During six months of 2016, Penzaenergo, a branch of IDGC of Volga, PJSC (part of Rossetti Group) performed 1041 technological connections to power grids with total capacity of 49.5 MW. As a result, electric power is provided for 205 legal entities and 836 individual consumers. For these purposes, 34.015 km of 6-10/0.4 kV distribution grids (DG) were built; 0.797 km of 6-10/0.4 kV PG reconstructed; 0.385 MVA of transformer capacity commissioned.

The largest applicants among those connected to Penzaenergo grids in the first half of the year were the following: drying plant in Kamenka (2 MW), feed-milling plant with 30 tonnes per hour capacity in Nizhny Lomov (1.6 MW), TP-240 transformer substation for power supply of non-residential industrial building in Penza (1.1 MW), food and nonfood products warehouse in the village of Salovka of Penza district (2.9 MW), car sales and service dealership in Penza (0.4 MW), agricultural complex in the villages of Ust-Karemsha, Pryanzerki of Nizhnelomovsky district (2.84 MW), pig-breeding complex in the village of Lunacharskoe of Lopatinsky district (1 MW), Raduga Gardeners Association in the village of Bogoslovka of Penza district (0.25 MW), production and warehouse facility in the village of Bessonovka (0.66 MW), asphalt concrete factory in Nizhny Lomov (1 MW).

 1151 consumer applications concerning technological connection to power grids were received during six months of 2016. Committed capability amounted to 46.5 MW. 964 contracts for technological connection amounting to 28.8 MW were concluded during the same period.

It is planned to connect about 20 MW to Penzaenergo grids by the end of 2016. The largest technical connections will include sports and recreation center with an ice arena in Nizhny Lomov (0.5 MW), production site of Vasilyevskaya Poultry Farm, OJSC in the village of Yermolovka of Penza district (0.2 MW), production premises of AVIAMETIZ R&P, LLC (0.5 MW), Sosnovka suburban complex in Kuznetsk district (0.12 MW), agricultural production base in Penza district (0.6 MW), service station in Penza (0.18 MW).