Year 2020, a year that marks the 90th anniversary of Donbasenergo, is drawing to a close. Just before we greet the New Year, we would like to look back at our wins, some of the events that keyed the past year, and those that will undoubtedly play a defining role in 2021.

Sloviansk TPP has operated at its peak in the anniversary year. Electricity generation this year exceeded 3 billion kWh.

The plant team managed to bring the share of Ukrainian coal belonging to the gas group to 70%. We receive this resource from Mine No. 1-3 'Novogrodiska', the partner we trust. Since they began working with Donbasenergo, the miners from that coal mine have yielded their one-millionth ton of coal by the shortest amount of time possible - 11 months.

Every month, Donbasenergo met its tax, duties and other mandatory payments obligations in full and on time. The company's 2020 deductions to all-level budgets are expected to exceed UAH 110,000,000 in 2020.

The DE Trading team, a leader in Ukraine's electricity trading market, has reached almost 7 billion kWh of sales in all market segments this year. DE Trading is now in trading with 52 domestic contractors and export-import trade relations with 6 contractors of the European Union with regard to the purchase and sale of electrical energy.

In 2020, the company's success, performance and appropriate level of management systems in compliance with international ISO standards were proven following an integrated audit of quality, occupational health and safety, and environmental protection systems. Donbasenergo was awarded certificates of conformity with ISO 9001, IS0 45001 and IS0 14001 standards for the management systems it had implemented.

We have again proved that our company is among the leaders in Ukraine in adopting eco technologies in its production operations. In November, Donbasenergo was honored with an ECO Oscar, the Ecotransformation 2020 green change stakeholder award. The win for the company came from a unique product, the construction insulating fireproofing mixture Perlizol, developed by Donbasenergospetsremont.

Sloviansk TPP has successfully rolled out a unified automated system to manage its main production assets, Smart EAM. All maintenance and repair management processes are automated now, and every item of equipment is integrated into a single information system, from repair campaign planning to procurements.

In the passing year, the Cabinet of Ministers decided to put the construction project for the Power Unit 6 of Sloviansk TPP on the list of the Government's top-priority investment projects for 2020-2023. This is a weighty triumph for Donbasenergo, and it brings the start of the joint project with Dongfang El Int. Corp. closer.

Our Chinese partners helped deliver a large-scale humanitarian cargo to Ukraine this year. In April 2020, Donbasenergo delivered 12 tons of personal protective equipment from Chengdu, China, through the Recovery & Development Foundation. Most of the cargo was handed over to the Donetsk Regional Civil-Military Administration to protect the population and medical personnel working in the face of the dangerous disease.

The Recovery & Development Foundation also purchased advanced laboratory equipment for the Sloviansk Central District Hospital, including for anti-epidemic measures.

Donbasenergo's corporate products were again highly rated by the jury of the "Best Corporate Media of Ukraine" contest in the outgoing year. Our Generation newspaper and Calendar "My Work is Like High Up in the Sky!" were awarded the Grand Prize of the contest, and the company's annual report and Photo album "Sloviansk TPP 1954-2019: History of Wins" came in second place.

Donbasenergo continues to work closely with the community of Mykolaivka in which the Yuvileyny Residential Complex and the Church of St. Spiridon it funded are being built. Every project we have done helps the town and people in it survive the ongoing economic challenges in the east of Ukraine and encourages the Donbas region to revive.

The work we did in 2020 sets a firm basis for the priority areas of Donbasenergo's growth in 2021, a year that does not look easy in terms of the challenges ahead of us, but our tight-knit team will meet them all for sure!