DTEK: Energy workers restarted TPPs from scratch 17 times after shelling during heating season
During the past heating season, DTEK Energo’s power engineers had to restart the company’s thermal power plants from scratch 17 times following enemy shelling.
This was reported by DTEK, according to Ukrinform.
“During the most challenging heating season, DTEK Energo’s power engineers had to restart the company’s thermal power plants from scratch 17 times and restore their operation following massive shelling; since the start of the full-scale war, this has happened 68 times,” the statement reads.
It is noted that due to enemy attacks, the plants were forced to shut down completely—in the terminology of power engineers, they “went to zero.” This means that the TPP generates no electricity and does not feed any power into the grid.
Before the full-scale invasion, “shutting down to zero” was an extraordinary event that occurred extremely rarely and only in emergency situations, but during the war, amid constant shelling of power facilities, such “shutdowns” became routine.
According to reports, after each wave of large-scale shelling of Ukrainian thermal power plants, energy workers immediately began clearing the aftermath of the strikes and carrying out restoration work to get the thermal power plants back online as quickly as possible.
“Restoring a plant from scratch is always a multi-stage, complex technical operation carried out by professional teams of power engineers and repair crews. We continue to do everything possible to maintain the stability of the power grid and prepare for summer consumption peaks and the upcoming heating season,” said DTEK Energy CEO Oleksandr Fomenko.
The company noted that since the start of the full-scale invasion, DTEK Energy’s thermal and hydroelectric power plants have been attacked by the enemy more than 220 times. As a result of the attacks, 59 power plant workers were injured and four were killed.
As reported, an energy facility in the Odesa region sustained significant damage due to an attack on the night of April 6.
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