16 февраля 200610:24
Bauxite ore maker of Severouralsk launches energy saving program
Sevuralboxitruda JSC, bauxite ore maker of Severouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region, has successfully launched an energy saving program. Thus, the company’s electricity bills comprised 241 million RUR in 2002 but 227 million a year later and only 216 million in 2004, which meant the general decrease in electricity expenses from 13.4% to 7.2% within three years. According to the company’s chief power engineering specialist Vasiliy Molodtsov, the savings program still ran in 2005, for instance, in terms of wiser use of compressed air in the mines. Cheremukhovskaya mine compressor was equipped with a