OREANDA-NEWS. IDGC of Centre - Belgorodenergo division in the first half of 2014 provided electricity for about one thousand sites of individual developers in the Belgorod region. Work is being performed in the framework of the regional long-term program "Engineering improvement of micro-districts of mass individual housing construction", the scope of which is annually approved by a resolution of the Government of the Belgorod region. Belgorodenergo constructed over 70 km of power lines of 0.4-10 kV and installed 15 package transformer substations with a total capacity of 3.75 MW to power supply the plots for individual housing construction. It made it possible, in particular, to provide electricity to the expanding neighbourhood "South-west 2.2" in Belgorod.

In total, according to the plan, this year Belgorodenergo's specialists will provide electricity to 1,921 housing construction plots, constructing for a total of about 150 km of new power lines and installing around 40 new transformer substations with a total capacity of 6 MW. New networks will appear in the neighbourhoods "Razumnoye - 71", "Streletskoye - 72", "Near Igumenka - 62.25.1", "May - 6/7", "Dragunskoye - 75" and "Streletskoye - 73" (all in Belgorod district) and in the neighborhood "Rainbow" of Stary Oskol district. About 300 million rubles will be spent on the implementation of these measures.

The Program for engineering improvement of housing construction neighbourhoods has been in place in the Belgorod region since 2005, its annual scope is approved by the Regional Government. Since the program implementation start the power engineers have provided electricity to about 65,000 sites, constructed over four thousand kilometres of grids and installed more than a thousand transformer substations with a total capacity of 180 MW.