DTEK is investing $10 million this year to construct Ukraine’s first fully automated electric substation. Increasingly common in Western Europe, this kind of substation is entirely enclosed and controlled by a dispatching console – features designed to minimize outages. Located in Odesa’s densely populated Kyivskiy neighborhood, the substation will supply 52 MW to 5,000 apartments, reports Oleksandr Fomenko, general director at DTEK Odesa Grids.