#Russia

Russia, Moscow: Moscow United Electric Grid Company (MOESK) is reconstructing the power substation Almazovo in Balashikha near Moscow, which supplies electricity to a large part of the city.

Russia, Altai Krai: Barnaul Grid Company will invest more than $2 million (100 million rubles) into a series of projects on overhaul and construction of new electric networks for the regional centre Barnaul.

Russia, Vladivostok: Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System (FGC UES), Russia’s largest electricity transmission company has revealed plans to upgrade the transformer equipment in six substations of 220-500 kV voltage class in the Far East in 2015.

Russia, Tatarstan: One of the oldest substations in the Tatarstan capital Kazan, 110 kV Substation South, is undergoing a major reconstruction in order to replace the aged equipment with modern, more reliable and sophisticated electrical equipment.

Russia, Moscow Oblast: JSC Moscow United Electric Grid Company (MOESK) is investing $24 million in the reconstruction of two power supply stations, Pernatovo 110 kV and Dedovo 110 kV, in the Istrinsky district.

Russia, Yekaterinburg: Uralelectrotyazhmash (UETM), one of the biggest manufacturers of large electrical equipment in Russia, has shipped its 1,000th 110 kV voltage transformer ZNG-UETM®-110.

Russia, Buryatia: The Federal Grid Company (FGC) has upgraded the 220 kV Selenduma substation in Buryati with nine new current transformers.

Russia, Moscow: ABB participated in the 21st Annual Meeting of the Association of Russian Energy Cities, Progress Elektro, held from 25-26 March in the Government House of Moscow Oblast.

Russia, Sverdlovsk: A new reserve power transformer has been successfully tested at the construction site of a new combined-cycle thermal power plant at the site of Nizhneturinskaya thermal power plant, in the north of the Sverdlovsk region.

Russia, Moscow: Moscow United Electric Grid Company completed the first phase of a large-scale reconstruction of Avtozavodskaya substation 220/110 kV, into which the company will invest $62 million (3.8 billion rubles).

Russia, St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Electric Networks (St. Petersburg ES) has commenced works on the reconstruction of 110 kV Red October substation in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg.

Russia, Orenburg: Orenburg branch of Volga Territorial Generation Company (Volga TGC) has announced commencement of the installation of a 40 MVA power transformer at the site of the future Orsk Solar Power Plant.

Russia, Dagestan: MES South has plans to perform a series of replacement works at the revamped 330 kV Makhachkala substation in 2015.

Russia, Adygea: Kubanenergo, a Russian energy company and part of Rossetti Group, is planning to build a new Yablonovskaya substation in the Tahtamukaysky District, Adygea Republic.

Russia, Krasnodar: Governor of Kuban region in Southern Russia signed an agreement with the Federal Electric Grid Company UES for the construction of a substation in the eastern industrial zone of Krasnodar, Kuban capital.

Russia, Yekaterinburg: The recently opened reconstructed 220 kV Kutlu-Bukash substation in Tatarstan was supplied with new power transformers by Uralelectrotyazhmash (UETM), Yekaterinburg-based manufacturer of high-voltage equipment, transformers and reactors.

Russia, North Caucasus: Stavropolenergo, a branch of the distribution grid company MRSK North Caucasus, continues works on the modernisation of the 110/10/6 kV Severnaya substation in Stavropol region, with stages three and four to get underway.

Russia, Moscow: Power Machines – Toshiba High-Voltage Transformers LLC, a joint venture of Power Machines OJSC and Toshiba Corporation, completed the manufacture and testing of power transformers as part of the Power Machines project on the construction of the second stage of Blagoveshchensk thermal power plant.

Russia, Yakutia: Energy distributor DRSK invested $3 million into the reconstruction of 110 kV substation Coal 38, which has been put into operation in Neryungri, a Siberian city in the Sakha Republic, Russia.

Russia, Khakassia: Mainskaya Hydro Power Plant, a part of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric complex, has been connected to the new 220 kV switchgear.

Russia, Dagestan: Dagenergoset has installed a new transformer of the capacity 6.3 MVA at the Sun substation in Makhachkala, Dagestan.

Russia, Moscow: Moscow United Electric Grid company (MOESK) completed the main phase of the reconstruction of 110 kV Zubovskaya substation located at the heart of the capital.

Russia, Krasnoyarsk: Russian Federal Grid Company has installed a new transformer in the reconstructed 220 kV Levoberezhny substation, which will increase the reliability of electricity supply to the October Railway and Krasnoyarsk region.

Russia, Leningrad Oblast: The Russian transformer factory Elektrozavod has manufactured modular single-phase transformers of 533 MVA, 330 kV for Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant 2 following the order by Rosenergoatom operating the power plant.