OREANDA-NEWS. April 25, 2008. This was told at the seminar-meeting for the reactive power at suppliers and consumers of electricity, held by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Republic of Tatarstan and JSC "Tatenergo". The actions were a part of realization of Law of Republic of Tatarstan dd., 23.03.2006 #24-ЗRT "On Approval of Program "Power –Resource – Efficiency in Republic of Tatarstan for 2006-2010" for execution of order by Cabinet of Ministers of Republic of Tatarstan dd., 28.01.2008 #47-r.

The final seminar chaired by Deputy Minister for Industry and Trade of RT Farid Tuktarov was held at "Eltehnika-Volga, Ltd" (Laishevo region of RT, Stolbishchi settlement). The attendants included managers and specialists form the power services of 90 companies and organizations, senior staff of JSC "Tatenergo", JSC "Network Company", JSC "Generation Company", JSC "RDU Tatenergo", "Eltehnika-Volga. Ltd", design institutes etc. .

The big interest rose the report by Professor of St. Petersburg State Polytechnic university L.А.Kuchumov "Specifics of Application of Devices of Compensation of Reactive Power DCRP in grids 0.4-10kV". The report by assistant to General Director of " Eltehnika, Ltd" (St. Petersburg ) E.L. Paley "Installations for Compensation of Reactive Power CRP-04 kV and CRP - 6(10) kV produced by "Eltehnika - Volga. Ltd". Also were reported the thesis by the head of service of HV lines and substations of JSC " Network Company" of Tatarstan power holding D.F. Gubaev "Control over Reactive Power - Efficient means for Enhanced Dependability and Cost Efficient Operation of the Power System and Consumers of Electricity at RT", of the head of service of electro-regimes of JSC "RDU Tatenergo" А.А. Zhilenkov "Balances of Reactive Power in Power System of Republic of Tatarstan", of economist of planning office of JSC "Tatenergo" R.R. Tagirov "Analysis of Economical Efficiency of Utilization of Static Compensation Devices at Industrial Companies".

The attention displayed at RT to issues of compensation of reactive power (CRP) is related to big growth of production and development of infrastructure of towns of Republic and big increase in the number of consumers. The problems occurred like restricted possibility to connect the entities to the power system, as well as their aging and overloaded networks. These problems are the result of unreasonable load of electrical facilities of JSC "Network Company" with reactive power.

The most efficient solution of the problem is the application of CRP's. Their installation would allow to gain additional power, and prevent power efficiency, enhance the quality of electricity supplied to consumers, and increase the capacity of the grids of RT. - Compensation of reactive power is the important step towards efficient power supply. Through control over reactive power as part of realized by the power holding "Tatenergo" Program "Reactive Power - Voltage - Losses - Economy", it is planned to unload the grids of Republic by 15% and reduce the losses by 5%.

The "Tatenergo" power holding and Ministry of Industry and Trade as part of Republicаn Program of power recourse efficiency started explanatory work in CRP. Power engineering specialists conduct meetings, seminars, involved in the meetings with managers of the entities and chief power specialists for consulting in installation of CRP, their efficiency for the companies.

The second hard stage is expected: checking at the Tatarstan Republic companies the schemes of electricity supply with issuance of recommendations for installing the devices for compensation of reactive power taking into account the quality of the feeding grid.

Technical and economical system of control over growth of consumption of reactive power will be regulated at the Federal level. It is expected that shortly will be approved the methodical instructions for calculating the step-up (step-down) ratios to tariffs for electricity transfer depending on the ration of consumption of active and reactive power for the power receiving devices at the consumers, applied for defining responsibilities of the parties in the contracts for services of electricity transfer. The meeting organizers familiarized the attendees with its project.