ODU Yuga employees are winners of the corporate Case Solving Championship

The corporate case championship among young employees of JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System" was held from April 22 to May 7.

The championship was held in a remote format, 11 teams of young specialists competed in it, representing all operational zones of the Integrated Dispatching Departments of the System Operator.

The participants were invited to initiate a strategic project in the electric power industry, which could become a source of creation or development of technologies for the electric power industry and related industries in the long term. The teams had to justify their decision, give examples of its application in the future for 10-20 years, and also propose a mechanism for the implementation and sustainable development of the initiated project.

Workers ODE to the South The KIUM 100 team offered their ideas on the prospects for the development of Russia's energy sector from the introduction of advanced technologies based on modern scientific discoveries. "Based on the results of the analysis, two technologies were selected, the use of which can lead to organizational and technological changes in the industry, contribute to energy transition, and also provide the country with reliable and stable energy sources," Veronika Bershatskaya, captain of the team, Category 2 specialist in the Electrical Modes Service of the UDA of the South, said in her speech to the expert commission.

The young specialists of the ODU South team proposed the implementation of the strategic project "Energy Dyad", where low–power nuclear power plants are used as sources of electricity generation, and a unique technology is being developed - magnetohydrodynamic generators. As the project progresses, the cost of implementing new technologies will decrease significantly, the authors of the project believe, and the result of implementing the Energy Dyad may have a multiplier effect with a positive impact on several industries at once – nuclear energy, medicine, materials science, agriculture, the military-industrial complex and space engineering.

"The result of solving the task is the implementation of two unique strategic projects in the electric power industry, which will become drivers of the development of not only the fuel and energy complex, but also related industries," said a member of the UDE Yuga team, Chief specialist of the Electric Modes Service. Rostov RDU Dmitry Chub.

"The idea of our project arose as a result of a difficult brainstorming based on the analysis of strategic documents on the development of Russian energy, global trends in the energy sector and the possibility of using unique technologies. A special feature of the solution is the balance between the practical component – the introduction of small nuclear generation, and the scientific one – the research and development of a magnetohydrodynamic generator and the development of the country's energy engineering. Separately, it is necessary to cancel its practical feasibility, as well as the uniqueness of the technologies used," Veronika Bershatskaya added.

The expert commission, which included representatives of all operational areas of the System Operator, appreciated the solution of the case by the KIUM 100 team, awarding it points that allowed young employees of the UDA of the South, North Caucasian RDU and Rostov RDU to take the first place. The second place in the qualifying stage was taken by the team ODE to the Urals "If not us, then the cat", the third place is the team The Center's ODE "Resistance is useless."

"My colleagues and I decided to take part in the corporate championship for the first time, because this is a great opportunity to prove ourselves, as well as gain unique experience, get acquainted with new technologies and trends in the industry. We have developed a cohesive team, each member of which has made a significant contribution to achieving our result. The third place among strong and experienced colleagues is a worthy result. Many thanks to our mentor, the head of the Relay Protection and Automation Service Lipetsk RDU Andrey Pisarev and our colleagues, who supported and insured us in our main work," said Dmitry Smirnov, Deputy Head of the service, Head of the Relay Protection and Automation Department of the Lipetsk RDU Relay Protection and Automation Service, who served as the captain of the ODU Center team.

"The participants of the championship showed high erudition and knowledge in the field of advanced technologies in the electric power industry, professionally approached the development of proposals for the development of existing and the use of new technologies aimed at innovative development, expanded the horizons of their interests in the professional field," said Artem Mogin, Chairman of the expert commission, Deputy head of the Personnel Development Department of the System Operator.

The Corporate Engineering Case Solving Championship has been held in the System Operator for the second year in a row. Last year, the first place was taken by the So team of the ODU Center, which then became the winner of the final of the League of Young CIS Specialists of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship. This year, the winning team of the corporate case championship will also represent the System Operator in the finals of the League of Young Specialists of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which will be held in Moscow from May 28 to May 30, 2024.

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