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The planned amount of financing of the repair program of IDGC of Centre - Smolenskenergo division in 2018 will amount to 331.39 million rubles. The main volume of the repair program is carried out by Smolenskenergo by own forces, which makes it possible to reduce operational costs and maintain planned physical volumes of repairs. This year, 77% of the program is planned to be implemented by the forces of its own personnel, without engaging contractors.
As it was reported at the production asset management centre, the technical re-equipment and reconstruction of the branch for the year the energy company should repair 1,973.09 km of power lines of all voltage classes and 651 transformer substations of 6-10/0.4 kV. Also, in the schedule of work for this year, clearing of ROWs from tree and shrub vegetation in an area of 1,542.34 hectares is planned.
Implementation of the repair program began already in January, but the peak of work will be at the end of the second and third quarters of the year. For the planned work at power facilities, Smolenskenergo’s specialists use modern technologies and materials, which increase the service life of equipment and reduce the cost of scheduled repairs.
Implementation of the repair program of the branch is aimed at ensuring the operability of lines and substations, failure-free passage of the autumn-winter period and a general increase in the reliability of the power grid complex in the region.