Key Events of the Company
2022
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January
On 25 January, Rosseti Kuban’s power engineer teams fully restored power supply to the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygeya in the 6-10 kV distribution grid, which was disrupted by a prolonged snowfall. The natural disaster had the greatest impact on Kuban’s foothill and central areas, particularly several settlements in the Seversky, Abinsky, and Krymsky districts. Despite persistent storms, the work was done around the clock.
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February
The Government House of the Republic of Adygeya hosted a working meeting between Murat Kumpilov, Head of the Republic, and Boris Ebzeev, Acting General Director of the Company, where they discussed plans to modernise the energy infrastructure in the region. In 2022–2023, the Company is going to channel more than RUB 3.8 billion of investments to expand the power grid complex in the Republic of Adygeya under a cooperation agreement between the Adygeya Cabinet of Ministers, Rosseti Group and the Company signed in 2020.
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March
Since the beginning of 2022, specialists of the Sochi branch of Rosseti Kuban have recovered by action about RUB 1.2 million in damages from unauthorised electricity consumption.
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April
During his working visit in the Kuban capital, Andrey Alekseenko, Head of Krasnodar, assessed the renovation progress of the 110/10 kV Pochtovaya substation. The substation is an important feeding centre for 70,000 people and more than 70 socially important facilities, including city pumping stations, boiler houses and a number of large shopping centres. In addition to increasing the reliability of the power supply to the Kuban capital, the reconstruction has made it possible to create a capacity reserve for connecting additional consumers.
Since the beginning of the year, power engineers of the Company’s Adygeya Power Grids branch have provided electricity to eight healthcare, education, sports and cultural institutions located in the districts of the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygeya. The total capacity of socially important facilities connected to the Company’s power grids was more than 930 kW.
Since the beginning of 2022, employees of the Armavir Power Grids branch have connected 220 new consumers with a total capacity of more than 5.5 MW to the power grids. These include industrial, agro-industrial and sports facilities.
Tikhoretskiye Power Grids completed routine repairs at seven high-voltage substations. The power centres provide electric service to more than 50,000 residents in the Tikhoretsky, Pavlovsky and Novopokrovsky districts of the Territory, as well as to industrial enterprises and social institutions.
The Company’s power engineers used backup plans to restore the power supply to customers in the Krasnodar Territory and Adygeya after it had been interrupted by heavy weather. Hurricane-force winds, with gusts up to 30 m/s, hit some areas of Kuban and Adygeya, disrupting the power supply.
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May
Rosseti Kuban prepared the power equipment in the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygeya for the summer peak load during the 2022 holiday season. The Company repaired and maintained 2,800 km of power transmission lines of various voltage classes and over 800 transformer substations located in the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygeya.
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June
At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, by Boris Ebzeev, Acting General Director of Rosseti Kuban and Andrey Furashov, Chairman of the Management Board of EKRA Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement.
Rosseti Kuban’s personnel attended the XXV All-Russian Scientific and Technical Conference, which focused on enhancing the reliability, effectiveness, and security of energy production. The management, technical specialists and service sales personnel of Rosseti Kuban, as well as leading domestic manufacturers of energy equipment participated in the discussions. The event was held in the village of Divnomorskoye in the resort town of Gelendzhik on the premises of Energetik Health Resort, JSC.
Power engineers of the Timashevsk Power Grids branch connected Abrau-Durso on Plavnyakh eco-hotel in Sadki farmstead in the Primorsko-Akhtarskiy district, the Krasnodar Territory. The total capacity delivered was 170 MW.
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July
Since the beginning of the year, power engineers of the Timashevsk Power Grids branch of Rosseti Kuban have overhauled more than 75 km of high-voltage power transmission lines, which provide electric service to five municipalities in the Krasnodar Territory with a total population of over 300,000 people.
The summer labour season of the Company’s student energy teams officially began on 1 July 2022 in Krasnodar.
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August
The Krasnodar Power Grid branch completed a comprehensive repair of one of the key power centres in Krasnodar – the KhBK 110 kV substation. The power facility covers electricity supply to about 80 socially important facilities and more than 65,000 people.
Since the beginning of 2022, specialists from Slavyansk Power Grids have connected over 2,900 household consumers and socially important facilities in the Krasnoarmeisky, Slavyansky and Temryuksky districts of the Krasnodar Territory to the Company’s power grid infrastructure. The total maximum capacity of the Company’s new consumers exceeded 53 MW.
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September
Tikhoretsk Power Grids completed overhauls and maintenance at 43 substations located within their remit. These power centres provide electric service to industrial enterprises, social institutions and contribute largely to the economy of five districts in the Krasnodar Territory.
Based on the outcomes of the regional rounds of the Open Corporate Championship of Professional Skills of Rosseti Group – Young Professionals, using the WorldSkills methodology, the team representing Rosseti Kuban was declared the overall winner in the Smart Metering competency.
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NOVEMBER
The Company provided a reliable power supply for the Young Scientists’ Congress events. Nine diesel generator sets with a total capacity of 4.14 MW and seven uninterruptible power supplies with a total capacity of 994 kVA are used to back up the power supply to the central Congress venue in the Sirius Science and Arts Park.
Rosseti Kuban is upgrading the grid infrastructure in Yuzhny, a Krasnodar suburb, where active house development has resulted in an increase in energy demand. The Company built new power transmission lines and transformer substations and renovated existing ones.
The Company confirmed its winter readiness and received a certificate of readiness for the 2022/2023 autumn-winter period. The decision on the readiness of electric power industry entities is formalised by a corresponding order of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation. All necessary preparations have been made, and in some cases, they have gone above and beyond what was required, for reliable operation during the heating season. For the repair campaign in 2022, Rosseti Kuban, PJSC allotted RUB 3.3 billion.
The Company won the 1C:Project of the Year competition with the project to provide an automated system for electricity transport metering services.
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DECEMBER
Murat Kumpilov, the Head of the Republic of Adygeya, chaired a working session in Maikop with the Rosseti Kuban management to discuss the expansion of the power grid complex and the implementation of measures for grid connection within the scope of regional significant investment projects.
The Head of Krasnodar, Evgeny Naumov, visited the 35 kV Khutor Lenina substation to assess the progress of its renovation sponsored by Rosseti Kuban’s investment programme. In 2022, the Company spent about RUB 60 million to upgrade this energy facility.
2023
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The Company delegated a group of its representative to join a meeting chaired by the Vice-Governor of the Krasnodar Territory on the issue of grid connection of land plots allocated to multi-child families for individual housing development. During the meeting, the Ministry of Fuel & Energy and Utilities, the administrations of the local municipal entities, and the major power grid companies all came to agreements regarding collaborative efforts.
In 2022, Rosseti Kuban installed over 43,000 new universal electricity meters for consumers in the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygeya. Within the bounds of existing law, the Company installed smart metres with remote data transmission action for its customers.
The management of Rosseti Kuban and the chairman of the Regional Public Organisation All-Russian Electrounion in Krasnodar signed the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, which lays out the fundamentals of social partnership and governs the process for awarding benefits and compensation to company employees.
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FEBRUARY
In the Lazarevsky, Adler, and Central Districts of Sochi as well as the piedmont settlements of the Tuapse District, Krasnodar Territory, which got hit by a heavy snowfall on the night of 15 February, Rosseti Kuban specialists restored power supply.
Company specialists completed upgrading the 110/10 kV Pochtovaya substation in Krasnodar. The capacity of the power centre was raised to 80 MVA as a result of the renovation. More than RUB 560 million was invested by the Company in upgrading this energy facility.
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MARCH
The Company launched a new educational project, Pre-University, which aims to provide occupational guidance to schoolchildren who want to connect their future with the electric power industry. High school students from the Republic of Adygeya and the Krasnodar Territory were the project’s first participants. They will receive training in career-related areas at Kuban State Agrarian University.
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