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In the address of General Director of IDGC of Centre Oleg Isaev a letter of thanks was received from Deputy Director General - Chief Engineer of PJSC "Rosseti" Alexander Faustov, in which the company expressed gratitude for the excellent organization and conduct in the Bryansk region of the interstate emergency training of PJSC "Rosseti" (Russia) and the State Production Association "Belenergo" (controls the electric grid complex of the Republic of Belarus).
The training was held on 24-26 August, in accordance with the Action Plan for 2016 for the implementation of the Agreement of 22 January 2015 on strategic cooperation between PJSC "Rosseti" and "Belenergo". The Belarusian participant was represented by the branch of RUE "Gomelenergo" (included in "Belenergo") "Gomel Electric Grids", the Russian participant was represented by the Bryansk branch of the subsidiary of "Rosseti" - IDGC of Centre. The main purpose of the event was joint working out of the algorithm of interaction of power engineers of the two countries with elimination of massive outages in border electric grid facilities.
Under the terms of the training, 25 August, as a result of a thunderstorm passing over the territory of the Bryansk region in some of its districts there were massive power outages. First responding and restoration crews of IDGC of Centre – Bryanskenergo division quickly started to liquidate consequences of the failure. For quick restoration mobile crews of RUE "Gomelenergo" joined them, and they used additional equipment, including specialized vehicles. Together, the power engineers of Russia and Belarus fully restored power supply in the affected areas with bad weather by 05 p.m. of the same day. At the end of the training the organizers noted the high professionalism of the Russian and Belarusian power engineers, they showed during the first responding and restoration operations.
"I express my gratitude to you and the teams of the executive office of IDGC of Centre, the branch of Bryanskenergo for conducting the emergency response training at a high organizational level. The performed event enhances the effectiveness of the organization of work in the field of prevention and liquidation of emergency situations in the power grid complex of PJSC "Rosseti", as well as strengthening and transition to a qualitatively new level of interaction between personnel of power grid companies of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus," stresses in his message Deputy Director General - Chief Engineer of PJSC "Rosseti" Alexander Faustov.