General Director of SGK Mikhail Kuznetsov: “Visually there is a lot of generation, but this is self-deception. SGK CEO wished double growth in coal-fired heat generation

Company: Siberian Generating Company LLC

Siberian Generating Company (SGK), one of the largest energy holdings in Russia, providing heat supply to the Kemerovo region, Krasnoyarsk and Altai territories, the Republics of Khakassia and Tyva, acquired the Novosibirsk energy company Sibeko.

General director of SGK Mikhail Kuznetsov told in an interview with TASS why SGC is increasing its assets, why the system for calculating heat prices using the “alternative boiler house” method is beneficial for everyone, and how power engineers can and should work with the authorities.

Mikhail Varfolomeevich, the day before you announced that the Siberian Generating Company has closed a deal to acquire a controlling stake in the Sibeko company, one of the largest enterprises in Siberia, which is engaged in the generation of thermal and electrical energy V Novosibirsk region. What results will the purchase of this energy company allow SGK to achieve?

— We expect that the profit of our company will increase, and not by adding the profits of the two companies. We see how we can improve Sibeko's activities. IN general outline We have been discussing plans for Novosibirsk for several years. But in order to talk about them more specifically, some time must pass. We need two months to be sure that this is not “manilovism”, not groundless dreams, but real, achievable things. Then it will be possible to talk about them specifically.

The details of the deal are still being worked out; such purchases are not made on the same day. As for the first numbers, yes, we acquired 78% of the shares. And I think in the future we will increase our own stake. SGK's business will grow by one and a half times, the total thermal power will increase by 53%.

We currently rank seventh in the world in heat sales, and in connection with the deal we will move to fifth or sixth place. And now we will definitely be among the hundred largest companies in Russia; before the acquisition we were only approaching the hundred.

Will the deal affect heat consumers in any way? Will anything change for them?

- It will not be reflected, the heat and electricity in houses will not disappear. Our ten years of experience in the market allows us to say with confidence that everything will be fine, and we do not see any problems in fulfilling our obligations to consumers.

There will not be a sharp increase in tariffs, although in Novosibirsk the tariff is, of course, understated, and this has a bad effect on the condition of heating networks. I think we can get by with an increase of a couple of percent above inflation.

Does SGC have an understanding of how much money needs to be invested in the heat generating infrastructure of Novosibirsk?

— The fact that there is somewhere to invest money right now can be said right away, without delving deeply into the essence. Just to understand the volumes, I can say that investments should be estimated in tens of billions. Exactly how much money will be required remains to be analyzed.

For example, we estimated the modernization of the heat supply system of Barnaul at 11 billion rubles, and Barnaul is much smaller than Novosibirsk and 2.5 times smaller in population.

We work in a tariff-based sphere, the rules of the game are set for us by the authorities, so it is impossible to talk about any investments without interruption from the authorities

We first want to understand what the specifics are, what the requirements are, what problems there are in Novosibirsk. There are always local peculiarities, in every city, in fact, if everything is good in heat supply, then everything is equally good. And if there are problems, then they are different every time, that is, each city is unhappy in its own way.

At the same time, we must remember that we work in a tariff-based sphere, the rules of the game are set for us by the authorities, so it is impossible to talk about any investments without leaving the authorities. We need to convince the authorities, primarily the region and the city of Novosibirsk, that this is necessary.

We have been conducting these negotiations for a long time. They started when there was no deal, even when it was not clear whether there would be one or not. It was important to us whether our arrival would be comfortable for the city and regional authorities and the population. And having made sure that there were no “contraindications”, we continued negotiations on the acquisition of Sibeko.

By the way, regarding power, in addition to leading a large energy company, you have extensive experience in public administration. You were, in particular, the governor of the Pskov region. How do you use this leadership experience when working with the authorities of new regions?

— It is probably difficult to imagine another business that would be so closely connected with the authorities as the energy industry. We provide the lives of millions of people, and for the authorities this issue is one of the first on the agenda. Therefore, no one intersects with the tasks of officials as much as companies working in the field of heat supply.

When I work and solve production problems, I always subconsciously think: what is the problem, and how should the authorities look at it? And here, four years of experience as a governor, of course, helps, you begin to look at things from the perspective government controlled.

What plans do you have for the current year? Are you considering the possibility of acquiring any other companies and further increasing your share in the Siberian market?

— We can increase our assets, and it won’t necessarily be Siberia. We are at Reftinskaya State District Power Plant (one of the largest thermal power plants in Russia, operating on solid fuel, located in Sverdlovsk region) We are negotiating, perhaps this will also end in something.

You see, I believe in coal-fired energy generation, which is widespread in Siberia. I think she's underrated right now. Many people say that generating heat by burning coal is last century that the future belongs to gas. I attribute this to the activities of those media that do not understand the subject very deeply.

In my deepest conviction, we would benefit greatly if the share of coal generation doubled. And I think that this will happen, maybe not in such volumes, but it will happen. We will definitely work in this direction.

Is this purely Siberian specific?

— To a greater extent, yes, Siberian, but also Ural. The proximity of Kuzbass with colossal coal reserves has an effect. IN central Russia Coal generation works worse. There it closes and is in the position of stepsons. To a large extent, our work is Siberia; we look at this region and know its energy.

SGK actively supports the “alternative boiler house” method for calculating heat supply tariffs. This model does not provide for the regulation of tariffs by the state, as now, but the establishment, by agreement of the parties, of only the maximum heat price level for the end consumer - the “alternative boiler house” level, which will be used as the maximum and guarantees return on investment. What do you expect from this model?

- Predictability. In order to invest billions without hesitation, we need clear rules of the game, we need to understand what the tariffs will be and under what conditions we will work tomorrow. With the “alternative boiler room” model, the authorities give us this predictability.

If today people in Novosibirsk understand that there was an increase in tariffs for objective reasons, then no one understands what will happen in a year, people are wondering what will happen after the elections

Everyone wins in such a situation. The consumer benefits because the reliability of the entire system increases. The authorities will win, because enterprises that operate in the territory and do not make ends meet will begin to earn good profits and pay taxes on this profit.

But people need to be told about this, so that there is no speculation, so that there are no rumors about whether this is good or bad, whether tariffs will skyrocket, whether consumers will pay more for heat. We need to explain what will happen.

Nobody likes the current situation of unpredictability; if today people in Novosibirsk understand that there was an increase in tariffs for objective reasons, then no one understands what will happen in a year, people are wondering what will happen after the elections. And in the case of the “alternative boiler room” we have inflation, the level of which we focus on. To solve the accumulated problems, we need to increase the tariff by 1-2% for some time, and then we will live, like the whole country, focusing on the inflation rate.

I think that in a year or two we will implement this model in a large region and show in practice that it is good.

Recently, in the regions of Siberia, they often return to the topic of energy and heat shortages. In your opinion, how relevant is this issue now, and what ways to solve this problem exist?

- You know, if only Soviet Union If he hadn’t built three times more than he needed, then perhaps he wouldn’t have collapsed. They have created so much thermal power that it is difficult to both use and maintain them. Now is the time to think about reducing power generation capacity. thermal energy. There is no city that does not have a double supply of them, and maintaining this supply costs money. So don’t even worry about the heat, we don’t face any shortages.

But there really are questions regarding electricity. It would be wise to build new capacities. There are plans to introduce new aluminum smelters in Siberia in the next decade, and they are very energy intensive. It would really make sense to build new capacities for them.

Recently, meteorologists declared a regime of unfavorable meteorological conditions in large Siberian cities due to emissions into the atmosphere; for Krasnoyarsk, a “black sky regime” in winter is generally a regular occurrence. You work in these cities, what plans does SGC have to reduce the burden on the environment?

— First of all, it is necessary to generate electricity at stations that are equipped with the most modern equipment cleaning, and where it is not installed, install it. But thermal power generation will never even come close to car emissions.

Even if we magically switch to electric heating, the environmental situation will not change much. For example, I can say that the most disadvantaged cities in this sense are heated with gas, take Chelyabinsk for example. So it is not coal energy that is the cause of the unfavorable environmental situation.

At the same time, we understand our responsibility for influencing environment and in all the cities where we operate, we pay close attention to environmental issues. In the same Krasnoyarsk that you mentioned, we have begun a large-scale project for the environmental modernization of the city’s oldest thermal power plant, which will allow us to significantly reduce emissions into the atmosphere. We are now actively developing the direction of selling ash and slag waste, and have carried out procedures to convert it into ash and slag materials.

In general, environmental issues are among our priorities today; we are constantly monitoring the impact of our facilities on nature, we clearly understand where some problems exist and how to solve them. And, of course, we are working on this. This, among other things, gives us confidence that coal generation can operate efficiently and with minimal impact on the environment, which means confidence in its future.

Russian company specializing in construction and engineering. Organizationally, it is a holding, which includes Management Company(LLC "Stroygazconsulting") and manufacturing enterprises. SGK carries out the development of oil and gas condensate fields, construction and major renovation pipelines, highways.
The total number of specialists working at the company's enterprises exceeds 60 thousand people. The fleet of machines and mechanisms includes more than 14,000 units of equipment.

"Story"

The company was founded in 1996 by Russian entrepreneur of Jordanian origin Ziyad Manasir.

In 2009, 65% of the company's turnover came from Gazprom contracts. Forbes magazine pointed out in its publication a possible connection between the fact that Stroygazconsulting became one of the largest recipients of construction contracts from the gas monopoly and the state and Manasir’s connections with figures close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as the inclusion of such persons among the co-owners of the company (for example, Olga Grigorieva, daughter of the former head of the St. Petersburg FSB Directorate and friend of V. Putin, General Alexander Grigoriev).

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The new owners of Stroygazconsulting on a parity basis were UCP and

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"News"

The Timchenko family turned out to be the owner of 50% of a large contractor Gazprom

Businessman Gennady Timchenko told RBC that together with his family he owns “at least half” of one of Gazprom’s largest contractors, Stroytransneftegaz. It was previously known that Timchenko himself owns 31.5% of the company

The businessman himself said that Timchenko and his family own “at least half” of Stroytransneftegaz, answering a question from an RBC correspondent on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the Russian-Chinese Business Council on Wednesday, February 8.

Stroygazconsulting received a new contract from Gazprom for 35 billion rubles.

The company received a contract for the construction of 235 km of this pipeline to China worth 35.22 billion rubles. It's about about the section “KS-3 Amginskaya - KS-4 Nimnyrskaya 794.8 km - 1029.8 km.”

To be in St. Petersburg: Stroytransgaz and Stroygazconsulting are moving to St. Petersburg

As Forbes found out, of the three largest construction contractors of the gas monopoly in Moscow, only Stroygazmontazh of Arkady Rotenberg will remain

Stroygazconsulting (SGK) will complete its move to St. Petersburg by September, when renovations are completed at the new office, a source close to the company told Forbes and was confirmed by a former employee. Forbes' interlocutor at one of Gazprom's competing contractors added that SGK only has one department left to move.

Baysarov became the main shareholder of Stroygazconsulting for $5 billion

The structures of businessman Ruslan Baysarov increased their share in Stroygazconsulting to 74.1% by purchasing the shares of Ziyad Manasir, who was the main owner of the company. Baysarov’s representative reported this to RBC. In December 2013 The entrepreneur’s structures acquired 30% of Stroygazconsulting.

Timchenko strikes back: ARKS complained about the competition on the Central Ring Road

ARKS does not agree with the victory of Ziyad Manasir’s company in the competition for the construction of the Central Ring Road. In March, Manasir challenged Gennady Timchenko’s right to a Gazprom contract. The ARKS company, in which Gennady Timchenko’s structures own a stake, complained to the Federal Antimonopoly Service about the competition for the construction of the first stage of the Central Ring Road for 49 billion rubles. She is challenging the victory of Stroygazconsulting Ziyad Manasir. Previously, two large contractors competed for Gazprom’s money, now any large infrastructure government contracts are in their interests.

Stroygazconsulting won the competition for the construction of the Central Ring Road

04/29/2014, Moscow 15:10:54 Avtodor has selected a winner for the right to build and maintain the first launch complex of the Central Ring Road (CRR) with a length of 49.5 km. It was Ziyad Manasir’s Stroygazconsulting company, which proposed to build the Central Ring Road for 48.88 billion rubles.

Stroygazconsulting may lose the contract for the construction of the Murmansk transport hub

Part of the funds is redirected to transport projects in the Azov-Black Sea region

Stroygazconsulting changes customers

Gazprom's oldest contractor expands its presence in other sectors

Gazprom will not reduce construction, although it has questions for builders

Gazprom is preparing to revise this year's investment program upward. The plan, approved at the end of 2011, amounted to almost 777 billion rubles. (versus 1.3 trillion last year). However, following the results of the first quarter, the program was increased to 843.8 billion, Yaroslav Golko, member of the Gazprom board of directors and head of the investment and construction department, announced today. And in August-September the investment plan may be revised again - also upward, he added.

Manasir bought half of the offices in Tower 2000 from Zanadvorov

The founder of Stroygazconsulting, Ziyad Manasir, bought about 15,000 square meters from the co-owner of the Seventh Continent store chain, Alexander Zanadvorov. m of office space in Tower 2000 at Moscow International business center“Moscow City,” the Kommersant newspaper writes on Wednesday.

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Stroygazconsulting will pay off Polonsky’s debts

To the company " International Center development”, owned by businessman Ziyad Manasir’s Stroygazconsulting, has filed for bankruptcy. Thus, a group of architects is trying to collect debt for work on designing the layout of the Mirax Plaza complex, which is planned to be built opposite the Moscow City International Business Center.

Yuri Komarov: We can long and persistently declare that there must be Russian equipment

Vice President of Stroygazconsulting LLC Yuri Komarov in an interview with the Agency gas information noted: “We can long and persistently declare what should be Russian equipment. But it all starts with design and procurement management, as well as the engineering process at the specification stage. If we do not manage design, procurement and are not involved in the engineering process, the result will always be the same - the equipment will be what those who manage these processes are used to. If these are foreign EPC contractors, then the answer is obvious.”

Urgently! The general director of the company that built a road in Yamal for Gazprom was detained. He is placed in a temporary detention center and is awaiting preventive measures.

In November last year, information appeared in the press that Igor Nak’s business (which is about 50 companies) was being bought by Russia’s largest oil and gas contractor, Ziyad Manasir’s Stroygazconsulting company. At the same time, Manasir is buying not only the road construction business, but also companies that own licenses for deposits in Yamal.

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Russian kings of government procurement - ranking according to Forbes magazine

2. Head of Stroygazconsulting Ziyad Manasir, who received orders worth 728 billion rubles from Gazprom, Transneft and Rosavtodor. Manasira's company is one of the largest pipeline builders for Transneft.

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Yuri Kogtev: Yuri Komarov argues with Alexey Miller

Perhaps by seeing Yuri Komarov retire from the post of chief executive director Shtokman Development AG in June 2010, the management of Gazprom believed that it had said goodbye forever to the former head of Gazprom Export, who was 65 years old at the time of his resignation. But Yuri Aleksandrovich reminded himself: on February 13, he answered Interfax’s questions in his capacity as vice president of Stroygazconsulting LLC.

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Ziyad Manasir laid his paw on Gazprom's polar empire

For Yamburggazinvest employees, problems began on January 29, 2009, when the new management of the company gathered them in the hall of one of the modules. Total for repair area about 1,200 people work; those who were not working at that moment were present at the meeting. “On January 29, two citizens of Ukraine, the Yakibchuk brothers, who are considered the leaders of the Urengoy Yamalmekhanizatsiya (a division of Stroygazconsulting) arrived and announced that from February 1 we will all be moving to Stroygazconsulting (more precisely, a division of Stroygazconsulting-North).

The energy company was headed by Andrey Melnichenko’s long-time partner

The Siberian Generating Company (SGK) has changed its general director: Sergei Mironosetsky, who headed the SGC since 2009, gave up his chair to Mikhail Kuznetsov, who joined the company’s board of directors several months ago. The new general director has known the owner of SGK, Andrey Melnichenko, for many years: the first project, which later turned into MDM Bank, was organized by businessmen while studying at the physics department of Moscow State University.

Yesterday, the board of directors of the Siberian Generating Company (the main owner is Andrey Melnichenko’s Siberian Energy Investments Ltd; the businessman also owns SUEK through another offshore company) appointed a new general director. This was Mikhail Kuznetsov; the former head of the company, Sergei Mironosetsky, will remain on the board of directors, SGK reported.

Sergey Mironosetsky has been working with Andrey Melnichenko since 2005, when he became Deputy General Director for Energy, Mergers and Acquisitions of SUEK. The top manager has headed the Siberian generating company since its founding in 2009 (SGK was created to unite the Siberian energy assets of Andrei Melnichenko). The energy holding emphasizes that the general director left his post due to at will, “there was no conflict with the shareholder.”

An RBC daily interlocutor at the market says that Sergei Mironosetsky has long been planning to resign and for now, most likely, will rest. Among the vacancies on the energy market, the position of general director of Eurosibenergo is now “hanging”, where Sergei Mironosetsky worked as financial director in 2001-2003. The company reported to RBC daily that the decision on the appointment of a general director has not yet been made.

It will be easy for the new head of SGC Mikhail Kuznetsov to find mutual language with the owner. Businessmen studied at the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University at approximately the same time, where already in their first years Andrei Melnichenko and his friend Evgeniy Ishchenko organized a private trading enterprise, Mikhail Kuznetsov soon joined them. After some time, the friends focused on “money trading” and created the MDM Bureau, which then received a banking license. The trio separated in 1997 - Melnichenko bought out the shares of his friends. “They chose a different fate for themselves, were elected deputies to the State Duma, went into politics and decided to leave business,” the businessman said in an interview with Vedomosti.

Now Mikhail Kuznetsov, having worked as a State Duma deputy (from 1995 to 2003) and governor of the Pskov region (2004-2009), is returning to his friend’s business. At the end of his governor’s term, he told reporters: “I’ll find something to do if I want to. My friends call me - let's do this project, let's do that one. I’ll go and meet my friends, I rarely see them, they live with me in Moscow, and I’m here. We’ll discuss something over a glass of tea, maybe something will interest me” (quote from the newspaper “Pskov Province”).

At SGK, Kuznetsov will have to improve the company’s financial performance (one of the two energy divisions of the Kuzbasenergo company had a loss of 843 million rubles at the end of 2012), as well as fight non-payments in the retail heat market (in the summer, SGK’s receivables increased to 7. 8 billion rubles, almost one and a half times higher than the costs of the repair program).

"Siberian Generating Company"CEO

Education

Graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Moscow state university named after M.V. Lomonosov.

Professional experience

Worked in Premier and MDM banks in various positions.
In December 1995 he was elected deputy State Duma Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the second convocation (1995–1999), was Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Budget, Taxes, Banks and Finance.
In December 1999, he was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation (1999–2003) in single-mandate constituency No. 141.
In 2001, he became chairman of the supervisory board of the Pskov flour mill.
From 2004 to 2009 he served as governor of the Pskov region.
Head of SGC since October 2013.

Hobby

Hunting, studying the history of Ancient Rome.

About company

Siberian Generating Company (SGK) is an energy holding company operating in the territory of Altai Territory, Kemerovo region, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Novosibirsk region, Republic of Khakassia, Republic of Tyva. Main activities – heat production
and electricity, transmission and supply of heat and hot water to consumers. The Group includes 4 state district power plants, 1 gas thermal power plant and 18 combined heat and power plants with a total installed electrical power 10 GW and thermal capacity – 23.9 thousand Gcal/hour, as well as heating network with a total length of 8,700 km, repair and service companies, the largest management company in Krasnoyarsk. SGC stations account for about 23–25% of heat and electricity generation in the Siberian energy system. The number of personnel of the SGK Group companies is more than 31,000 people.

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Coal generation is underestimated, said Mikhail Kuznetsov, general director of the Siberian Generating Company. He doesn't think coal heat generation is a thing of the past.

Kuznetsov gave an interview to the TASS agency after the announcement of the purchase of the Novosibirsk company SIBECO.

“You see, I believe in coal-fired energy generation, which is common in Siberia. I think she's underrated right now. Many people say that generating heat by burning coal is a thing of the past, and that gas is the future. “I attribute this to the activities of those media outlets that do not have a very deep understanding of the subject,” the top manager noted. “In my deepest conviction, we would benefit greatly if the share of coal generation doubled. And I think that this will happen, maybe not in such volumes, but it will happen. We will definitely work in this direction.”

Kuznetsov clarified that in central Russia coal generation is “closing,” and in Siberia “the proximity of Kuzbass with colossal coal reserves is having an effect.” Let us remind you that residents of Krasnoyarsk have already held several rallies for the conversion of boiler houses and thermal power plants to gas.

SGK supports the “alternative boiler room” method for calculating heat tariffs. Maximum cost per gigacalorie for everyone settlement is not regulated by the state, but is established by agreement of the parties. The tariff should increase gradually.

“Nobody likes the current situation of unpredictability; if today people in Novosibirsk understand that there was an increase in tariffs for objective reasons, then no one understands what will happen in a year, people are wondering what will happen after the elections,” said Kuznetsov. — And in the case of the “alternative boiler house” we have inflation, the level of which we focus on. To solve the accumulated problems, we need to increase the tariff by 1-2% for some time, and then we will live, like the whole country, focusing on the inflation rate. I think that in a year or two we will implement this model in a large region and show in practice that it is good.”

SGK owns 17 thermal power plants and state district power plants in the Kemerovo region, Altai and Krasnoyarsk territories, Tuva and Khakassia. The basis for the company’s infrastructure was energy facilities that were previously part of Kuzbassenergo and Yenisei TGC, transferred from Siberian Coal energy company", which is one of the largest coal mining enterprises in the Russian Federation. SGK and SUEK are controlled by Andrey Melnichenko.