Continuing heavy snowfall has led to certain failures in electricity supply system of the Moscow Area again

According to the regional operations staff, the problem with electric power supply was experienced by the inhabitants of 88 settlements of the area: in the Ramensky, Istrinsky, Orekhovo-Zuevsky, Ruzsky Districts and some other districts.

According to MOESK’s dispatch service, as at 11.00 a.m. 597 transformer substations (TS) were de-energized, including 414 subscribers’ ones, i.e. the substations, which do not belong to MOESK.

De-energized TS in the south of the Moscow Area were 40, including 29 subscribers’ ones; de-energized TS in the east of the Moscow Area were 223, including 129 subscribers’ ones; de-energized TS in the west of the Moscow Area were 288, including 229 subscribers’ ones; de-energized TS in the north of the Moscow Area were 46, including 27 subscribers’ ones.

The power specialists of MOESK and their colleagues, who come to their rescue from the central regions of Russia, restore reliable electricity supply actively.

Now the works are held by 270 emergency elimination brigades with nearby 2,000 people in total and almost 200 of special equipment units.