IDGC of Centre Has Become One of the First Partners of the Manufacture That Opened in the Smolensk Region

Moscow, Russia, October 08, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Baltenergomash is an enterprise that will make low-voltage switching centres (LVSCs) and unit package transformer substations (UPTSs) of external and internal installation. Now production capacity provides production of ten substations per month, and by 2011 it is expected to produce up to 40-50 package transformer substations per month.

According to Sergei Arkhipov, one of the first partners of the new manufacture is IDGC of Centre, JSC, represented by its subsidiary Smolenskenergo. Three UPTSs (two two-transformer UPTSs 2х1000 KVA and one two-transformer UPTSs 2х630 kVA) made in the Smolensk Region will be received and installed in Smolenskenergo, a subsidiary of IDGC of Centre, JSC, under the work on technological connection of the Federal Centre of Traumatology and Prosthetics that is being built in the regional centre.

Simultaneously with the installation of the new equipment, the personnel of Smolensk Electric Networks Production Department will undergo advanced training in the Advanced Training Centre based in Baltenergomash, due to the necessity to teach the maintenance personal completely new technologies implemented in IDGC of Centre, JSC (for example, the acquired UPTSs will be equipped with gas-insulated devices, that at 6-10 kV voltage is an innovation in Smolensk).

About us: “Interregional Distribution Grid Company of Centre”, Joint-Stock Company was registered on December 17, 2004. The capital stock of IDGC of Centre, JSC as of March 31, 2008, equals RUR 4, 221, 794, 146.80. IDGC of Centre, JSC includes the following branches: Belgorodenergo, Bryanskenergo, Voronezhenergo, Kurskenergo, Kostromaenergo, Lipetskenergo, Tverenergo, Smolenskenergo, Orelenergo, Tambovenergo and Yarenergo. The Company Director-General is Evgeny Fedorovich Makarov. The total length of transmission lines accounts for 365,769.7 km. Main achievements: certificate of conformity of the Quality Management System with the requirements of ISO 9001:2000, certificate for receiving the rating of corporate governance 6+ under the scale of the National Rating of Corporate Governance. “Developed Corporate Governance Practice” National Rating Agency gave a rating of credit solvency to IDGC of Centre, JSC on level A - high credit solvency, the 2nd level. IDGC of Centre, JSC successfully passed certification audit for reception of the degree of conformity with the second level of technological maturity in the field of project management (IPMA). It became a corporate member of SOVNET Russian Project Management Association forming a part in the International Project Management Association (IPMA) (Zurich, Switzerland). In 2008 - Business Process Excellence Award 2008 in the Bussiness Perfomance Improvement nomination.

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