OREANDA-NEWS. Lugansk Oblast faced the threat of blackout. Still, today nine mines have come back to normal operation and continue coal mining. The only de-energised mine is Krasny Partizan Mine.

Dolzhanskaya-Kapitalnaya, Kharkovskaya, Tzentrosoyuz, Frunze, Vakhrusheva, 81-ya Kievskaya, Dzerzhinskogo and Kosmonavtov mines operate as normal and continue coal mining.

Sverdlova Mine has partially resumed work as one out of three mine faces is out of operation due to lack of voltage. The works are going on to restore electricity.

Krasny Partizan Mine is fully de-energised. The plant neither carries out any mining operations nor takes actions to sustain the mine (pumping out water and ventilating mine tunnels).

Yesterday, on 26 July, nine mines in Lugansk Oblast (DTEK Rovenkianthracite and DTEK Sverdlovanthracite) had to suspend coal mining and evacuate 3,000 miners due to a threat of blackout. The coal mining operations were suspended and people were evacuated to the surface because of the damage of two high-voltage transmission lines owned by NEC Ukrenergo in the course of military operations.

Luganskaya TPP, which is a part of Rinat Akhmetov's energy holding, remained the only source of electricity in Lugansk Oblast from 12.30 pm to 5.32 pm. The electricians of Luganskaya TPP and NEC Ukrenergo managed to stabilise the situation due to complex switching operations in the energy system, which helped to avoid electricity cut off in Lugansk and Donetsk oblasts. However, hostilities must be stopped in order to restore the damaged electricity lines.

DTEK is the largest energy company in Ukraine. It is part of the financial and industrial group System Capital Management (SCM). The shareholder of the group is Rinat Akhmetov. Maxim Timchenko is the Chief Executive Officer of DTEK. Currently, DTEK employs 140,000 people.

Electricity is the core product of DTEK. The assets portfolio is represented by 10 thermal power plants and two combined heat and power plants with 18 GW of total installed capacity; one wind farm with the designed installed capacity of 200 MW; five electricity distribution enterprises, which provide services to over 5.2 million customers - both individuals and legal entities; 31 mines and 13 coal-processing plants; oil and gas extraction assets.

In 2013, DTEK's enterprises generated 53 TWh and purchased 56.9 TWh of electricity for further supply to consumers; coal output equalled 41.4 million tonnes and coal processing amounted to 29.3 million tonnes. DTEK exports electricity to six countries and coal to 36 countries worldwide. DTEK's consolidated revenues in 2013 amounted to UAH 92.8 billion; the Company's net profit totalled UAH 3.3 billion.