The authorities of the Moscow region approved of the draft regulations according to which the gas for the needs of the population of the region will be delivered by three suppliers instead of one, which will enable mitigating risks associated with the gas supply irregularities. Earlier the Moscow region has only one company which supplied […]

Electrical Energy Production in Russian Federation Rises by 1.3% for 9 Months The production of electrical energy in the Russian Federation in January-September 2011 has risen by 1.25% from the same period last year, to comprise 760.7 billion kWh, according to the materials of the Central dispatcher control of the fuel and energy complex. The […]

Gazprom is to put the gas pipeline Nord Stream into operation on November 8. This was declared by Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller at the meeting with the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. “The construction of the first line has been completed, now the commissioning and start-up are being carried out […]

The new regional energy-saving program which has started in Primorye presupposes that the boiler houses in the region will start running on coal instead of oil fuel According to the administration of the Primorskiy Territory, at present they are executing a long-term target-oriented program “Energy-saving and energy efficiency raising in the Primorskiy Territory” which involves […]

The inrush in the gas pipeline occurred in the Kaluga region in the vicinity of the town of Maloyaroslavets, the head of the press-service of the central regional office of the Emergency Ministry Darya Korovina reported. The emergency situation took place at 16.10 Moscow time on Thursday last week at the gas pipeline branch leading […]

The specialists of the Southern power grids OAO Magadanenergo connected all the customers to the overhead power transmission line 35 kV Tsentralnaya-Avtotek, the overhead line 110 kV Tsentralnaya-Olskaya, and the overhead line 35 kV Olskaya-Klepka. Today a part of the city of Magadan was left without electricity due to rough weather. Strong winds and wet […]

Today at 12.10 as a result of a technological failure the Sakhalin state district power plant had a fall in its operating capacity. This caused an energy shortfall in the Sakhalin power system and as well as the restrictions in the power supply to the customers of the island. The causes of the incidents are […]

OAO Saratovenergo (the power supplier in the Saratov region) took out a 400 million rubles loan on overdraft from OAO Gazprombank says the company statement. Saratovenergo is going to spend these funds on financing the company’s economic activities. The loan interest rate makes up 5% per annum on the outstanding balance of the loan. The […]

Russian Power Grid Companies are having a hot season: the power engineers are preparing for the coming fall-winter season. One of the factors which predetermines a successful ‘wintering’ is a power facilities maintenance overhaul carried out in due time. For instance the press-service of Ryazanenergo reports on September 19 2011 that within the framework of […]

The BioGasEnergoStroy corporation is planning to obtain the loan of 750 million euro which would be spent on the construction of bio gas power plants. The corporation intends to spread its activities all through the post-Soviet territories – around Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and other CIS-countries as well as the Baltic states. At present Russia has […]