DTEK
DTEK (Ukrainian: ДТЕК) is the largest power company in Ukraine. It started in eastern Ukraine in 2005. The company generates electricity at solar, wind and thermal power plants. It extracts coal and natural gas. It buys and sells energy products in Ukraine and sells electricity to western Europe. It distributes and supplies electricity to consumers. It has built a grid of supercharger stations for e-vehicles. 55,000 people work for the company. Half of them are are coal miners. It is building green infrastructure, including a wind farm.
The main office of the company is located in Kyiv. The company is owned by SCM Holdings, owned by a Ukrainian businessman, Rinat Akhmetov. He is Ukraine’s richest man. [1]
Maxim Timchenko is the Chief Executive. in 2023 he works partly from London.[2]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "ДТЕК заявив, що їх 7 енергоблоків перебувають в резерві, а не на ремонті". kosatka.media (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-02-14. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
- ↑ Sheppard, David (2023-07-30). "DTEK's Maxim Timchenko: 'If we are crushed, technically or financially, then we would lose this war'". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-07-31.