OREANDA-NEWS. IDGC of Centre summed up the implementation of the repair program for the first half of 2016. The company performed a number of key activities of the document in excess of targets.

The power company carried out comprehensive repair of 51 substations of 35-110 kV. It refurbished 2,577 transformer substations of 0.4-10 kV and about 7.6 thous. km of overhead and cable power lines of 0.4-110 kV lines, which is 107% and 103% of the plan on an accrual basis. It cleared 7,568 hectares and extended 1,045 hectares of ROWs of overhead lines (107% and 105% of the planned indicators on an accrual basis, respectively). About 860 million rubles were spent to implement these measures.

In total, during the year IDGC of Centre plans to carry out comprehensive repair of 185 substations of 35-110 kV, renovate 4,519 transformer substations of 0.4-10 kV and about 16.5 km of overhead and cable power lines of 0.4-110 kV, clear 11,297 hectares and extend 2,821 hectares of ROWs along overhead lines. It is planned to spend about 1.95 billion rubles on the repair campaign.

Among the large and important facilities, at which this year the comprehensive overhaul will be conducted, are the 110/10 KV Substations "Poultry" and "North" in the Belgorod region, "Polpinskaya" and "Lopandino" in the Bryansk region, "Progress" and "Compressor" in the Kursk region, "Yartsevo-1" in the Smolensk region; the 110/35/10 kV Substations "South" in the Kostroma region, "Komsomolskaya" and "Algasovskaya" in the Tambov region; the 110/6 kV Substations "Energoremont" in the Bryansk region, "North" and "West" in the Yaroslavl region; the Tver 110/35/10 kV Substations Red Hill and 110/10 kV "NPS Torzhok".

The Substation "Poultry" supplies electricity to the Poultry Processing Plant "Prioskolie" and sites for fattening birds in Novy Oskol district of the Belgorod region. Here the work has already been completed. The Substation "North" is the main power source for the international airport "Belgorod", the industrial park "North" and the bakery "Golden Spike". The power centre "Polpinskaya" feeds OJSC "Bryansk factory of steel structures and technological equipment", which produces equipment for the needs of the oil and gas industry, the Substation "Lopandino" - Lopandinsky Sugar Factory. One of the biggest consumers of the Substation "Energoremont" is the plant "Turboremont", specializing in the manufacture of spare parts and repair of components of gas compressor units for the needs of PJSC "Gazprom".

The Kursk Substations "Progress" and "Compressor" provide electricity to equipment of gas compressor stations of main gas pipelines, feeding the "blue fuel" in the neighbouring Belgorod, Orel and Bryansk regions, as well as through Ukraine to Western Europe. The Smolensk Substation "Yartsevo-1" supplies electricity to PJSC "Yartsevo Foundry" and one of the largest enterprises in the domestic textile industry - Yartsevo Cotton Mill.