Energy companies will periodically transfer information about household customers’ debts to the Ukrainian Bureau of Credit Histories, the press service of energy holding DTEK said.
“YASNO and the Ukrainian Bureau of Credit Histories have begun cooperating. Accordingly, the bureau will now receive information about YASNO customers who have accumulated debts for consumed electricity, and this information will be displayed in their credit history,” the statement said.
As it is noted, as of May 1, 2023, household consumers have accumulated arrears of more than one month for consumed electric power in the amount of more than 1.7 billion UAH.
“In order to encourage customers to be more responsible in paying for used electricity, YASNO will periodically transmit information about household customers’ debts to the bureau,” the department explained.
So, if a client has debts on utility bills, but wants to get a loan from a financial institution, the lender will be able to see his credit history and then make a decision on this issue.
At the same time, disciplined clients who pay on time for the services they consume will be able to build a positive credit history. This step will allow them to improve their credit reputation, receive more favorable loan terms and ensure their financial stability in the future, YASNO said.
“There are customers who don’t pay for used electricity and other utilities, but take out loans, such as for another new iPhone. It is precisely for such clients that such activity is designed,” said Sergey Kovalenko, YASNO general director.
“DTEK Energy plans to launch three new longwalls in May in addition to the eight that have already been put into operation since the beginning of 2023, the energy holding said.
“DTEK Energy’s miners continue to work on supplying Ukrainian thermal power plants with coal. To this end, they have put eight new faces into operation since the beginning of the year. We plan to launch three more as early as May,” he pointed out in his Telegram channel on Wednesday.
According to the company, one of the faces has a stockpile of more than 1 million tons, which will come in handy in preparation for next winter.
“DTEK miners are making every effort to ensure that Ukraine’s generation is supplied with coal,” the energy holding said.
As reported, in 2022 coal miners of the company put into operation 28 new faces.
“In order to pass the heating season more reliably, DTEK Energy supported with fuel not only its own thermal power plants, but also found an opportunity to help state-owned ones. At the end of last year, more than 120 thousand tons of coal were shipped for their needs,” the energy holding said in March 2023.
A combination of several factors: increased generation, reduced consumption due to the weekend and warm weather, as well as network repairs contributed to the absence of blackouts on Sunday, but Ukrainians still need to prepare for the application of power supply limitation schedules on weekdays, DTEK executive director Dmitry Sakharuk said.
“A combination of several factors allows today, on a particular day, not to limit consumption. But tomorrow, when it will be a working day and consumption will increase, schedules of cut-offs will be used,” Sakharuk said on the air of the National Telethon Unified News on Sunday.
At the same time, he explained that the increase of the generation and its supply was due to the return to the system of some thermal and nuclear units, the increase of the production of electricity by solar power plants due to the favorable weather conditions, as well as the networks repaired “thanks to the titanic work of energy specialists.
On the other hand, according to him, a positive role is played by warming, prolongation of the day and reduction of consumption due to the weekends.
At the same time Sakharuk specified that in addition to balance outages, that is, generation restrictions, there are also network restrictions, because of which in some areas there may still be outages.
“We still have a lot of places that were severely affected by the shelling and which have not been repaired completely, for example, Odessa, Kyiv region, Kharkiv region, Zaporizhia,” the DTEK top manager noted.
As it was reported, now all the nine nuclear power units available after the occupation of Zaporizhzhya NPP are in operation: over the last few days, the power system received additional 1220 MW of capacity after repair of one of the nuclear power units and 220 MW of additional capacity of another one due to the completion of repair of the turbine generator.
DTEK Energy Holding within the framework of Rinat Akhmetov’s Steel Front initiative in February-September this year supplied Ukrainian military and medics with over UAH 250 million worth of free electricity.
“Overall, medical and military institutions in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions received 45.15 million kWh of electricity. This allowed the state budget to save 250 million UAH and direct these funds to the urgent needs of the defense,” the holding said in a release on Friday.
According to it, more than 100 state and municipal medical institutions, as well as military and security agencies are provided with free electricity.
In particular, electricity is provided to Dnipropetrovsk Regional Clinical Hospital named after I.I. Mechnikov, Dnipropetrovsk Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital, Kyiv City Clinical Hospital № 8, and others.
DTEK’s press service clarified to Energoreform that supplies of free electricity continue.
The company noted that since the beginning of the war, SCM businesses, which includes DTEK, have sent more than UAH 3 billion to help Ukraine and Ukrainians, including as part of the Rinat Akhmetov Steel Front military initiative, in particular, over 150,000 bulletproof vests, over two thousand drones and radios, 700 cars, 0.5 million liters of fuel and others were made and transferred.
Distribution system operator DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids has added the addresses of legal clients to the schedule of stabilization outages.
“Business owners can now find out about possible blackouts by simply writing their business address in the search box on the site. This will allow them to plan their business and prepare for a possible blackout,” the company said on Facebook on Wednesday.
It is clarified that almost 10 thousand addresses of legal clients have been added to the schedule of potential outages, which are located in buildings that have a separate address from an apartment building and were not previously included in the stabilization outages database.
In addition, it is noted that the company continues to expand the address base in the charts. “If your address is not on the schedule, but there is no light, please let us know via the feedback form on the website of DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids. We will definitely check everything and add your business address to the schedule if necessary,” the company explained.
DTEK Kyiv Grids announced the cancellation of stabilization power outages in Kyiv by Sunday morning.
DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids returned electricity to all consumers who were subjected to stabilization blackouts by order of NPC Ukrenergo from 09:20 on October 22 to 00:36 on October 23. All houses in Kyiv with light,” the company said on its website on Sunday.
For his part, Serhiy Kovalenko, CEO of the energy supplier YASNO, on his Facebook, among other things, announced the cancellation of shutdowns in Kyiv.
“End energy alarm in Kyiv,” he wrote, advising to keep an eye on the company’s announcements to have time to prepare for possible outages.
DTEK Kyiv Regional Electric Grids and DTEK Donetsk Grids also reported that by Sunday morning all their clients, to whom stabilization restrictions were applied by order of Ukrenergo, also had electricity due to their cancellation.
On Sunday morning, the head of the Rivne OVA, Vitaliy Koval, said that during the night, power engineers managed to connect most of the subscribers to the power supply, to whom it was limited due to Russian attacks on the power system. “Now we are working on connecting another 24,750 subscribers. These are, in particular, residents of the village of Zarya, Alexandria, Klevan, Orzhei, Shpanov, Shubkov and others,” he wrote on his Facebook.
At the same time, all publications continue to call on Ukrainians, both the population and businesses, to save electricity as much as possible and not create additional load on the networks during peak hours.
As reported, as a result of damage to the energy infrastructure of Ukraine as a result of the morning large-scale air attacks of Russian troops on October 22, NPC Ukrenergo was forced to impose power supply restrictions in Kyiv and ten regions. According to the company, the scale of destruction on that day is comparable to or greater than that inflicted on the energy system on October 10-12. Earlier, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said that Russian air attacks on energy systems, which have intensified since October 10, have damaged 30-40% of the total national energy infrastructure. According to his calculations, approximately half of the thermal generation capacity was damaged, due to which Ukraine lost 4,000 MW of capacity.
