Special Focus

People like Oleksandr Pavliuk rarely make the headlines or feature in news stories, yet they perform crucial tasks to keep Ukraine’s gas flowing. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Oleksandr, a truck driver at the Zaporizhzhia industrial site of the Ukrainian Gas Transmission System Operator (GTSOU), has been responsible for evacuating work equipment from his site and another site in...

Serhiy Nosach, an electrician at the Eastern Line Production Department of Ukraine's Gas Transmission System Operator (GTSO), embodies courage and professionalism. During intense fighting in Kharkiv Oblast in 2022-2023, Serhiy was responsible for maintaining the gas supply to the city of Derhachi and surrounding villages. Despite the fierce fighting raging around the station, Serhiy twice managed...

Dmytro Sotnichenko, a senior machinist overseeing the power units at the boiler-turbine shop at "Kyiv thermal power station" Joint Venture, always had a clear vision of his future in the energy sector. His journey began as a student when during a tour of the CHP plant, he instantly felt that he had found his professional calling. 

As a senior machinist, Dmytro remains steadfast at his post,...

Amid the relentless hum of turbines and the flashing control panels at Kyiv’s Combined Heat and Power Plant, shift supervisor Ihor Dudarenko stands as a beacon of resilience. His job at Kyivteploenergo is to ensure the station's energy systems run smoothly—a role that became even more critical in the first chaotic months of the full-scale Russian invasion. 

In those early days, Dudarenko and...

On 12 April 2022, Russian forces struck the Dnipro-Mykolaiv water supply network, thus leaving the city of Mykolaiv without water for the first time. The invaders deliberately destroyed the pipes providing water to the city as they advanced. Since then, the people of Mykolaiv have had no fresh tap water. The local utility company Mykolaivoblteploenergo is doing its best to resolve the problem, at...

With USAID’s support, the country is reducing its dependence on Russian energy 

Around 1 a.m. on Feb. 24, 2022, the Ukrainian and Moldovan electric systems disconnected from the Russia-Belarus system. This was a scheduled test in preparation for Ukraine’s and Moldova’s planned synchronization with the European power system the following year, a crucial step toward European Union (EU)...

Ruslan Vanyarh has been working at the Vuhlehirsk Thermal Power Plant (TPP) in the Donetsk region since 2014. Back then, the Russian army repeatedly shelled the station, damaging the equipment. The energy workers did everything possible and impossible to supply electricity to eastern Ukraine. In the summer of 2022, fierce battles took place over the station, and in August 2022, the city of...

Russia's missile attack on one of Kyiv's Combined Heat and Power Plants (CHP) in the fall of 2022 caused significant damage: a fire broke out and the plant lost its power. All relay protection and automation mechanisms that ensure the failure-free operation of heat and power equipment stopped working.  

Andrii Yur, deputy head of the electrical shop for relay protection and automation of...

The war has adjusted the strategic development plans of Ukraine's largest utility company, which operates two combined heat and power plants in the capital, more than two hundred boiler houses and heat supply stations, and almost three thousand kilometers of heat networks in Kyiv.

Established with the support of the USAID Energy Security Project, the Kyivteploenergo Gender Committee (GC)...