19.03.2026
LLC “Kramatorskteploenergo” is the largest heat supply organization in the city of Kramatorsk. The enterprise ensures the operation of the Kramatorsk CHP—a strategic reserve for the region—and meets the basic heat and electricity needs of 180,700 people, including children, the elderly, and wounded military personnel in hospitals. With an installed capacity of 150 MW, the company supplies heat to apartment buildings, kindergartens, schools, and medical facilities. The company is a key component of defense capability, as it operates in a potential combat zone just 13 kilometers from the line of contact, diligently fulfilling its social obligations to the community.
Joining Energy Club is a strategic step for the enterprise to strengthen industry communications and ensure the energy resilience of the frontline region.
— “Kramatorskteploenergo” is the largest and only generating company in the remaining parts of the Donetsk region that provides the population with basic needs. We operate under conditions of increased risk, performing a critically important function for a region located in close proximity to the combat zone, — said Roman Polishchuk, Director General of LLC “Kramatorskteploenergo.”
In an interview with the Energy Club media department, the head of the enterprise shared his experience of working in frontline conditions, spoke about solutions that allow for recovery after shelling and ensure continuous energy supply, and outlined key recovery priorities and a vision of the professional community’s role in strengthening the country’s energy resilience.
— Mr. Roman, which projects or solutions implemented recently do you consider the most successful?
— Rapid restoration of damaged equipment after shelling, implementation of backup power schemes and modernization of protection systems, increasing the station’s operational autonomy under unstable infrastructure conditions. These solutions allowed us to ensure the continuity of energy supply even in critical conditions.
— What tasks are currently a priority? What does the enterprise plan to focus on in the next 1–3 years?
— The primary goal is the restoration of generating equipment capacity.
— Why did LLC “Kramatorskteploenergo” decide to join Energy Club specifically? What was decisive for you in this decision?
— The energy front. An army of power engineers, where each participant in their place is responsible for the resilience of the country’s energy system. For us, the decisive factor was the desire to be part of a professional community that shapes the future of Ukraine’s energy sector. In wartime conditions, the exchange of experience, coordination of actions, and joint development of solutions are particularly important.
— Have you previously had contacts or joint projects with Club members?
— All the best is yet to come.
— What practical benefits do you expect to receive from membership in Energy Club?
— Opportunities for partnership and attracting resources for recovery.
— What problems or issues in the company’s work or the industry as a whole do you hope to discuss or resolve within the Club?
— Increasing the resilience of the energy system during the war, mechanisms for rapid infrastructure recovery, regulatory support for enterprises in risk zones.
— Exactly how does your company plan to participate in the work of Energy Club: events, working groups, joint initiatives?
— We plan to actively involve ourselves in working groups on energy resilience issues and joint initiatives for infrastructure restoration.
— What formats of cooperation are most useful for you: exchange of experience, searching for partners, a common position on regulatory issues, analytics?
— Exchange of practical experience, searching for technological and financial partners, and a common position on regulatory changes.
— How do you see the role of business—and your company in particular—in increasing energy resilience in the current conditions?
— In survival conditions, business issues are not a priority. Resilience! At any cost…
— What joint actions or Energy Club initiatives could be most useful for the industry right now?
— Platforms for coordinating actions during crises. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not yet here, there is only today. And our today is dedicated to decisive steps for the sake of a bright future.
We have already proven that we are capable of starting up always one more time than they tried to stop us. And this is our strength, — adds Roman Polishchuk. — Therefore, the main thing is to keep in touch, share experience, and act together. Because today, the resilience of each individual is the resilience of the country’s entire energy system. And we will endure. Together.
When the energy system operates under shelling, it is no longer just about the industry, but about character. And today, it is precisely teams like the one at “Kramatorskteploenergo” that prove: Ukraine cannot be de-energized as long as there are those holding the light. The enterprise works where others stop. And every startup after shelling is not just a technical solution, but an answer to the aggressor, a sign of resilience and the ability to stand firm in a country that does not give up. After all, today energy is the front line, where decisions are made quickly and the price of an error is critical. And it is right here that a new quality of the industry is being formed: resilient, united, and capable of recovering faster than those who try to destroy it.
