OREANDA-NEWS. On 10 June 2008 was announced, that the meeting seminar takes place within the limits of the "Electro-2008" Exhibition in the Expocentre, Krasnaya Presnya. Its organizers are IDGC of Centre, JSC; Expocentre, JSC, and Energo-Info magazine.

The action is intended for the heads, engineers, designers and sales managers of the enterprises - manufacturers and suppliers of the electric technical equipment. As a matter of fact, the main result of this action is the answer to the question what equipment today and in the near future will be demanded in IDGC of Centre.

The program stipulates reports of technical directors and leading experts of IDGC of Centre and its branches. The reporters will tell about the main requirements to the principle kinds of the equipment used in the grids. These are switching devices, power and measuring transformers, devices of relay protection and automatics, cable and conductor products, etc.

In his address to participants of the seminar, General Director of IDGC of Centre Evgeniy Makarov noted that during the reform the electric power industry as a whole, and electric grid business in particular, received an enormous, unprecedented impulse as for the scale of development. Over 1.3 bn rubles will be directed to development of the grid infrastructure up to 2011. The total volume of the investment program of IDGC of Centre for the period of 2008-2012 will exceed 45 billion rubles. Up to 2010, the company plans commissioning of transformer capacity in the amount of nearby 3,000 MVA, construction of over 11, 460 km of transmission lines. Thus IDGC of Centre should create the reserve of electric capacities in the volume advancing development of the economy for 3-5 years.

Such large-scale construction and strategic purposes demand special attention to the choice of the equipment and formation of the order for tens of enterprises power machine engineering and electric power technical industry, design, research and construction complexes, and other associated industries. IDGC of Centre as an innovative company aspires to use the advanced technical devices and technologies in work allowing to provide maximum reliability of networks, high efficiency and safety of productions.

"The scales of investment programs and problems the power men face stipulate that the manufacturers should go ahead and offer the newest development, rather than lag behind,' Evgeniy Makarov said. 'Therefore, during such meetings like this one, the meeting seminar "Innovations are the basis of development and reliability improvement of the distribution grid complex of IDGC of Centre", we aspire to establish active bilateral dialogue between the company and manufacturers. As a result of such a forum, manufacturers of the equipment can understand how IDGC of Centre develops and other IDGC on its example, what equipment will be demanded by the grid complex of Russia in several years and in the long term".