OREANDA-NEWS. On 10 September, DTEK's power workers restored power supply in Avdeyevka. The town with a population of 35,000 people had been deprived of electricity since 17 August when the local 110 kV power transmission line was damaged by shells. Power engineers were unable even to look at the damage while the shellfire continued.

Aleksandr Obuz, Chief Technology Officer, DTEK Power Grid: “Every day, for twenty three days when Avdeyevka had had no electricity supply, we attempted to repair the damaged power lines but the incessant shelling would not let us do it. When the area was safe for work, four repair teams started restoring the damaged power lines. They had a lot to repair - about 30 downed and 50 destroyed power lines.”

DTEK is the largest energy company in Ukraine. It is part of the financial and industrial group System Capital Management (SCM). The shareholder of the group is Rinat Akhmetov. Maxim Timchenko is the Chief Executive Officer of DTEK. Currently, DTEK employs 140,000 people.

Electricity is the core product of DTEK. The assets portfolio is represented by 10 thermal power plants and two combined heat and power plants with 18 GW of total installed capacity; one wind farm with the designed installed capacity of 200 MW; five electricity distribution and sales enterprises, which provide services to over 5.2 million customers - both individuals and legal entities; 31 mines and 13 coal-processing plants; oil and gas extraction assets.

In 2013, DTEK's enterprises generated 53 TWh and purchased 56.9 TWh of electricity for further supply to consumers; coal output equalled 41.4 million tonnes and coal processing amounted to 29.3 million tonnes. DTEK exports electricity to four countries and coal to 31 countries worldwide.