, to those who see the great potential of our energy system", Mr. Timchenko stated via LinkedIn.
Read the CEO`s all-staff message marking 20 years of DTEK.
“Our energy powers life”: DTEK has renewed its mission, vision, values, and logo to mark this milestone, reflecting its identity and strategic direction in response to global challenges and trends.
“The future’s bright, when you stand up and fight” is part of a wider DTEK initiative to rally international support for rebuilding and protecting Ukraine’s energy sector.
Usyk’s victory inspired Ukrainian veterans and energy workers.
A recent Associated Press article highlights how Oleksandr Usyk, the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion, turned his win at Wembley Stadium on 19th July into a deeply emotional moment for Ukrainian war veterans, especially those now working to restore and protect the country’s energy system.
Maxim Timchenko gave his remarks at the URC 2025 main stage panel on “Restoring Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure: Investing in Energy Resilience”, where he stated:
DTEK’s 3rd Annual Energy Evening at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome“Today DTEK and our international partners are getting on with the job – on battery storage with Fluence, resilient rooftop solar with Octopus Energy, building Ukraine’s largest windfarm with Vestas, and importing US LNG. New windfarms, smart grids and gas-fired power stations are on their way. Now is the time to deliver real projects that will strengthen Ukraine’s resilience for the future.”
DTEK co-hosted the 3rd Annual Energy Evening with the Ukrainian Embassy in Italy and the Atlantic Council, bringing together over 140 distinguished guests.
Key announcements at URC:
DTEK Group is the largest private investor in Ukraine’s energy sector, with 55,000 employees and over €12 billion of capital invested since 2005.
Our businesses generate electricity at wind, solar and thermal power plants; distribute and supply power to end consumers; extract natural gas and coal; trade energy resources on Ukrainian and foreign markets; and provide domestic and commercial energy services.
Over the last 20 years, DTEK has grown into a national energy leader and is today transforming into a pan-European clean energy business.
Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, DTEK Group has restored power to more than 17 million consumers in regions affected by hostilities.
DTEK Group is 100% owned by SCM Holdings. The ultimate beneficiary and sole shareholder is Rinat Akhmetov, a businessman and philanthropist.