OREANDA-NEWS. On September 24, 2007 Yevgeni Makarov, the General Director of “IDGC of the Center and North Caucasus”, PLC and Nikolay Denin, the Governor of Bryansk region, signed an Agreement, which shall result in large investments into the power complex of the region. The implementation of the program of developing the complex shall last until 2011, reported the press-centre of JSC “IRGC of Centre”.

The total inflow of finance into the regional power complex shall amount to 4,09 billion rubles, including 2.33 billion rubles in “Bryanskenergo”, PLC and 1,76 billion rubles in “FGC UES”, PLC. The sources of financing shall be own and attracted assets of the power companies.

Signing the contract was accounted for by the dynamic economic and social development of Bryansk region, accompanied by a stable increase of power consumption in the region. Thus, while in the year of 2000 transmission of electric power in “Bryanskenergo”, PLC lines amounted to 2 billion 982 million kWh, in 2006 the volume of electric consumption reached 3 billion 768 million kWh.

While addressing the journalists Nikolai Denin thanked the power engineers for their contribution into developing the electric grid complex of the region and for participating in the social projects of the region. The governor stressed that the development of industrial companies, construction industry or agribusiness complex is impossible without power supply. In the near future the need of the city of Bryansk in electric power will rapidly increase. Until 2010 it is planned to develop 336 hectares of the territory of the old airport. About 300 thousand square meters of housing shall be accomplished annually on this site and 480 thousand square meters in 2010. A project of building a vast housing area in Michurinsk district of Bryansk region is being presently developed. 95 hectares of the territory were allotted to the construction site, which shall be built up with houses for 6 thousand residents. The place will soon need new capacities and new electric lines. Signing the contract the region takes mutual responsibility to participate in the investment program.

Yevgeni Makarov, in his turn, noted that the grid complex will be developing not only where the old power units are located. Power engineers shall predict all the cases of possible load increase and provide the necessary reconstruction and construction within the unified national power grid. “Signing the agreement is not a dogma”, pointed out Yevgeny Makarov, “If the conditions change, the “Bryanskenergo”, PLC investment program will be amended as well. We shall organize our work in a special way so that the power industry will not hinder the development of the economics of Bryansk region”.

Large investment into the regional power complex became possible thanks to the power industry restructuring.  Implementation of the agreement shall add to increasing reliability of power supply to the consumers, increasing carrying capacity of the grids, creating conditions for connecting new and increasing capacities of the already connected consumers and preventing deficiency of capacity in the conditions of increasing electric power consumption in the region.