DTEK Energy CEO Ildar Saleev announced this. He said preparations for the heating season started with the first warm days and continued intensively.
"The task facing the miners is not easy – to maintain the coal production rates and volumes necessary to maintain the stable operation of Ukrainian thermal power plants amid the war. To do this, they work here day and night. And in April, we launched a new giant longwall with more than 1 million tons of coal reserves. So, the mining work here is not over, at least for the next year and a half,"
said Ildar Saleev.
According to him, miners do everything possible to maximize production at other DTEK Energy mines. Since the beginning of the year, eight new longwalls have already been launched. The plan for May is to establish three more.
"The upcoming winter is not expected to be easier than the previous one for the Ukrainian energy system, so everyone is doing everything possible to ensure that Ukrainians live through it with light and warmth. If we have survived this winter, we will survive anything!"
said Saleev.
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 millions of consumers across 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.