Dmitry Gvozdev: "Optimized internal costs, the money invested in the production process"

Deputy General Director - chief engineer of JSC 'rosseti' Dmitry Gvozdev broadcast TV 'RBC+' answered questions Yulia Prokhorova, summing up work of the electric grid complex in the past 2016.

Despite the difficult market conditions and abnormal weather conditions in some regions of the group 'Russian grids' showed positive financial and production results. Yulia Prokhorova (YUP): 'comparing the modern and the grid five years ago is completely different in its content and approach of electricity infrastructure. What has been achieved?' Dmitry Gvozdev (DW): 'first of all, it is worth noting that the group 'Russian grids', if we consider the period from its inception to the present day, great strides have been achieved in terms of financial indicators: operating costs reduced over the past three years, more than 25% of the investment costs by 15%.

The effect of strict rules of procurement - 26 billion roubles this year alone. In 2015 in 'Russian grids' runs a single Treasury. Only for the year 2016 is brought to the company of approximately 3.5 billion rubles. It is important that these savings are in any case not affect the reliability of electricity supply. The result is achieved through optimization of internal costs, and the money invested in the production process. Much attention is paid to coping with the loss of electricity, which was reduced to the figure at 9.2%. This resulted in a saving of about 36 billion rubles, the equivalent of the repair program of the group of companies 'rosseti'. YUP: 'You have already passed test freeze tariffs?' DG: 'We already work 5 years. And not just work, but also increase the reliability. I can say that for 3 years in networks of all voltage classes reduced recovery time of energy supply in emergency situations by an average of 50%'. YUP: 'What has been done in recent years in the availability of electricity consumers?' DG: 'first and foremost is the reduction in terms of connections and reduce the cost of connection to electric networks. In some regions, for example, in Moscow, with 270 normative days we have shortened the time to 90. Here is the optimization of connection costs. We accept the most economically and technically efficient solutions.' Full version is available at link