The branch of IDGC of the South, JSC - Astrakhanenergo, expects in 2012 that the investment program worth about 600 million rubles will be implemented in full, reported the acting. General Director of IDGC of the South Vladimir Vashkevich at a meeting with the Governor of the Astrakhan Region Alexander Zhilkin.
“The implementation of the investment program of the branch of IDGC of the South, JSC - Astrakhanenergo for 2012 is expected in full - both for electricity transmission and technological connection. The volume of investments at the end of the year will be about 600 million rubles,” the press service reports governor with reference to V. Vishkevich.
At the same time, acting The general director added that in 2013-2014, Astrakhanenergo intends to carry out a renovation of the electrical grid complex of the regional center, which will increase the network capacity and make it possible to connect additional capacities for the development of the city.
According to V. Vashkevich, the company is working with the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation to receive support from the federal budget for the implementation of the program for the renovation of Astrakhan networks.
The message also notes that Astrakhanenergo will ensure the connection of an irrigation system and a plant for the production of tomato paste with a capacity of 100 thousand tons per year, the construction of which by Monomakh CJSC (Moscow) plans to begin in the Chernoyarsk district of the region in 2013.
“We held negotiations, worked out all the points, the design agreement was signed. In 2013, subject to mutual agreements, we will complete our part of the work,” said V. Vishkevich.
At the same time, A. Zhilkin added: “Our country still does not produce tomato paste in industrial quantities; it buys imported ones, and the implementation of the Astrakhan project will solve this problem.”
It was previously reported that Monomakh CJSC (Moscow) plans to begin construction in 2013 in the Chernoyarsk district of the Astrakhan region of a tomato processing plant with a capacity of 100 thousand tons of tomato paste per year. “The design is currently underway. The Volzhskie Dawns project is being implemented, the founder of which is Monomakh CJSC,” Alexander Kolesov, director of the Astrakhan subsidiary of the CJSC, Volzhskie Dawns LLC, told the Interfax-South agency.