To repair program of IDGC of Volga, JSC in Saratov region will exceed RUR 148 million in 2008.

The capital repair of the main electric and technical equipment at 117 substations 35-110 kilovolts with the installed capacity of 2,309.2 megavolt-ampere is planned for this year. The capital repairs of 8 transformers, 23 circuit breakers of 110 kilovolt, 67 circuit breakers of 35 kilovolt, 187 disconnectors of 110 kilovolt, 234 diconnectors 35 kilovolt at them will be made. Transformer substations of 10/0.4 kilovolt will be repaired in the number of 848 units. Their installed capacity amounts to 129 megavolt-ampere.

The length of 110 kilovolt voltage power transmission lines (PTL) which will be repaired amounts to over 884 km, 35 kilovolt - over 485 kilometers, 6-10 kilovolt – 17,95 km, 0.4 kilovolt – 1,142 km. Saratov powermen will have to change 4,176 supports, 396 km of the conductor, and over 20,000 insulators.

The largest facilities being reconstructed are substations Promyshlennaya, Zapadnaya, Pichevaya, Karabulak, Storozhevka, Panitskaya, Sverdlovo, Nalivnaya, Industrialnaya and power transmission lines of Heat Station 5 – Guselka, Heat Station 5 – Vodozabor, Razovaya – Khomyanovka, Panitskaya – Splavnukha, Lugansk – Zapadnaya Rybushka, Atkarsk – Lopukhovka, Vodopianovo – Kolkhoznaya.

The repair campaign implementation of IDGC of Volga, JSC will make it possible to prepare the grid distribution complex to the work in autumn and winter period of maximal power consumption and will increase the reliability of all the regional power system.