Vadym Utkin

Professional Experience

• Present: Advisor to the CEO, DTEK Renewables. Advises the CEO of DTEK Renewables on Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) projects. Responsibilities include project development, market integration, and partner selection. Focuses on optimizing BESS participation in Ukraine’s balancing market, bringing the company’s Polish asset to market, and contributing to the development of the regulatory and legal framework for BESS.
• 2023–2025: Strategy and Business Development Manager, DTEK.
• 2022–2023: Project Manager, DTEK Energy.
• 2019–2022: Innovation Manager, DTEK.
• 2011–2019: Executive Director, Yunasko Ukraine.

Key Projects

• Delivered Ukraine’s first utility-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), commissioned in 2020.
• Led the development of a 200 MW BESS project, launched in October 2025.
• Participated in the acquisition of a 133 MW energy asset in Poland.

Education

• National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (KPI).
• Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (kmbs).

Professional Focus

Combines business and engineering expertise to bridge technical solutions with commercial business models across Central and Eastern Europe