OREANDA-NEWS. June 26, 2012. Nikolay Shvets, General Director of Interregional Distribution Grid Companies Holding (IDGC Holding) was elected as a Chairman of Council of Non-Commercial Partnership "CIRED National Organising Committee. Electric Power Distribution" by a solid vote on General Assembly in Saint Petersburg on July 20, 2012.

At the same time IDGC Holding and all its subsidiaries became fully legitimate members of Russian Committee of CIRED, a the major international association with a head office in Brussels, which is connecting distribution grid companies from 40 countries. 

Previously, the Interregional Distribution Grid Companies have made the decision to join the CIRED on Board of Directors. Decision of IDGC Holding entrance to CIRED was made by its Board of Directors according to Directive of the Russian Government.

The participation of the distribution grid companies in such authoritative international organization (see the reference below) resulting from necessity to join up-to-date global achievement and advanced design in engineering, construction and exploitation of distribution grid. This participation is the logical move towards integration of the Russian distribution grid companies to global electricity conjuncture.

In the near future members of the Partnership will approve a detailed plan of Russian Committee participation in CIRED work. This work includes organization of technical conferences and panels in RF area, official reports in internationalworkshops and forums abroad, exchange of specialists and methods, training and consulting, participation in joint and special-order research and advanced development and design and development work, other areas of focus.