The Ministry of Energy spoke about measures to protect the energy infrastructure of the Crimea

MOSCOW, 13 Oct – PRIME. The decision of the government to allocate an additional 1 billion rubles for the energy infrastructure of the Crimea will reduce the accident rate at facilities and improve their anti-terrorist security, Deputy Energy Minister of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Grabchak told RIA Novosti.

The Russian government will allocate an additional 1 billion rubles to Crimea for energy infrastructure, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said earlier on Thursday.

“The implementation of these measures will make it possible to ensure the implementation of scheduled preventive repairs, operational maintenance, anti-terrorist protection of electric power facilities, switch to an economic way of servicing the power grid facilities, which is under the jurisdiction of Krymenergo, and also form a standard emergency reserve, which will help reduce the number of accidents and improving the reliability of power grid facilities,” the Deputy Minister commented on the sidelines of the Russian Energy Week.

Russian Energy Week takes place in Moscow on October 12-14. RIA Novosti acts as an information partner of the forum.