The accident occurred in the energy field of the storm

The second line was shut down due to construction of bypass road – the southern bypass of the city Sovietsk. No possibility of diversion of electricity from CHP-2 was the reason for stopping both units. This is today's press conference, Minister of Infrastructure Development of the Kaliningrad region, Alexander Rolbinov. "We have today the region consumes 400 megawatts and CHP-2 produces 718 megawatts of power. Therefore, the main part of the electricity sold overflows in Lithuania, that is, is exported. As a result of the fact that any generating source can not work without eating, automatic shut off and worked two units of TPP-2 ", – explained the Minister. According to him, none of the social facilities as a result of the accident was not injured. The economic damage of the events on Saturday have not yet counted. In addition, the Minister said that he was unaware of the fact that working in the field of any federal commission investigating the circumstances of the accident. "I do not know why there is some federal commission, and everything is clear", – said Alexander Rolbinov. Interestingly, in Saturday's press secretary TPP-2 Ludmila Filatova, according to ITAR-TASS, in contrast, called the cause of power outages "a failure on one of the automatic transmission lines 330 kV, at which energy flows into the region flows through Lithuania." At the same time, according to Gazety.ru Governor Nikolai Tsukanov tied off with the prospects of Baltic NPP. "Disabling showed that the energy security of the Kaliningrad region are quite sharp, so the commissioning of the Baltic NPP is of great strategic importance" – he said, adding that with the beginning of the nuclear power plant in 2016, the Kaliningrad region will not depend on energy flow through Lithuania. Blackout occurred in their own interests and the company tried to use "Yantarenergo." Thus, the general director of "Yantarenergo" Michael Tsikel described it "collapse", which "should be all sober and lowered to the ground." The fact that "Yantarenergo" dissatisfied investment program of energy development, adopted by the Government of the Kaliningrad region in early 2011. The energy company is seeking approval of $ 5.5 bn. over the next 5 years, but regional authorities cut funding for the program "Yantarenergo" to 3.84 billion rubles. According to Tsikelya, this money is only enough to ensure the citizens' applications to join the network "Yantarenergo." "It is essential that laymen should not interfere in the debate on whether to have an investment program of energy development", – said Mikhail Tsikel. All Regional News