OREANDA-NEWS. On 02 July 2008 was announced, that under the chairmanship of the Minister of the regional development of Russia Dmitry KOZAK and under participation of the Governor of Primorsky region Sergey DARKIN the meeting on the matters of the city preparation for Summit APEC-2012 was held.

The Director General of JSC RAO UES of Russia ES of Vostok Ivan BLAGODIR has taken part at the meeting. The urgent problems of preparation for Summit APEC hosting in particular the matters of the energy supply of the facilities planned to be constructed in the Russian Island have been discussed. In the course of the meeting the Minister and the Governor of Primorye noted the special importance of the matters of the energy industry both for the preparation for Summit and for development of the region in the whole. In his turn Ivan BLAGODIR has emphasized in the report, that the energy specialists do not divide these two tasks of the energy supply of the Summit facilities and development of electric power supply of the South of Primorye, as also he has denoted the matters in the decision of which the participation of the federal center is required: at this stage Far Eastern energy industry does not possess the full volume of financial resources necessary for construction of the new generation facilities and grid infrastructure of the South of Primorsky region.

In compliance with the agreement signed between the RAO UES of Russia and Regional Administration, 6 billion rubles have already been allocated in 2008 for Primorsky energy system development. The further investment of the own funds is planned in the near future, however for the large-scale construction and reconstruction of the electric power industry financial participation of the federal budget at the expense of correcting the Federal special target program “Economic and social development of the Far East and Trans Baikal for the period till 2013 year will be needed.”

By the results of the meeting Dmitry Kozak encharged the Ministry of the regional development of Russia with a task to view in the near future all the offers of the energy specialists coordinated with Primorsky region administration and Ministry of the energy industry on correcting FTP and to enter them to the plan of budget correction for 2009-2011years.