OREANDA-NEWS. The total costs of DTEK for sustainable development projects, including social partnerships with towns where the Company operates, health and safety, environmental protection, and maintenance of social assets totalled UAH 1,533.3 billion in the first half of 2013. Most of the expenditures are planned for the second half of the year.

Social investments into the development of regions where DTEK operates totalled UAH 43.5 million. Until the end of the year, it is planned to invest about UAH 144 million in social projects, including UAH 120 million as part of the three-year Social Partnership Strategies with regions where the Company operates and about UAH 24 million into the Development Fund of Luhansk Region.

“We began actively working on two new areas of social partnership in 2013 - the formation of the business environment and the increased participation of communities. To this end, we created Local Development Agencies in 14 towns. These agencies will deal directly with the attraction of investments in these towns and search for new opportunities for their residents. We decided to develop projects for three industrial parks in regions where we operate (near Sverdlovsk/Rovenki, Pavlograd, and Burshtyn). As a result, we should come to the point when the towns become as independent from big business as possible, and are able to develop successfully and sustainably on their own,” said Alexander Tolkach, DTEK's External Affairs Director.