A sudden emergency response training was held at the branch “Kostromaenergo” under the leadership of General Director of IDGC of Centre Igor Makovskiy

In the framework of a working visit to the branch “Kostromaenergo”, General Director of IDGC of Centre - the managing organization of IDGC of Centre and Volga Region Igor Makovskiy conducted an unscheduled check of actions of Kostromaenergo’s personnel during massive power outages. According to the legend, a 110 kV substation was penetrated by unauthorized persons and as a result of their actions an emergency shutdown of power transformers occurred. In total, about 70 settlements were de-energized - these are more than 20 thousand inhabitants.

Kostromaenergo’s crisis management centre gathered. General Director of IDGC of Centre held a meeting of the crisis management centre on the site of Volgorechensky Distribution Zone.

In the course of the emergency training, the operating personnel restored the power supply to customers with a backup scheme, the security service, as well as specialized repair crews visited the facilities.

To eliminate the conditional emergency, there were 12 crews, 37 people and 12 vehicles involved.

In general, the branch’s team coped with the task; the interruption time of the power supply was 53 minutes. According to the observations revealed during the training, a set of relevant measures was developed.