OREANDA-NEWS. On 02 September 2008 was announced, that at 00.00 o'clock, 31 August, 2008, the functions of management of grid facilities at Oryolenergo, an IDGC of Centre, JSC subsidiary, were transferred from Oryol Regional Dispatch Administration of JSC UES System Operator to the Network Management Centre of Oryolenergo, a branch of IDGC of Centre, JSC.

Since this moment, the management of UES work mode on the territory of the Oryol Region was assigned to  Kursk Regional Disptach Administration, a subsidiary of JSC SO UES, and the management of grid facilities is now performed by the Network Management Centre at Oryolenergo, an IDGC of Centre, JSC branch. According to Director of the subsidiary Sergey Zorin, the reform will make possible to improve reliability of power supply of consumers and optimise the structure of operative dispatch adiministration both under the System Operator and under IDGC of Centre.

"I am glad that this project has been completed,"said Sergey Syutkin, General Director of Operative Dispatch Administration of Centre, a branch of JSC UES System Operator Central Dispatch Administration. "We have improved reliability of  power supply system management in Oryol operational zone. Enormous preliminary work on increase in the number of telemeasurements and improvement of quality of communication channels was done.”

According to Sergey Zorin, in the nearest future Oryolenergo is going to reconstruct the dispatch board and repair the premise where the NMC will be established. The company also plans to automate administration.

Three organisational departments are included in the Network Management Centre: dispatch service, electric modes service and relay protection and automatics services. NMC was established on the basis of Oryol RDA experts. When NMC is opened, eighteen high-skilled and experienced specialists will start working here.

Yury Kharlamov, who earlier occupied the position of Director, Oryol RDA, will become the Head of the Network Management Centre.