On August 25, 2014 the 45 CIGRE Session at the Paris Palais des Congrès was opened. This event being participated by more than 3200 multidisciplinary specialists is marked by intensive discussion on a number of strategic and technical issues necessary to further the harmonious and effective development of the global electricity industry taking...

On Sunday August 24, 2014 year a solemn opening ceremony of the 45 Session of the International Council on large electric systems (CIGRE) was held in Le Palais des Congrès. The opening ceremony was attended by President of CIGRE Claus Froehlich (Klaus Froehlich), Secretary General of the Council of Philippe Adam (Adam Philippe), Chairman of th...

From October 15 till October 17, 2014, an International Electrical energy forum RusGrids-Electro will be held in the Expocenter on Krasnaya Presnya. It is organized by JSC “Russian Grids” and CEC “Expocenter”, and the title media sponsor is the “Electro energy. Transmission and distribution” magazine. Nowadays JSC “Russian Grids” is the lar...

The largest Russian power grid company Russian Grids supported the initiative of the magazine “ELECTRIC POWER. Transmission and Distribution” to make a special English edition to be distributed among participants of 45th CIGRE session, which will take place August 25–29 of this year in Paris, and visitors of the technical exhibition, held on th...

August 24-29, 2014 – Palais des Congres Paris (France) will host 45th session of the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE*). In parallel of the event, a  technical exhibition is going to be held, the main aim of which is exchange of R&D information, as well as presentation to the professional community of engineers, scientists,

Energy Minister Alexander Novak held a meeting on energy services in the Crimea and electricity development of ECO South. After the meeting an action plan has been approved that involves the construction of thermal power plants (TPP) on gas with total capacity of not less than 700 MW unit with a maximum capacity of generating equipment is not more...

The issue’s first section “Focus” contains the interview with Nikolay Voropay, Professor, AM of RAS, Director of the Power System Institute named after L.А. Melentyev, SB RAS, who comments on the actual issues of reliability of de-centralized power systems. Another interesting material here is the report about the visit of the Russian delegatio...

Today, February 26, 2014 at the International Exhibition Center Tokyo Big Sight (Tokyo, Japan) within the framework of the International Week of intellectual energy (World Smart Energy Week) the 4th International Exhibition for the development of intelligent networks (4th INT'L SMART GRID EXPO - 2014) was opened. The opening ceremony of the W...

Today one of the largest international exhibitions for "smart grid" equipment, the 4th International Exhibition for the development of intelligent networks (4th INT’L SMART GRID EXPO – 2014) was launched. More than 1 500 exhibitors from more than thirty countries presented their expositions. On the first day of the exhibition it was attended

This issue is featured by an exclusive interview with Nicholay Shulginov, First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of JSC SO UES, focused on the main aspects of the Technical performance regulations for electric power systems – basic branch document forming unified industry technical rules for all sector entities. The first 2014 issue «A...

From 16 to 17 of June, 2014, in Angarsk there will be the Meeting devoted to the results of “NK  “Rosneft” subsidiaries’ activity in HSE (Health, safety and environment). During the Meeting there will be demonstrations for accident management. The meeting is going to be visited by more than 400 specialists – technical directors and  HSE managers

Yesterday the representatives of magazines «Cable -news» and «ELECTRIC POWER. Transmission and Distribution» visited the opening of the Italian company Prysmian Group - the world leader in the cable industry - a new factory for the production of cables, medium, high and extra high voltage in Rybinsk. The opening ceremony was attended by Prysmian Gr...

The 22th World Energy Congress will be held on 13-17 October 2013 in Taegu (Korea) - World Energy Congress (WEC), which is the world's most authoritative international forum in the field of energy, held by the WEC every 3 years with rotation of the venue. The event will bring together more than 5,000 of the world's civil servants, corporate executi...

September 5 in Jakarta the second day of the exhibition devoted to the energy, manufacturing and distribution «Electric, Power & Renewable Energy Indonesia-2013" ended, in which the delegations of the Ministry of Energy, headed by the Deputy Secretary of the Minister of Energy Yuri Sentjurin. The second day of the Russian exposition began with pr...

Японская компания Chubu Electric Power Co., оператор атомной электростанции (АЭС) "Хамаока" в центре страны, согласилась на требование правительства закрыть эту станцию на неопределенный срок в связи с риском новых мощных землетрясений в Японии. Решение остановить работу АЭС было принято на специальном заседании правления Chubu Electric и объявле...

 Проверка высоковольтных линий всегда сопряжена с риском для человека, поэтому целый ряд компаний поручает эту миссию роботизированным механизмам. Одна из них – токийская HiBot – в сотрудничестве с японским энергопоставщиком Kansai Electric Power намерена в следующем году представить робота нового поколения, который способен инспектировать нескольк...

Передача экологически чистой электроэнергии из альтернативных источников потребителю должна осуществятся непосредственно с места производства.  В случае предлагаемого 460-мильного проекта SunZia Southwest Transmission это означает постройку альтернативных линий мощностью 500 киловольт, которые заменят уже имеющиеся по всей центральной и южной части...

Чувствовалось всеобщее волнение, когда официальные лица собрались на подстанции Чимталла (пригород Кабула) в честь открытия новой линии электропередачи. По этой линии, протяженностью в 261 милю, электроэнергия поступает из Узбекистана в Кабул. Главная магистраль энергосистемы пересекает северо-восток страны. Но пока новая линия будет выходить на пр...

Уже долгое время мы не сообщали о новых проектах по ЛЭП в Северной Америке в связи с тем, что процедура утверждения очень длительная и сложная. Сотни проектов застряли в судебных тяжбах, поэтому планы предприятий по строительству новых ЛЭП едва ли представляют собой непосредственный интерес для производителей кабелей. Предприятия спорили о том, что...

Вертолет крупнейшей в Японии энергетической компании разорвал кабель ЛЭП, в результате чего без электричества остались 9,4 тыс. домов. Инцидент заставил два с половиной часа висеть в воздухе около 700 лыжников в остановившихся кабинках канатных дорог. Авария привела также к временному прекращению движения поездов в префектурах Гумма и Ниигата в це...