JSC FGC UES is to provide for power supply to JSC AK Transneft enterprises

The Agreement was signed by President of JSC AK Transneft Nikolay Tokarev, Chairman of JSC RusHydro Management Board Eugeniy Dod and Chairman of JSC FGC UES Management Board Oleg Budargin.
In accordance with the signed Agreement JSC AK Transneft undertakes construction and commission of eight oil pump stations comprising the second priority of pipeline (ESPO-2) construction. JSC RusHydro is to provide for implementation of Nizhne-Bureyskaya HPP, development of the plant power output scheme and also power supply to JSC AK Transneft enterprises including ESPO-2 facilities. In its turn JSC FGC UES is to build electric grid facilities for power output of Nizhne-Bureyskaya HPP in accordance with the approved scheme of its power output, and commission ESPO-2 external power supply facilities by the end of 2012.
JSC FGC UES carries out construction and reconstruction of 40 backbone grid facilities for ESPO pipeline power supply on the territory of Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Amur region, Khabarovsk and Primorskiy Territories. To this effect by the end of 2012 JSC FGC UES will carry out expansion of the following facilities in the Far East region: substations 220 kV Nizhniy Kuranakh (Yakutia), Tynda and Zavitaya (Amur region), Obluchiye (Jewish autonomous area), Lesozavodsk (Primorskiy Territory) andKhekhtsyr (Khabarovsk Territory). Also power transmission lines 220 kV will be constructed to provide for power supply for ten oil pump stations.
In 2009 JSC FGC UES fulfilled all its obligations to provide for power supply for the first stage f ESPO-1. This June substation of special oil-loading port in Kozmino bay was connected to power transmission line 220 kV Shirokaya – Partizansk in Primorsky Territory. Also Federal Grid Company provided for technological connection of NPS-17 (pump station) to active power transmission line 220 kV Neryungrinskaya GRES – Nizhniy Kuranakh in Yakutia. Outdoor switchgear 110 kV of substation 220 kV Skovorodino was expanded in October 2009 in order to connect NPC-21 (pump station) in Amur region.
Recently Federal Grid Company concluded eight more contracts with AK Transeft on technological connection to the Unified national electric grid facilities of oil-pumping stations of the second priority ESPO pipeline. Total customer contract capacity equals 129.9 MVA.