Key Events of the Company
2023
January
Rosseti Kuban delegated a group of its representative to join a meeting chaired by the Vice‑Governor of the Krasnodar Territory on the issue of grid connection of land plots allocated to multi‑child families for individual housing development.
During the meeting, the Ministry of Fuel & Energy and Utilities, the administrations of the local municipal entities, and the major power grid companies all came to agreements regarding collaborative efforts.
The management of Rosseti Kuban and the chairman of the Regional Public Organisation All‑Russian Electrounion in Krasnodar signed the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, which lays out the fundamentals of social partnership and governs the process for awarding benefits and compensation to company employees.
February
The Company completed upgrading of the Pochtovaya 110/10 kV substation in Krasnodar, which increased the capacity of the facility to 80 MVA. Rosseti Kuban invested over RUB 560 million in the upgrading of this power facility.
March
During a working meeting, the Head of the Krasnodar Territory Administration, Veniamin Kondratiev, and Acting General Director of the Company, Boris Ebzeev, discussed the autumn‑winter period and the prospects for modernising the region’s energy infrastructure. Rosseti Kuban plans to allocate RUB 32.7 billion of investments to develop the Krasnodar Territory’s power grid complex in 2023–2027.
The Company launched a new educational project, Pre‑University, which aims to provide occupational guidance to schoolchildren who want to connect their future with the electric power industry. High school students from the Republic of Adygeya and the Krasnodar Territory were the project’s first participants. They will receive training in career‑related areas at Kuban State Agrarian University.
April
The Company held joint exercises with regional divisions of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, dispatch services, government and local authorities to eliminate power supply disruptions during the flood period in the power grid sector of the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygeya.
May
Since the beginning of 2023, Yugo‑Zapadniye Power Grids Branch has discharged 157 contracts for connection of agro‑industrial facilities to the Company’s power grids. The total capacity issued to agricultural producers totalled 4 MW.
The Company sent a delegation to the All‑Russian Scientific and Technical Conference “Ways to Improve Reliability, Efficiency and Safety of Energy Production”, which opened in the village of Divnomorskoye, Krasnodar Territory.
Murat Kumpilov, Head of the Republic of Adygeya, and Boris Ebzeev, Acting Director General of Rosseti Kuban, discussed the development of the republic’s power grid complex, plans for the renovation and construction of power facilities, and the creation of new power capacities for the implementation of major investment projects in the region.
The Adygeyan Power Grids branch has commissioned 19 transformer substations and power transmission lines since the beginning of 2023 under the programme for consolidation of power grid assets.
June
At Orlenok all‑Russian children’s centre, the Company’s specialists opened a specific educational shift #VmesteYarche, which was attended by more than 100 teenagers from different regions of Russia. Power engineers held master classes on first aid for electrocuted persons, a lecture entitled Energy of New Times, and introduced the children to the work of the Rosseti Group’s companies.
At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Rosseti Kuban, PJSC and ERSO Holding, JSC signed a strategic cooperation agreement.
July
Rosseti Kuban, PJSC started construction of infrastructure to supply electricity to an eco‑resort in the Republic of Adygeya. The project will provide 22 MW of capacity to the Lagonaki all‑season resort.
In Krasnodar, the Company’s corporate energy institute hosted the opening of a professional skills competition among participants of student energy teams of Rosseti Kuban, PJSC.
In the first half of 2023, the power engineers of South‑Western Power Grids provided electricity to 3,800 new consumers. The capacity output totalled 62 MW.
August
The Rosseti Kuban team took part in the Young Professionals open corporate professional skills championship of the Rosseti Group, which was held in the Leningrad Region, competing in the “Operation of Cable Transmission Lines” and “Maintenance and Repair of Relay Protection and Automatics” categories.
In Krasnodar, the regional professional skills competition “Best in Profession” among energy companies of the Krasnodar Territory were rounded up at the training ground of the Corporate Energy Institute. The team from Rosseti Kuban, PJSC won the competition.
September
Since the beginning of 2023, the Company has accepted transfer of ownership over the energy facilities of 37 gardening non‑commercial partnerships in the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygeya.
Since the beginning of 2023, specialists of Armavir Power Grids branch have provided grid connection and capacity increase for more than 680 consumers in Novokubansky, Otradnensky, Kavkazsky, Gulkevichsky and Uspensky districts of the Krasnodar Territory.
A meeting was held in Krasnodar under the leadership of Krasnodar Territory Governor, Veniamin Kondratyev to prepare the region for the autumn‑winter period of 2023/2024. Edgar Armaganyan, First Deputy General Director, spoke about the progress of preparations for the heating season within the area of responsibility of Rosseti Kuban, noting that the implementation of the repair programme is about 90%, and all production programmes are being delivered on as scheduled.
Since the beginning of 2023, more than 30 educational institutions in the Krasnodar Territory, the Republic of Adygeya and the federal territory of Sirius have been connected to the Company’s power grids.
October
Since the beginning of 2023, more than 30 healthcare facilities in the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygeya have been connected to the Company’s power grids. The connected capacity totalled 1 MW.
More than 6,300 antimagnetic seals have been installed since the beginning of the year by specialists of Krasnodar Power Grids branch on metering devices of electricity consumers.
Specialists of the Ust‑Labinsk Power Grids branch completed the repair of more than 200 km of 0.4–10 kV distribution grid power lines in the Ust‑Labinsk, Vyselkovsky, Tbilisi and Korenovsky districts of the Krasnodar Territory.
November
Specialists of the Krasnodar Power Grids branch performed overhaul and maintenance of eight high‑voltage substations and 50 transformer points, which provide power supply to more than 900,000 consumers in the suburbs of the territorial capital, as well as in five neighbouring districts of the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygeya.
Since the start of 2023, power engineers from the Adygeyan Power Grids branch have been able to reimburse the company RUB 0.8 million in compensation for material damage caused to power grid facilities by third parties as a result of traffic accidents.
Rosseti Kuban, PJSC and the Krasnodar Regional Branch of the Russian Student Brigades, an all‑Russian youth public organisation, signed an agreement on cooperation to enhance the prestige of energy professions among young specialists. The document was signed by Boris Ebzeev, Acting Director General of Rosseti Kuban, and Vyacheslav Podgainy, Head of the Regional Headquarters of the Kuban Student Brigades.
Specialists from Krasnodar Power Grids built grid infrastructure and supplied electricity to land plots issued to family with many children in Starokorsunskaya village, Kopansky, Oktyabrsky, Novy hamlets and the Lazurnoye settlement in the suburbs of Krasnodar.
December
Rosseti Kuban commissioned a new Yasnaya substation in Mostovsky District, Krasnodar Territory. The capacity of the power facility is 40 MVA.
The Company has fully implemented measures to prepare for the autumn‑winter period of 2023/2024 and received a certificate of readiness from the Ministry of Energy of Russia.
2024
January
As part of the maintenance and repair programme in 2023, the Company enhanced the reliability of 5,800 km of PTLs of various voltage classes in the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygeya.
February
Rosseti Kuban completed three major projects in Sochi with a total investment of about RUB 3 billion. Highly automated Adler, Kudepsta and Pasechnaya 110 kV substations were put into operation after comprehensive renovation. Krasnodar Territory Governor, Veniamin Kondratiev, Director General of Rosseti, Andrey Ryumin, and Acting Director General of Rosseti Kuban, Boris Ebzeev, took part in the commissioning ceremony.
March
In Krasnodar, the best employees were awarded and veterans of the Kuban power industry were honoured on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of Rosseti Kuban. More than 200 employees of the Company were honoured with industry and corporate awards dedicated to the Company’s anniversary.
