What is DTEK?
'''DTEK''' (Ukrainian: ДТЕК) is the largest power company in [[Ukraine]]. It started in eastern Ukraine in 2005. The company [[Electrical generator|generates electricity]] at [[Solar energy|solar]], wind and [[Thermal power plant|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 [[Electric vehicle|e-vehicles.]] 55,000 people work for the company. Half of them are are coal miners. It is building [[Green economy|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. <ref>{{Cite web|title=ДТЕК заявив, що їх 7 енергоблоків перебувають в резерві, а не на ремонті|url=https://kosatka.media/uk/category/elektroenergiya/news/dtek-zayavil-chto-ih-7-energoblokov-nahodyatsya-v-rezerve-a-ne-na-remonte|website=kosatka.media|language=ru|accessdate=2021-02-08|archive-date=2021-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214200618/https://kosatka.media/uk/category/elektroenergiya/news/dtek-zayavil-chto-ih-7-energoblokov-nahodyatsya-v-rezerve-a-ne-na-remonte|url-status=dead}}</ref> Maxim Timchenko is the Chief Executive. in 2023 he works partly from London.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sheppard|first=David|date=2023-07-30|title=DTEK’s Maxim Timchenko: ‘If we are crushed, technically or financially, then we would lose this war’|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/7ed09ccf-e9f5-4bcc-acb8-08653e593152|access-date=2023-07-31}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Companies of Ukraine]] [[Category:2005 establishments in Europe]] [[Category:Energy companies]]