Restoration of reliable electricity supply in the Moscow Area to be continued on 11 January

The repair and emergency elimination works aimed to liquidate the consequences of technological failures in the 6 – 10 kV distribution electric grid will be continued on 11 January 2011 in order to ensure the required reliability parameters of electricity supply for the consumers of the region. 

Scheduled repairs will require de-energization of consumers’ devices in a number of settlements, in particular: in the south of the Moscow Area in the Ramensky (villages Biserovo, Slobodino, Grigorovo, Korobovo); Domodedovsky (settlement Belye Stolby, villages Pushkino, Kutuzovo, Stepanchikovo, etc.) and Podolsky (villages Kut’ino, Lukovnya, Alexandrovo, Valishchevo) Districts; in the north - in the Klinsky (villages Spetsovo, Lukino, Novikovo, Dyatlovo, Annenka, Petrovka, Dorshevo, Isakovo, etc.), Solnechnogorsky (villages Kholmy, Bexverkhovo, Bunteikha, Starodalnya) and Mytishchensky (villages Borodino, Khovrino, and cluster home communities) Districts; in the west - in the Odintsovsky (settlements Pronskoe, Sharapovo, Klin, Yastrebki, Mart’anovo, Spasskoe, etc.); Istrinsky (villages Ogarkovo, Gornevo, Ulievo, Bochkino, Zhityanino, Remyaniki, etc.) and Ruzsky (a part of station Ruza, stations Koptsevo, Rakitino, Rybushkino, Ivantsevo, etc.) Districts. Switching-off is planned from 8:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m.

The employees of JSC “MOESK” ask the citizens not to worry and to keep peace. You may ask questions via the round-the-clock multichannel telephone number of the “Light Line” of Moscow United Electric Grid Company 8-800-700-40-70 and via the telephone numbers of the temporary information centers created in each electric grid district of JSC “MOESK” (please find the contact information on the website http://www.moesk.ru).

JSC “Moscow United Electric Grid Company” (JSC “MOESK”) is the Russian Federation’s largest regional distribution grid company (DGC), the share holding (51 %) of which is owned by “Interregional Distribution Grid Companies Holding”, Open Joint-Stock Company (IDGC Holding, OJSC), which manages IDGCs/DGCs using corporate methods (through Boards of Directors). The shares of IDGC Holding, OJSC are owned by more than 330 thousand shareholders. The State is the supervising shareholder. It owns 53% of shares.

The labor team of IDGC Holding’s companies includes more than 190 thousand qualified specialists. Moscow United Electric Grid Company attending the majority of consumers in Moscow and the Moscow Area employs 15,755 people.
The main shareholders of JSC “MOESK”, besides IDGC Holding, OJSC: the Group of Companies “Gazprom” (31 %) and the Group of Companies of Moscow Government (about 6 %). More than 8 % of MOESK’s shares are in free float.

The company includes more than 607 high-voltage feeding centers of 35/110/220 kV voltage with the total power of 43,713 MVA. The total length of 35-220 kV power lines is 15,590 km; high-voltage cable lines of 35-110-220-500 kV voltage – 1,408 km, the total length of distribution electric grids – 121,145 km. The total of distribution and transformer substations exceeds 30 thousand pieces.

The primary goals of development of JSC “MOESK”, the other 12 IDGCs/DGCs and the management company of Holding represented by IDGC Holding, OJSC is provision of reliable, uninterrupted electricity supply of high quality to consumers, technological connection of electricity consumers, and increase in investment appeal of distribution electric grid assets.