Three thermal power plants were damaged by Russian shelling in February. Often, the enemy fired at the Kurakhovskaya thermal power plant in the Donetsk region.
At the end of winter, 1.4 GW of DTEK’s thermal generation was out of action due to Russian shelling. But electrical engineers were able to restore 10 power units and in addition reactivated two more units. The CEO of DTEK Energy, Ildar Saleev, spoke about this in a discussion of the DiXi Group about the results of the second winter in the conditions of a full-scale war with Russia.
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According to him, all available thermal generating equipment worked to the maximum.
“We managed to repair and restore 10 power units of thermal power plants to the power system after shelling. We also reactivated two power units, which added 500 MW of power to the power system. This also had a positive effect – now winter the units operate at full capacity,” said Saleev.
According to him, all thermal power plants have been able to carry out scheduled repairs of power units. In total, 26 of them were carried out in 2023. And the costs of DTEK amounted to almost 4 billion hryvnias.
Also in this winter, it is possible to provide thermal generation with energy sources.
“To achieve this, our coal mining enterprises worked at full capacity. To be safe, today we also delivered almost 320 thousand tons of imported coal from Poland to our thermal power plants,” said Saleev.
At the same time, three thermal power plants of DTEK Energy were damaged by Russian shelling in February alone. Often, the enemy opened fire on the front-line Kurakhovskaya thermal power plant in the Donetsk region.
Saleev is convinced that Ukrainian energy facilities will be the target of Russian aggressors in the upcoming heating season.
We remind you that within two months of 2024, DTEK power engineers restored electricity to more than 1.1 million Ukrainians who were without electricity due to Russian shelling.
Source: korrespondent
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