DTEK eyes renewable projects in Romania
Kyiv-based private energy holding company DTEK Group is looking to some of its European neighbors’ assistance with its plans to expand into markets beyond Ukraine.
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Ukraine, Kyiv: Kyiv-based private energy holding company DTEK Group is looking to some of its European neighbors’ assistance with its plans to expand into markets beyond Ukraine.
A pair of renewable power projects in Romania will be the company’s first in a 5 GW portfolio of clean power projects its leadership holes will span Romania, Poland, Croatia and Italy. Projects are under development in DTEK unit DTEK Renewables International, based in the Netherlands. The projects, a wind farm and a solar farm, represent an investment of $163 million.
Project Ruginoasa, a 60 MW wind farm consisting of ten Vestas V162-6.0 MW turbines, will be designed and built by contractors Eximprod Engineering, Tractebel Engineering, and Electromontaj. Project Glodeni is a 53 MWp solar park in Mureș County, Romania. Ostenweg, Risen, Ideematec, Krone Solar and Energobit contributed to the project. Both projects began construction in March 2023, and transmitted power to Romanian grid operator Transelectrica January 5, 2024. Their nameplate capacity is 225,000 MWh per year.
DTEK leaders have said before that the ongoing war with Russia and the resulting economic fallout will not keep them from achieving their goals, including installing 30 GW of renewable energy inside Ukraine. The company is already the largest producer of renewable energy in the country, with 1.1 GW of installed capacity, according to a company press release. DTEK sees these projects as part of a larger effort to decarbonize Ukraine and fully integrate with the European power grid, to which the country connected in March 2022.
Source: T&D World
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