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IDGC of Centre - Smolenskenergo division summed up the results of the first half of 2017 on the energy saving and energy efficiency program. The total effect from the implementation of energy-saving measures for this period amounted to 716 thousand kWh, which exceeded the expected results by 34% (182 thousand kWh). The goal of implementing the Energy Saving and Energy Efficiency Program is to reduce costs when transmitting electricity to consumers, reducing electricity consumption for production and economic needs, which will eventually improve the company’s energy and operational efficiency.
Among the technical measures that helped save 94 thousand kWh, one should note replacement of overloaded and underloaded transformers, replacement of wires for a larger cross-section on overloaded power lines, replacement of taps of overhead lines in residential buildings with self-supporting insulated wire, replacement of transformers for energy-saving ones with reduced idling losses under the program of technical re-equipment and reconstruction.
Positive results were also given by the progress of work to identify facts of non-metered energy consumption. In the first half of the year, Smolenskenergo’s specialists identified 448 facts of non-metered consumption of electricity in the amount of 5.0204 million kWh, which allowed to increase the branch’s revenue from electricity transmission services by 12.6 million rubles, and 9 facts of noncontractual electricity consumption in the amount of 0.129 million kWh. At the present time, claims and lawsuits are in progress.
A tangible result was provided by organizational measures such as switching off transformers in low load modes in substations with two or more transformers, switching off transformers with seasonal load, equalizing phase loads in distribution networks of 0.38 kV, redistributing the main grid load by switching. The effect of these measures was 617 thousand kWh.
In the first half of the year, the branch achieved a decrease of 193 thousand kWh (2%) from the planned consumption of electricity for household needs and 248 kWh (17%) of the target figures for utility needs of substations.