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The Ministry of Energy is monitoring the Zeyskaya and Bureyskaya hydroelectric power stations. Minister of Energy Alexander Novak attended a meeting of the Government Commission on Emergency Relief. Previously, he flew over the area affected by flooding and assessed the condition of the energy infrastructure.
The Ministry of Energy’s experts are consulting in real-time with the personnel of energy companies and infrastructure facilities in the flooded area.
Power supply to consumers remains stable.
“Both plants are operating normally and we have no complaints regarding the work of the staff,” Mr Novak said at a commission meeting. Monitoring of the upper and lower bay has been organised. The flood drowned four electrical substations and 112 transformer substations and electric poles. We have an equipment reserve for bringing the disconnected power equipment back online once the water recedes.”
According to the current data of the Ministry of Energy’s Situation and Analysis Centre, the most complex hydrological situation is developing in the basin of the Zeya River in the Amur Region, where 15 districts and 90 towns were flooded, with more than 4 million residential buildings flooded in 56 of these towns.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that a grouping of 30,000 personnel and 5,265 vehicles has been established by five constituent entities of the Far Eastern Federal district to conduct rescue and other emergency operations.
MES Vostoka, a branch of UES, is currently developing a plan to bring the flooded power facilities – power lines in particular – back on line, and has already begun to implement it. MES Vostoka reported that there were 332 and 195 electric lines in the flooded areas of the Amur Region and the Khabarovsk Territory, respectively.
Some 34 mobile teams of MES Vostoka maintenance personnel using 198 items of equipment are on high alert. Another 286 professionals and 261 items of equipment are in reserve. MES Vostoka is in special operations mode.
Professionals of the Far-Eastern Grid Distribution Company and its branches are also working in such a mode. The company reported 236 power lines, 5,872 electric poles and seven 110 and 35 kV substations in the flooding area.
The load has been transferred to the redundant power supply. The company is currently protecting the equipment from water in the substations, using pumps placed at the main substations that are prone to flooding.
Some 165 teams, 469 professionals and 194 items of equipment from the Far-Eastern Grid Distribution Company are involved in the flood relief work.
In addition, the emergency repair teams from areas not prone to flooding will be relocated – from the neighbouring distribution zones in the Amur Region branch. This includes eight teams, 32 people and 14 vehicles.
Newly-formed mobile teams from branches ES EAO, PrimES, KhabES will be sent to neighbouring regions. This includes 15 teams, 76 personnel, 14 items of equipment. There are sufficient basic materials and equipment for the repair work.
Source: Ministry of Energy
