OREANDA-NEWS. July 16, 2012. Andrey Murov, First Deputy Chairman of the OJSC FGC UES Management Board, Executive Director JSC IDGC Holding, conducted a meeting in IDGC of the North-West

Today Andrey Murov, First Deputy Chairman of the OJSC FGC UES Management Board, Executive Director JSC IDGC Holding, conducted a meeting in IDGC of the North-West, JSC within his working trip to Saint Petersburg.

Aleksey Demidov, Chairman of IDGC of the North-West, JSC Board of Directors, Sergey Titov, General Director of the Company, his deputies as well as branch directors, heads of financial divisions of the Company took part in the meeting. “Review of the current situation in branches. Perspective plans and forecasts” became the main issue on the meeting agenda.

Opening the meeting Andrey Murov (see photo) emphasized that a historically new development stage of distribution electric system began. He described the tasks set on July 10, 2012, on the joint videoconference between OJSC FGC UES and JSC IDGC Holding in relation to IDGC of the North-West, JSC regarding reliable operation of electric grids in the 2012/2013 autumn/winter season.

The Executive Director of JSC IDGC Holding commissioned the Management of IDGC of the North-West and branch directors to pay a special attention to corridor expansion and route clearance for all voltage overhead lines during the repair campaign. In this year IDGC of the North-West increases the scope of works to expand overhead line corridors by 2.9 times. In addition to that, it is planned to clear 13.5 ha of overhead line routes. To implement the repair program, the Company allocates 1.6 bln rubles.

The main task for IDGC of the North-West, JSC is still to ensure reliable and qualitative energy supply, to improve availability of energy infrastructure for consumers, Andrey Murov stressed.