said DTEK CEO Maksym Timchenko.
“We have lost 80% of the available capacity. Of course, these are the most difficult times since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in terms of the country’s energy supply and the scale of destruction,” he said.
“The main problem is the lack of sufficient air defense systems. We can restore power plants and bring additional equipment, but we don’t know what will happen the next day. We won’t have anything to restore soon,” he added.
The situation is currently stable thanks to the warm weather and European electricity imports, but this will change in winter.
Meanwhile, it has been decided to deploy a network of small and medium-sized cogeneration facilities in 32 cities of Ukraine. This is necessary to ensure a stable heat supply for more than a million residents of apartment buildings and about 1,000 social facilities, independent from electricity supply.
Ukrainian businesses are encouraged to develop their electricity generation capabilities and storage systems.