In the first three months 2011 Vostokenergo generating company has supplied 5,067 mln kWh to the power market. It is an increase of 825 mln kWh or 19.5% YoY. It was possible to reach such results due to 4% growth of demand for electricity in the first quarter of 2011 YoY and the competitive ability improvement of the declared units, their availability for the load, and, as a result, demand for these units on the market. Electricity cost reduction was facilitated by the power unit retrofitting (year to date, Vostokenergo runs 4 upgraded power units) and timely repair campaigns on other units.
During the three months of this year TPPs of Dneproenergo supplied 4,246.9 mln kWh of electricity to the power market, showing increase of 575.7 mln kWh YoY. Productive electricity supply grew by 15.7 %.
Year to date, the company carried out scheduled repairs of 7 power units, repairs of 3 more power units are in progress. By the end of the year Dneproenergo plans to have repaired the total of 17 power units.
In January–March 2011, DTEK electricity supplying companies (Service Invest and DTEK Energougol ENE) purchased 3.6 TWh from the Wholesale Electricity Market, which is 8% more, YoY.
Since the beginning of the year Service Invest has launched several large investment projects: construction of Airport-110/6 kV substation as a part of preparation to Euro 2012, construction of Yubileynaya-110 kV substation and 35 kV overhead transmission line for Yubileynaya mine (DTEK Pavlogradugol), retrofitting of 110 kV outdoor switch gear at Druzhkovka-110 kV and Davydovka-Severnaya-110 kV substations. Implementation of these projects, requiring the total amount of UAH178m, will improve reliability of electricity supply to industrial consumers and adjacent license holders.
Over the first three months of 2011 DTEK Energougol ENE has implemented the project on opening an e-shop for electricity retail sales to households. Furthermore, DTEK Energougol ENE has completed the construction of two 6 kV cable power transmission lines from Novo-Tsentralnaya substation to secure electricity supply for a future water park in Donetsk, which is intended to be built for EURO 2012.