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03 October 2023, Ukraine
Britain’s Guardian newspaper covers DTEK’s winter preparations
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Britain’s Guardian newspaper covers DTEK’s winter preparations

“On 25 February 2022, Oleksandr Danyliuk woke up to see Russian soldiers. “I went to bed. The next morning I peered outside my window. It was 6.30am. There were four Russian armoured vehicles opposite my house,” he recalled. Danyliuk, an engineer with Ukraine’s largest private electricity company, DTEK, said Moscow’s invasion took him by surprise.”

Danyliuk’s story is at the heart of a report by The Guardian newspaper into how Ukraine is protecting its energy infrastructure from russian attacks as the country approaches winter.

Read the full story here.

Drawing heavily on interviews with DTEK engineers and CEO Maxim Timchenko, the Guardian’s Luke Harding outlines the intensive work being done by DTEK in order to get ready.

“In 2022 we had to improvise. Now we are better prepared,” the report quotes engineer Danyliuk as saying.

DTEK has spent $110m preparing for the possibility of another russian onslaught this winter.

“We have done everything possible and sometimes impossible to be prepared,” CEO Maxim Timchenko told the paper. “Nobody can guarantee there won’t be blackouts this winter. Unfortunately, we are at war. We can’t predict the scale of russian attacks. We will do everything we can so generators are not used.”

BACKGROUND

DTEK Group is the leader and the biggest private investor in Ukraine’s energy sector. DTEK Group employs 55,000 people. Our companies are involved in coal and natural gas extraction; electricity generation from wind, solar, and thermal power plants; energy resources trading in local and international markets; distributing and supplying electricity to consumers; providing energy efficiency services to customers; and developing high-speed charging station networks.
 
Our Strategy 2030 commits DTEK Group to transforming into a more efficient, eco-friendly and technologically advanced business, guided by ESG principles. Our goal is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040.
 
During the war, DTEK Group has restored power-supply more that 8 million customers in the regions affected by russian hostilities.

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