01.01.2011

As at 08:00 a.m. of 1 January, the specialists of MOSESK and other companies of IDGC Holding assisting them in restoration of electricity supply of the Moscow Area reduced the number of the disconnected transformer substations to 415.

Forty-five emergency and restoration brigades worked during the whole New Year's night and are still restoring electricity supply now.

There are no disconnected consumers in Northern Electric Grids. Only 106 transformer substations remain without voltage supply in the Southern Electric Grids in the Ramensky District. The number of the disconnected transformer substations in the Eastern Electric Grids is 41. The most stringent situation is still observed in the West of the Moscow Area, where 268 transformer substations remain without electricity.

The disconnected power as a whole in the Company equals 11.4 MW. Electricity is still not supplied to 96 inhabited localities.

The managers of JSC “MOESK” were at their workplaces at 00:00 of the New Year’s Day. In particular, Alexander Yakunin, Deputy General Director of JSC “MOESK” - Director of the Western Electric Grids together with Boris Gromov, Governor of the Moscow Area personally supervised the course of restoration works in the village of Kurovo in the Ruzsky District of the Moscow Area on the New Year's night, and was in his service car on his way to one of the villages at 00:00 of the New Year’s Day.

Let us remind that the global power cuts in the Moscow Area and other regions of the Central Federal District started on the night of Sunday, 26 December. The ice storm happened in Moscow and the Moscow Area, and power lines failed under the weight of ice and wet snow.