In 2019, DTEK invested over UAH 772 million in production at Dobropilske and Bilozerske Mine Groups. Those funds were used to purchase mining equipment and provide coal mining for domestic thermal power plants.
Strengthening energy independence: DTEK allocated more than UAH 772 million to support production at Dobropillya mines
During the year, UAH 402 million was allocated of the total amount for the purchase of new cleaning and tunneling equipment as well as overhaul of the existing equipment. Another UAH 166 million was allocated for the overhaul of major mine workings; UAH 73 million was allocated for the underground transport chain (electric locomotives for transporting people and goods, conveyors for the delivery of coal and rock).
In 2019, DTEK Dobropolyeugol mines began to extract coal from 4 new working faces, and the company invested more than UAH 375 million in their preparation. The company also bought 3 shearers for coal mining and a mechanized complex for preparation of production – 2 roadheaders. All came from Corum, the Ukrainian machine builders.
“Coal mining requires continuous financial investment in the purchase of equipment, its repair, maintenance of technological processes. For example, in order to prepare only one meter of a major mine working (a tunnel at a depth of hundreds of meters), it is necessary to spend more than UAH 45 thousand. And DTEK constantly invests money to support coal mining at the enterprises of Velyke Dobropillya,” Yurii Cherednychenko, General Director of DTEK Dobropolyeugol, said. “As a result of this investment, our mines produced 4,200,000 tons of coal last year, increasing the result of 2018 by 100,000 tons. And our tunnelers, who are preparing new longwalls for production, prepared more than 12 kilometers of new mine workings in 2019. We are confident that the country should use the maximum of domestic resources and not depend on the supply of fuel and electricity from abroad. This is the basis for Ukraine’s energy independence, and jobs for Ukrainians, and taxes for the regions.”