Command and Staff Training Exercise in Mozhaysk District Is Highly Appreciated by Moscow Area Government

Large-scale anti-terrorist command and staff training exercise was held on the basis of the Mozhaisk electric grid distribution zone of the western branch of JSC “MOESK”. Upon detection of a conditional explosive device, energy specialists, security officials, government representatives and other participants in training worked out a set of measures: organization of the operational headquarters, evacuation of personnel, actual arrest of saboteurs who had entered the substation of 110 kV “Makarovo”, neutralization of the explosive device, fire-fighting and replacement of a power transformer.

According to the legend, an explosive device placed in the feeding center, represented a threat of failure of electric grid equipment of the energy facility, which provides electricity to the city Mozhaisk and a part of the same district. For the expected recovery of power supply, energy specialists of the Western Electric Grids were ready to provide 8 mobile power plants with total capacity of 1,570 kVA promptly. Thus, it was enough to feed all socially important facilities of the city and district consumers. In the course of the event, energy specialists showed the guests more than two dozen units of special equipment, the use of which can increase the speed and efficiency of operations while eliminating process failures, construction and reconstruction of energy facilities.

The completion of the training was followed by summing up of the command and staff training exercises. Chief Judge - Leonid Neganov, Minister for Energy Industry of the Moscow Area said: “We can give the highest rating of the exercises. All participants showed high cooperation skills and professionalism, which are key to the life support of not only the Mozhaisk District, but the area as a whole.”