OREANDA-NEWS  On 03 October was announced, that all-Russian Professional Skills Competitions, that took place from 22 to 26 September, 2008, on the training field of JSC UES FGC in Essentuki, ended.

By results of the competition stages, IDGC of Centre, JSC team has won the ninth place.

The competitions, organised by JSC IDGC Holding, had twelve teams that represented eight interregional and four regional network companies: IDGC of Centre, JSC, JSC IDGC of North-West, JSC IDGC of Urals, JSC IDGC of Siberia, JSC IDGC of the South, JSC IDGC of Volga, JSC IDGC of the Centre and Volga Region, JSC IDGC of the Northern Caucasus and also JSC Moscow United Grid Company, JSC Tyumenenergo, JSC Lenenergo and JSC Yantarenergo. Results of the competition are available here.

The teams had to undergo eight competition stages. Along with the stages that are traditional for the substations maintenance personnel, they had to undergo stages for the operating personnel - people on duty at substations and dispatchers. These were operative switchings on Modus apparatus. It was the only task that involved only operating workers - dispatcher and electrician on duty at the substation – and not the whole team. Their task was to repair a certain part of the network and eliminate the emergency that was due to take place under the scenario. Another new stage was watching a video track. The team members had to detect in the video mistakes and drawbacks that occurred at admission of the team to the workplace.