Russian Power System Operator: Advantages and Current Сhallenges

Among the global power organizations comprising power engineers pursuant to their interests and directions of activities GO15 Association can be distinguished. GO15 includes the world’s largest power system operators. Unlike many other professional unions GO15 is a sort of elite club as to enter it the system operator must control the power system which total load exceeds 50 GW. Such large power systems are few in the world and their amount remains unchanged for many years. The Russian System Operator plays an important role at GO15 not only due to the dimensions of the power system but also thanks to the efforts of its specialists. This year the official representative of the company at GO15 Governing Board and Steering Board member, «System Operator of the United Power System» JSC Vice Chairman of the Management Board Fedor Opadchiy was elected GO15 Vice President. In his interview Fedor OPADCHIY spoke about the peculiarities of the Russian Power System and its dispatching control, history and future as well as on the major challenges it faces.