About

DTEK is a Ukranian holding company that operates in the energy sector through a number of subsidiaries that oversee a range of different business practices, including the production of coal and natural gas, electricity generation and renewable energy production. The company is served by a legal team that works across the company’s individual business units that span the energy, renewables and oil and gas sectors in addition to DTEK ESCP – a pioneering company in the Ukranian energy market that provides energy efficiency and energy saving services to consumers. Regarding the renewables part of the DTEK business, it is the Ukraine’s largest wind energy producer and holding company for DTEK’s assets in the renewable energy sector, which are worth a total of USD$500m. DTEK Renewables manages a portfolio including the Botievo Wind Farm – the largest wind farm in Ukraine – and among the five largest wind parks in Central and Eastern Europe. The company has also developed the Prymorskaya WPP wind electricity plant project, which is set to be the most powerful and innovative in Ukraine. Earlier this year it was announced that DTEK had raised €90m in debt financing for the construction of the first stage of the plant, with a capacity of 100MW in the Zaporizhzhya region. In 2017 DTEK Renewables implemented its first project in the solar energy sector, constructing Tryfanovska solar farm with the installed capacity of 10MW in Kherson Region. Head of legal Ivan Lyakh has been at the company for over eight years, and is responsible for managing legal support for wind energy construction projects from initiation, through planning, stakeholder buy-in, implementation and completion. The DTEK legal team also oversees negotiations with the relevant state authorities on a range of energy issues, including NERC (the regulator on general energy and energy tariffs issues), the Ukranian Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, Cabinet of Ministers, Antimonopoly Committee, local municipal and other executive authorities within the country.