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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)...

Olga Babiy is a member of the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission (NEURC), one of the seven NEURC's Commissioners. The only woman in the leadership of Ukraine's Energy Regulator, she oversees licensees' activities in energy and communal services and coordinates investigations of abuses in wholesale energy markets. For her active participation in implementing the EU Regulation on...

The main task of the Mykolaiv Linear Production Department of Main Gas Pipelines (LPDMG) of the Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine (GTSOU) is to transport natural gas to the South of Ukraine. Despite constant shelling, this unit continues to work and provide natural gas to consumers in the south. That is why it is so important that the LPDMG facilities function continuously and, if...

Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine Svitlana Grynchuk is one of the few women in the Ukrainian energy industry, thanks to whose efforts reforms in the sector are implemented despite the war. Ms. Grynchuk is an energy, climate change, and environmental protection expert with experience in the Government of Ukraine, international financial institutions, and technical assistance projects....

At the boiler house where Svitlana Mitina works, the boilers have a very thick lining, and when power outages occur, the boilers need to be cooled down quickly to prevent damage to heating networks and residential heating systems. During the last heating season, when Russia started targeting critical infrastructure in Ukraine leading to frequent emergency power outages, the boilers had to be...

A cruise missile attack on the plant in the autumn of 2022 and a ballistic missile attack in 2023 caught Halyna Kuznets, the shift supervisor of the chemical workshop at one of the combined heat and power plants of a "Kyivski TETs" special division within Kyivteploenergo utility, at her workplace. The damage sustained by the combined heat and power plant due to these and other missile attacks was...

The full-scale invasion of Russia of Ukraine radically changed the life of Olesia Zamkovа, the head of the testing laboratory of the Kharkiv Main Gas Pipeline Linear Production Divisions (MPLPD) of the Operator of the Gas Transport System of Ukraine (OGTSU). Part of the Kharkiv region was occupied, including the industrial site of the Borovа compressor station of Kharkiv MPLPD. Later, these...