OREANDA-NEWS. IDGC of Centre summarized the implementation of the Environmental Policy Program (hereinafter the Program) in the first half of the year. In the Year of Ecology in Russia, the company realizes more than 50 environmental measures in the regions of its activity (11 subjects of the Central Federal District), more than 40 million rubles are planned to be allocated for this purpose.

The Program pays much attention to ensuring an environmentally balanced development of the electric power industry. Technical measures, in particular, are aimed at this. In the first half of the year, the company decommissioned and handed over to a specialized organization for recycling and disposal 126 items of equipment containing substances harmful to the environment. 15 oil circuit breakers were replaced with vacuum and gas-insulated ones, which, unlike oil-filled equipment, are fireproof, have increased reliability and durability indicators, higher technical parameters. The number of motor vehicles operating on environmentally clean fuel was increased with 109 vehicles.

At electric grid facilities of IDGC of Centre, over 200 km of bare wire were replaced with self-supporting insulated wire (SIW). This measure makes it possible to reduce the cut-off area of ROWs (done to prevent failures involving falling trees on power lines), and also to protect against the impact of electric current on birds. For these purposes, the power engineers also installed 1,980 special bird protection devices on poles of power lines.

Work continued on monitoring the amount of pollutants at stationary sources of emissions and in the sanitary protection zones of production sites, improvement and planting of greenery in the territory of enterprises. With the purpose of protection and rational use of water resources, specialists of IDGC of Centre’s branches regularly conducted instrumental quality control of produced underground and sewage. The further implementation of a set of measures for the protection and rational use of land continued, including, in particular, reclamation of disturbed land cover.