Hotline of power engineering specialists:
In 2018, IDGC of Centre - Belgorodenergo division will spend 644 million rubles on the repair program. For the upcoming autumn-winter period, it is planned to prepare 2,236 km of 0.4-110 kV power lines, 786 transformer substations and distribution points, and to clear 428 hectares of power lines from woody and shrubby vegetation.
A large amount of work will be done at the 110 kV substation "Alekseevka District", which supplies the town of Alekseevka and the city-forming enterprise of the Group of Companies "Efko". In total, the facility feeds about 70 thousand residential customers and legal entities, including nearby settlements, a poultry farm and eight pig-breeding complexes.
In addition, repairs are planned at the 110 kV substation "Rakitnoye", providing power supply to a reinforcement plant, JSC "Moloko", CJSC "Bobravskoye", the central district hospital, a school, boiler houses and a sewerage pump station of Rakityansky district; and also at the 35 kV substations "Kretovo" and "Orlik", which feed household and agricultural consumers of a number of villages of Gubkinsky and Chernyansky districts. It is planned to perform current repair of power transformers, overhaul of bays, switches and disconnectors.
The program of 2018 included several long sections of 35-110 kV overhead lines, among them "Zhuravliki - V. Dubrava with a tap to the West", "Stary Oskol - Obukhovskaya No. 1 with a tap", "Volokonovka - Pyatnitskoye", "Alekseevka - Ostrogozhsky district I circuit", "Velikomikhaylovka - Annovka". Major repairs on the lines are made with replacement of poles, wires, insulators, ground wire and clearing of ROWs.
The repair program of the branch is aimed at ensuring the uninterrupted operation of lines and substations and preparing for the failure-free passage of the next autumn-winter period. Last year, the volume of capital investments amounted to 258.6 million rubles.
