The solemn opening ceremony of Yemelino substation took place in Sverdlovsk Region. Located within seventy kilometers of Yekaterinburg in Nizhneserginskiy district, the new power substation is to provide electricity to the parts of the region that experience the greatest shortage of it, such as industrial enterprises based in Pervouralsk, Revda, Polevskoy, and Yekaterinburg, including a new steel-smelting complex at Severskiy Pipe Works and Nizhneserginskiy Hardware Plant. In addition, Yemelino is expected to take part of the workload off Yuzhnaya substation that currently provides most of the electricity for Yekaterinburg, as this substation is being heavily overused.

The substation was put up within the framework of the federal power engineering development program. Yemelino is the result of the first part of the agreement signed by Sverdlovsk Region Government and RAO UES of Russia. The total cost of the investment project is estimated at 2.88 billion RUR.

All the construction and assembly jobs were performed by Ural Power Engineering Construction Company JSC that managed to put up the station in less than a year (April-December 2007). According to the company’s GD Leonid Golovko, this was possible thanks to a great number of highly skilled workers and great technical capacity the enterprise takes pride in. The solemn launching ceremony was attended by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel, head of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais, director of Urals’ Main Electrical Networks (local branch of FSK EES) Pavel Lazovskiy, Director of Ural Power Engineering Construction Company Leonid Golovko, and some representatives of the region’s industrial community.