Hotline of power engineering specialists:
At the training centre of IDGC of Centre – Kurskenergo division in Oktyabrsky district of the Kursk region, the professional skills of crews for repair and maintenance of 0.4-10 kV distribution networks started. For the right to be called the best experts of specialized crews who have won the first places at qualifying competitions in their sections of electric networks are competing.
There are seven stages in the competition program: testing knowledge of regulatory documents on technical operation, labour protection, industrial and fire safety; release of the victim from the action of electric current, carrying out resuscitation on the dummy-simulator; replacement of a defective 10 kV insulator at a 0.4-10 kV package transformer substation and measuring the ground loop; replacement of insulated wire on a 0.4 kV overhead line (conductor) in the intersection span with a 10 kV overhead line; calculation and measurement of loop resistance "phase-zero" in the 0.4 kV network and selection of a circuit breaker for line protection; primary connection of a residential house from an operating insulated overhead line – 0.4 kV using a hydraulic lift; extinguishing of fire at a 10-0.4 kV package transformer substation.
"These are the tasks that our employees solve both during their daily activities and during liquidation of consequences of natural disasters," stresses Vyacheslav Istomin, First Deputy Director and Chief Engineer of IDGC of Centre – Kurskenergo division. "Within the framework of the competition, they will be able to show their knowledge, skills and mastery, exchange professional experience with each other, in order to subsequently use it in their current work."
The level of training of the participants of the competition is assessed by the referee commission, which included heads of production and technical services of Kurskenergo, perfection of skills and coordination of work. The winning team will receive the right to take part in professional skills competitions among branches of IDGC of Centre and IDGC of Centre and Volga Region, which will be held in June in Voronezh.
