MRSK Tsentra : In the year of ecology Belgorod branch of IDGC of Centre to spend 5.4 million rubles on the implementation of environmental protection measures

In accordance with the approved by the Board of Directors of IDGC of Centre Program for the implementation of environmental policy, in 2017 IDGC of Centre - Belgorodenergo division will spend 5.4 million rubles on the implementation of 37 environmental measures. In 2016 the branch 'Belgorodenergo' spent 3.7 million rubles on the implementation of the Program of environmental policy, performed 32 activities.

Among the main activities carried out are the performance in the framework of industrial environmental monitoring instrumentation measuring of the level of contaminating substances in wastewater and at stationary sources of polluting emissions, measurements of noise and electromagnetic fields were carried out in sanitary protection zones of 90 distribution substations. All the measurements did not identify the excess of maximum permissible values. In addition, the proportion of vehicles run on fuel with a higher environmental class Euro-3 and above increased to 67%.

The branch 'Belgorodenergo' pays much attention to the treatment of industrial and consumer waste. Work on the equipment of waste storage sites continued in 2016 - special containers for storage of spent mercury lamps and oiled waste were installed. For equipment of places for accumulation of mercury-containing lamps 25 demercurization sets were purchased. All places of accumulation of production and consumption waste comply with the applicable standards and requirements.

In June 2016 'Belgorodenergo' successfully passed the audit of the Office of Rosprirodnadzor in the Belgorod region in terms of compliance with waste management requirements, the result of which was the acquisition by IDGC of Centre of the license to operate on the transportation of waste of I-IV classes of hazard.

In accordance with the requirements of environmental legislation all facilities of negative impact at the end of 2016 were put on state account, all the facilities of 'Belgorodenergo' were assigned to the third category, has a slightly negative impact on the environment.

The priority is taken by the technical measures that make it possible not only to improve the reliability and safety of energy supply, reduce the failure rate during the operation, but also decrease the impact on the environment. So, in 2016 32 oil circuit breakers were replaced with vacuum and sulfur hexafluoride, which reduced the number of used transformer oil. Oil receivers and drainage devices, and other oil-filled equipment was repaired.

About 725 km of power lines of 0.4-35 kV in the habitat and nesting of birds were constructed and reconstructed with the use of self-supporting insulated wire (SIW), which protects birds from electric injuries. 117 bird anti-collision barriers were installed on power lines with uninsulated wire.

In addition, thirty-three branch staff were trained and improved their skills in the field of environmental protection and waste management.