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NUMBER OF INSTALLED SOLAR PLANTS IN KYIV REGION INCREASES BY 17%

7 October , 2020  

DTEK Kyiv Region Grids in the six months of 2020 connected 297 household solar power plants to the networks, thereby increasing the number of such plants in the region by 16.8%, to 2,082.

According to the press service of the company, Kyiv region is one of the five leaders, where the largest number of household solar plants is installed.

According to Vitaliy Shaida, the director general of DTEK Kyiv Region Grids, the largest number of “green” energy producers are in Kyiv-Sviatoshynsky districts with 344 stations, Brovary district with 263 plants and Boryspil district with 235 stations.

As reported, Ukrainian households had installed more than 25,600 solar panels as of July 1, 2020. The total capacity of all solar plants is 658 MW. The leaders in the number of solar power plants also became Dnipropetrovsk region (3,398), Ternopil region (2,200), Ivano-Frankivsk region (1,900), and Zakarpattia region (1,600).

In the first half of 2020, some 1,330 new private solar power plants were connected to the distribution system operators of DTEK Grids. Thus, as of July 1, 2020, the total number of private solar power plants connected to DTEK Grids is 7,220 objects, which is 28% of the total number of prosumers in Ukraine.

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