Oil giant BP is in talks with chemicals group Ineos over the sale of the North Sea’s largest pipeline. BP’s Forties Pipeline System (FPS) transports about 450,000 barrels of oil per day on average — about 40% of UK production. The pipeline is one of the oldest in the sector, having started operating in the […]

After completing the payoff period of the RER-project the net cost of electrical energy generated by RER-based sources decreases sharply, as in most alternative energy technologies there is no fuel constituent. The installed capacity of RES generation in the world (without large HPPs) reached 390 GW by 2011, satisfying 8.2% of global electrical energy demand. […]

The Federal Arbitrazh Cort of the North-Western district annulled the resolution of the court of appeal about charging OAO IDGC of North-West 1.2 billion rubles of overpayment and 146.3 million as interest for the benefit of OAO Karelian power supply company. The Federal Arbitrazh court of the North-Western district upheld the decision of the Arbitrazh […]

Trousers and a jacket belonging to a wireman-driver of the Initinskiy distribution zone Alexey Turbin became one of the major museum specimen of the first Russian innovation center of DuPont concern. The clothes, which saved the man from the impact of an electric arc, was named here the symbol of modern technologies and international cooperation. […]

According to the estimate of the head of the fuel & energy department of Moscow Evgeniy Sklyarov, the aggregate capacity of all the power sources in the capital city is about 12.5 gigawatt. And putting photovoltaic modules on all the roofs of the city will allow to produce up to 6-7 gigawatt of electricity. The […]

Due to the worsened weather conditions 51 brigades with the total number of over 600 people of in-house personnel of MES Volga as well as the attracted subcontractor organizations and 401 units of equipment. The branch of OAO FGC UES – Main Electrical Grids of Volga have introduced the high alert regime at the facilities […]

A high alert regime was introduced in the power utilities of Sochi in order to provide the Olympic objects with electricity and to ensure timely response to emergency situations. The emergency response center, which is personally headed by Oleg Budargin, the head of FGC UES (Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System) is controlling […]

After capital repairs 72 overhead lines 35-110 kV with the total length of almost 370 km, in which 254 transmission towers and 55 km of wires have been replaced. Over 1000 km of overhead lines 0.4-10 kV have been repaired, 14 transmission towers have been installed, 1.2 thousand km of wires have been replaced. Complex […]

“The city is developing, it requires more capacity. After the reconstruction of the substation Solikamsk-Gorodskaya power reliable operation of power grids will be provided”, — the Mayor of the Town of Solikamsk Sergei Devyatkov says. The reconstruction of the substation 35/6 kV Solikamsk-Gorodskaya was carried out within the framework of the investment program of the […]

Botievskaya Wind Power Plant (OOO Wind Power, DTEK) was attended by the representatives of foreign and Ukrainian banks, export credit agencies and insurance companies. The investors gave a high estimate to the implementation of the project of the first phase of the largest wind power plant of Eastern Europe as well as familiarized themselves with […]