Tyumenenergo

Technologies enabling effective solution of environmental problems due to their complexity and difficulty require not only innovative engineering ideas and innovative approaches to management. This approach is evident in the environmental policy of JSC Tyumenenergo: to ensure the development of innovative systems, implementation of environmental innovation providing a positive impact on the environment becomes important. It can be both technologies (new methods of environment pollution control and waste utilization) and new methods of industrial management providing environment control. It is also a comprehensive implementation of environmental management, environmental marketing, environmental technology enabling the system to provide the interaction between economic development and environmental protection at the Company level.

An Independent Agency “Interfax-ERA” annually conducts comparison among 150 largest Russian companies, analysing their effectiveness. Among the indicators of this evaluation are environmental friendliness and energy efficiency.

At the end of 2014, JSC Tyumenenergo was on the 26th place among 150 largest companies in Russia, thus confirming the environmental safety of its operations.

In order to minimise the impact of industrial activity on the environment, the Company has developed a set of tools:

• Plans, reports, and procedures in the field of environmental safety. These tools allow the branches of JSC Tyumenenergo planning activities generate and analyse data on environment state within the Company`s industrial facilities;
• The system of environmental restrictions for conditions of all the Company`s branches developed and approved in accordance with established procedure — standards for emissions of pollutants into the atmospheric air and waste disposal limits;
• Industrial environmental control and internal environmental audits;
• Modern technologies applied as preventive measures to control land pollution when operating oil-filled equipment;
• Standards in the field of education and utilization of various waste types and primary recording of industrial activity influence the environment developed by the Company and used in the course of each branch operation.

The Company operates and improves the environmental management system in accordance with the requirements of ISO 14001: 2004.

Such conclusion has been based on the results of JSC Tyumenenergo environmental management system re-certification audit. The inspection was carried out by an independent entity of management systems certification SGS. As the result of that inspection, the Report on test and evaluation of environment management system was drawn up. In that, Report SGS confirms the validity of the Certificate of Compliance received by the Company in 2008 and certifies that JSC Tyumenenergo really takes active measures to minimise the impact of manufacturing processes on the environment.

In 2014, several branches of JSC Tyumenenergo successfully completed scheduled environmental measures of the target-oriented program “Provision of Environmental Safety of JSC Tyumenenergo in 2014–2018” including disposal of oil sludge and silica gel (Nefteyugansk Electric Networks), plastic, paper and used batteries, preparation of storage areas for oil-filled equipment and industrial waste temporary storage (Urayskie Electric Networks, Nefteyugansk Electric Networks), purchase of metal-polymers to eliminate oil-filled equipment leakage using “dry” welding technology and modern welding absorbents to eliminate accidental oil spills (all of the Company`s branches). In 2014, 47 mln RUB was spent on the target-oriented program realization.

All Company branches follow a policy for waste minimisation.

The policy is to develop and implement measures aimed to reducing the volume waste. For example, scrap metal, used car tires, accumulators, paper and cardboard wastes, waste batteries are sent for recycling as a secondary raw material, mercury vapour lamps, oil filters, oily waste are utilised. An effective monitoring system of waste generation and management has been implemented. Work is under-way to determine hazard classes of waste, new types and conditioning in order to treat different types of waste correctly.