Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko will have the constructive dialogue with the branch enterprises via e-mail.
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Russia’s Power Engineering to Take E-Mail Track
Russia’s Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko held the first meeting with general directors of energy companies Friday. Shmatko urged energy chiefs to have a constructive dialogue and gave them his e-mail for this purpose.
Sergei Shmatko, who is currently in charge of continuous energy supply in Russia, held the meeting of energy chiefs Friday, July 18. But the first concern of the new energy chief of the country that day was to cast in the first cement at Zagorsk GAES-2 power plant. So, the venue of the meeting was Buran Health Center, 120km from Moscow.
Asked what he was expecting from the meeting, Inter RAO UES CEO Evgeny Dod said: “The constructive dialogue, as usual.” The constructive-dialogue notion could be felt everywhere. Although the meeting was the closed event, the journalists were allowed to attend for the first ten minutes. Shmatko was speaking of constructive dialogue, which “guarantees operation stability” for power engineering. But the dialogue should be with “fast response,” the minister warned before the reporters were asked to leave the event.
None of the GDs interrogated by Kommersant leaked any details during the break. “We have had the constructive dialogue,” Dod reiterated. “The minister promised to help,” OGK-2 General Director Dmitry Novoselov specified, adding Shmatko gave his e-mail for expedient communication.
When it comes to Russia’s power engineering, the problems are numerous. The first concern is investing programs. Some of the energy companies have great difficulties with funding, some are willing to reduce construction and others are yet to decide on the gas supplies to future power plants. So, the mailbox of the minister is probably full already.
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All the Article in Russian as of July 21, 2008
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