FGC UES (a part of Rosseti Group) has started preparing a new repair campaign for 2017, with the key phase beginning after current autumn-winter period. In 2016, FGC UES conducted extensive repair and renovation arrangements. The total investment amounted to about 10.7 billion rubles.

According to the results of 2016, reliability rates remain high. Accident rate is at the lowest level over the past five years.

During the repair campaign the company made a comprehensive survey of transmission lines and substation equipment and intensified technological violations and equipment failures analyses.

74 autotransformer phases, 130 compressors, about 2,000 switches and more than 12,000 disconnecters were renovated. About 42,000 ha of line routes were cleared, over 104,000 insulators and 981 km of ground-wire were replaced.

Emergency reserve is 100% complemented. Substations are equipped with diesel generators with a total capacity of 121.4 MW.

Over 660 emergency prevention trainings and 90 simulated exercises were conducted, in some of which representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and authorities participated.

The certificate of operational readiness for autumn-winter period was obtained in due time.

For 2017, it is scheduled to conduct a comparable amount of repair work, with the main electricity network equipment to be fully repaired before October 1, 2017.

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