OREANDA-NEWS. October 22, 2009. M.Slobodin the President of “Integrated Energy Systems” Closed Company paid a working visit to the Republic of Komi.

In the morning Mikhail Slobodin held a meeting with Vladimir Torlopov the Head of Komi Republic. During the meeting they discussed the issues of debit debts of energy resources consumers to IES-Holding Companies, and the pilot project on energy efficiency increase in Vorkuta. This IES-Holding’s project will be submitted for consideration by the working group on energy efficiency improvement under Dmitry Medvedev the President of the Russian Federation.

V.Torlopov stated the interest in the working group’s support and in his turn promised any possible assistance.

According to Mikhail Slobodin if “Energy Efficient City” project is implemented Vorkuta city “will become an example of how the quality level of energy resources consumptions can be improved”.

IES-Holding President called the situation with consumers’ debts in Komi Republic as “point-critical”. He estimated positively the interaction with the Region’s government and expressed hope that by jointly efforts the situation with payments for the housing and maintenance services will be significantly improved.

The same day IES-Holding President took a flight to Vorkuta where he held a meeting on “Energy Efficient City” project. On a meeting they discussed the required arrangements to establish a single power supply company under the aegis of the holding incorporating generation, transportation and sale of energy resources to consumers. Special attention was given to development of actions focused on improvement of energy efficiency of power and housing and maintenance sectors of Vorkuta. In particular in order to solve a problem of so called “left-off dwelling” it is proposed to increase the density of heat load and to raise the efficiency of buildings’ heating systems, also by active use of modern heat insulation materials. The project also implies the reconstruction of heat supply and pump stations, partial replacement of heating networks on the basis of advanced technologies.

The Program shall be implemented within 5 years. Under preliminary estimations 1321mln rubles are required to finance the project. In this case the annual effect from the project implementation will make about 22mln rubles.