DTEK Energy Holding has invested almost UAH 2bn in repairs of its thermal power plants since the beginning of March, DTEK’s executive director Dmytro Sakharuk said.
“Now nine units are under scheduled repairs. We started the repair campaign back in March. We spent almost 2 billion hryvnias to ensure these repairs. Plus we actively extract coal. We have to put 28 faces into operation, 11 of them have already been put into operation and two more faces are to work this month,” – he said during a national telethon.
At the same time Sakharuk said that in general in the power system there are no critical situations that would lead to limitation of consumers, except for point blackouts due to shelling. According to him, under conditions of summer repair campaign of TPP and NPP, reduction of HPS generation with the end of the floods and because of the Kakhovska HPP blowing up, the thermal generation maintains the balance in the power system “plus the imports arrive in certain hours, which overlap the deficit. At the same time he pointed out that the economical consumption of electricity is always necessary, including from the economic point of view, in order to pay less for the resource.
As DTEK noted in its Telegram Channel, in May 2023 the company’s TPPs generated 20% more electricity than in May last year. In total, they have generated more than 5.7 billion kWh of electricity since the beginning of the year, which equals the average annual consumption of about 1.9 million households.
As reported, DTEK energy holding by the beginning of June repaired four power units of its thermal power plants in preparation for the autumn-winter period 2023/2024, which is 15% of the total number of power units planned for repair (a total of 27 power units are planned to be repaired within the repair campaign 2023).
Overall, DTEK needs almost UAH 7 billion to repair equipment damaged and destroyed by the enemy at its thermal power plants.
