RUSSIA ELECTRICITY
May 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to finance an overhaul of Russia's electricity transmission system, raising its standards to those applied in western and central Europe, boosting exports of excess power. Its loan package - whose value has yet been set - would finance the installation of a new IT system managing electricity flows (a SCADA/EMS supervisory control and data acquisition/energy management system). This, said the EBRD, would be "vital to ensure efficient operational and dispatching management, ...
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