OREANDA-NEWS. February 02, 2010. DTEK, Ukraine’s leading private fuel and energy company, announces that Service-Invest, its electricity supply entity , has completed the reconstruction of a 35 kV outdoor switchgear unit at its 110-35/6 kV HSKPZ-1 substation. The substation supplies electricity to large enterprises in the Donetsk region of Ukraine (including Silur and Donbass-Liberty) and to such adjacent licence holders as Donetskoblenergo. The modernization, which took eight months, required UAH21.6m (approximately USD 2.7m) of capital expenditure.
 
To ensure uninterrupted energy supplies, new and up-to-date equipment from leading international providers has been installed at the substation: current and voltage transformers are provided by RITZ; DC and AC switchboards have been manufactured by SIEMENS (both of Germany) and  state-of-the-art microprocessors for relay protection and automation have been delivered by АВВ (Finland), which also includes 35 kV vacuum circuit-breakers and associated equipment.
 
Elektronaladka (Donetsk), Elektromontazh (Novy Svet settlement) and Shakhtspetsstroy were Service-Invest’s project partners.
 
Valeriy Mostsipan, General Director of Service-Invest LLC (DTEK), said:
 
“As the HSKPZ-1 substation was commissioned in the 1950s, it was time that we carried out this reconstruction programme. DTEK has a strategy for updating its infrastructure with state-of-the-art technology which improves reliability of supply to our customers and minimises the potential for any faults due to outdated and worn out equipment. This is of particular significance in the winter period, when demand for our supply increases considerably, along with the loads placed on our infrastructure.
 
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DTEK is the first private vertically-integrated power company in Ukraine. It is part of the financial and industrial group System Capital Management (SCM). The enterprises of DTEK build up an efficient operational chain of coal production and enrichment, electricity generation and distribution.
 
The coal business of DTEK includes Pavlogradugol (consisting of ten coal mines), Komsomolets Donbassa Mine and five enrichment plants. According to 2009 performance results, the Company’s share in the Ukrainian coal mining industry was 24.4%.
 
The generation business of DTEK is represented by Vostokenergo and the associated Dneproenergo Company, in which DTEK owns 47.46%. According to 2009 performance results, the share of Vostokenergo and Dneproenergo in thermal generation of Ukraine was 25.2% and 20.5% respectively.
 
Service-Invest and Energougol ENE represent the electricity distribution business of DTEK. Their share of electricity purchase in SE Energorynok in 2009 made 7.7%.