OREANDA-NEWS  On 01 October was announced, that JSC Irkutskenergo develops power saving program. Evgeniy Filsh, finance and commercial director of JSC Irkutskenergo announced this during the round table discussion “Power supply: socioeconomic aspects and the balance of interests”. He pointed out that JSC Irkutskenergo program realization and energy supply measures implementation together will let 1 GW capacity release.

JSC Irkutskenergo program main directions are boiler efficiency development, steam and condensate losses decrease, thermal and power energy for industrial and private needs cut down. At the present moment, the enterprise is carrying out the work in these directions, noticed E. Filsh, including the fact that to decrease power consumption for industrial needs, Baikalskaya, Lisikha and Novo-Lenino electro boilers, situated in Irkutsk were transferred to reserves. Thermal loading form these sources was transferred to Novo-Irkutskaya thermal power station and to the north industrial hub. The same work is planned to be carried out in Bratsk and Gidrostroiteley village.

Evgeniy Filsh pointed out that to save power is twice, and even thrice more effective than to create new producing capacities. It is a significant and important task, especially in the period of capacity consumption increase, connected with the development of energy-sufficient industries in the region. If at the present moment, the consumption in the Irkutsk Region accounts for 9 GW per year, at an average, in the near future it can reach 12-13 GW. According to the specialists' research, by 2024, power energy deficiency in the region will make up 3,4 GW per year. Thus, JSC Irkutskenergo power saving program will let for short terms and relatively small investments provide power capacity release for top-priority region industrial development projects’ realization, which implementation was postponed due to the lack of free capacities.

According to Evgeniy Filsh, one of the major factor for power saving program is that in coming years electricity tariffs in the Irkutsk region will increase and equal other regions’ tariffs. It is connected with the fact that electric power costs are formed in the free market, in addition, the stake of energy prices liberalization will increase year-by-year. The capacity market is launched. That’s why to preserve the competitiveness of the Irkutsk Region energy-efficiency enterprises, it is necessary to decrease the energy consumption rate per unit of products turnout.