A power outage occurred today, on September 12 2012 at 8:50 Moscow time at the international airport of Sheremetyevo. It was connected with the voltage surge at one of the transformer substations of the Northern Power Grids Company (the branch of OAO MOESK). The Sheremetyevo Airport was promptly switched to the emergency power sources. This […]

It is planned to replace the diesel power plants with the mini hydro power plants or hybrid energy sources such as wind-diesel complexes and wind-solar power plants. The transition towards hybrid power plants and mini hydro power plants will help the region to considerably reduce the cost of energy carriers. The International Financial Corporation have […]

OOO Gazprom mezhregiongaz Vologda resumed the deliveries of natural gas to the two enterprises belonging to OOO Vologda Poultry Keeping Center: OAO Poultry Plant Ermakovo and ZAO Vologda Poultry Center. Before that they used to be deprived of the gas supply due to the multimillion debts. At the end of last week the crisis situation […]

Alexery Miller has been recognized the most influential person in the fuel and energy complex in Russia. During the first working week of September the Russian Agency of Political and Economic Commucations (APEC) published the latest rating, which evaluates the degree of the influence of key persons in the fuel and energy complex of the […]

After more than two-year break Transnefteproduct resumed the Ai-92 gasoline deliveries to Kazakhstan from the Ufa-based group of plants belonging to Bashneft via the oil products pipeline division Ufa-Omsk. Fuel transfer is being carried out through the pipeline operation control station “Petropavlovsk”, which is situated in the responsibility zone of OAO Uraltransnefteproduct. There is an […]

The area of the fire comprised about 120 square meters. According to the preliminary estimate the financial damage is not going to exceed one million rubles. The cause of the fire outbreak within the cylinder part of the containment was the sparks from the welding machine, which led to the smoldering combustion and subsequent inflammation […]

Ukraine and Latvia are curtailing the projects in the field of biogas industry development, which have received no promised governmental support, while the government of Russia has commenced the construction of 30 large biogas stations. According to the Latvian agency «Latvijas Reitingi», in 2011 the production of electricity from the renewable energy sources, mostly from […]

Since September 10 2012 the commissions responsible for admitting the production units to the autumn-winter season start their work in the branch of OAO IDGC of Urals – Permenergo. The first to undergo the inspection of their preparedness towards the winter season are Bereznikovskiye and Ocherskiye electrical grids. The preparation of the power grid complex […]

Till the end off September 2012 the brigades of Armavir power grids are to carry out the testing of all the high-voltage equipment, the current maintenance of the power transformer 4 MVA and the voltage transformer 35 kV at the substation Glubokaya. There is also a plan to carry out the capital maintenance of 9 […]

On Wednesday morning the Greenpeace activists and a couple of “polar bears” blocked the entrance to the office of Gazprom in Moscow, creating an imitation of Arctic nature reserve opposite the building. A couple of dozens activists from Russia, Germany, Austria, Poland and Hungary created a new Arctic nature reserve near the office of Gazprom […]