OREANDA-NEWS. On 14 July 2008 was announced, that IES-Holding executives headed by President Mikhail Slobodin visited the company's generating and energy-selling assets located in the Sverdlovsk Region. IES top managers inspected the plants of OJSC TGC-9, of which IES is a controlling shareholder, and met with its employees. Earlier in June, the IES executives inspected generating facilities in the Penza and Kirov Regions.

As part of the visit, Mikhail Slobodin had a working meeting with Chairman of the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region Viktor Koksharov. The parties discussed prospects for cooperation between the regional authorities and the energy holding company.

Mikhail Slobodin informed Viktor Koksharov of IES-Holding's new business model, which will enable the company to increase the efficiency of management of its strategic power engineering assets. Within the framework of the new model a number of divisions are being established by various business directions. In particular, TGC-5 and TGC-9 form the basis of Urals Generation, a unified division to be headed by CJSC IES Executive Vice President Andrey Makarov, former General Director of TGC-9.

The IES executives visited Sverdlovsk and Novo-Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg affiliate of TGC-9) HPPs, which are Ekaterinburg's main heat suppliers, Pervouralsk HPP and the heating complex of Academenergo boiling house planned to be replaced by a new HPP in order to increase heat supplies for Ekaterinburg.

The IES-Holding executives observed repair works at the plants' energy facilities in preparation for the coming autumn and winter season, inquired into particulars of production processes in each of the territories and had a working meeting with directors and executives of Ekaterinburg affiliate and the production directorate of TGC-9 for the Sverdlovsk Region.

The meeting was arranged as a round-table discussion with the executives of IES-Holding and Sverdlovsk plants considering possibilities of maximum efficient operations of the energy facilities. The meeting shaped a plan for the plants' further development, maximization of their reliability and satisfaction of the growing consumers demand.