MRSK Tsentra : IDGC of Centre starts implementing the main activities of the repair program

IDGC of Centre begins to implement the main activities of the repair program - one of the key components of the preparation for the season of autumn-winter peak loads. They start at the end of the next autumn-winter period, when it becomes possible to take out of service the equipment that needs to be repaired, and finish by the beginning of October. The bulk of the work falls on the summer.

According to the plan, during the year IDGC of Centre will carry out a comprehensive repair of 162 substations of 35-110 kV, overhaul 4,408 transformer substations and about 15,800 kilometres of overhead lines (conductors) of 0.4-110 kV. 11,4 thousand hectares of ROWs of overhead lines of 0.4-110 kV will be cleared of tree and bush vegetation.

The largest number of 35-110 kV substations, according to the plan, will be repaired in the branches of Belgorodenergo (28) and Tverenergo (27). Kostromaenergo and Kurskenergo plan to repair 23 substations. The largest volumes of overhaul of 0.4-110 kV overhead lines are planned in the branches of Kurskenergo (2.5 thousand kilometres), Belgorodenergo (2.3 thousand kilometres) and Smolenskenergo (2.1 thousand kilometres).

The large and significant facilities, which this year will be overhauled, are the 110/35/10 kV substation 'KPD' in the Kostroma region, 'Red Yaruga' in the Belgorod region, 'Kommash' in the Orel region, 'Mednovsky Water Intake' in the Tver region, 'Oboyan' in the Kursk region and Shestikhino in the Yaroslavl region; the 110/6kV substations 'Trubnaya-2' in the Lipetsk region and 'Vysokoye' in the Bryansk region.

The Kostroma substation 'KPD' is located in the Volgorechensky industrial park zone, it feeds a new workshop for production of medium-diameter pipes for the oil and gas industry 'Gazpromtrubinvest' and a drilling rig production plant of the American company 'National Oilwell Varco'. The substation 'Red Yaruga' provides electricity for a total of about 15,000 consumers in the Belgorod region. The feeding centre 'Kommash' supplies the capacity to JSC 'Mtsensk factory of utility engineering' - a large manufacturer of road and utility equipment.

The substation 'Mednovsky Water Intake' supplies electricity to the same name water intake, which supplies water to the city of Tver. The Kursk sustation 'Oboyan' feeds Oboyan district with a population of 35,000 people, including ZAO 'Isoplit', one of the main producers of wood boards in Central Russia and a large seed-growing enterprise of ZAO 'Artel'. One of the largest consumers of the substation 'Shestikhino' is the 110 kV substation of LLC 'Transneft-Baltika', which provides operation of the main oil pipelines of the Baltic Pipeline System. Repair of the substation 'Trubnaya-2' is carried out with the purpose of providing power supply to the newly constructed 'Zvezdny' micro-district of the city of Lipetsk. The Bryansk substation 'Vysokoye' powers a section of the oil pipeline 'Druzhba'.

Also in 2017, a number of IDGC of Centre's branches will repair important transmission lines for regional power systems. In Kurskenergo, the work will be carried out on the 110 kV 'Sadovaya-Lesnaya' overhead line, which provides power supply to the central part of Kursk. Lipetskenergo's specialists in order to increase the reliability of power supply in Yeletsky and University micro-districts in the city of Lipetsk will repair the 110 kV overhead line 'Tsentrolit-left.

The Smolensk branch of IDGC of Centre will repair two 110 kV overhead lines №103 and №104 'Smolenskaya TPP-2 - Liteinaya', which feed OJSC 'Yartsevsky Foundry Plant' - the leading enterprise in the region for the production of cast iron. And the branch 'Yarenergo' will repair the 110 kV overhead line 'Shestikhinskaya-1', involved in the power supply of the most significant transit facilities of the oil and gas industry of Rybinsk district of the Yaroslavl region.

The implementation of IDGC of Centre's repair program will ensure the quality and reliability of electricity supply to consumers in 11 constituent entities of the Central Federal District, and will significantly contribute to the smooth and stable operation of the company's electric grid facilities in these regions during the period of autumn-winter peak loads.