1.8. Business IT

The constant increase in the standards of Unipro PJSC activities entails the need to ensure the reliability and information security of the business.

The use of modern information technologies (IT) allows to optimise business processes, automate routine operations, and, as a result, affects the performance and increases the efficiency of the Company. In addition, information security tools and systems reliably protect commercial secrets, rights of employees in the information environment and also ensure the safety of data and infrastructure.

The key drivers for the development of information technology in the Company are as follows:

Results of the development of information technologies in 2018

During the reference period, the Company focused on changes aimed at automating business processes, improving the reliability and stability of information systems and infrastructure, as well as reducing IT risks.

In order to meet the needs of some Company’s divisions, certain areas of activities were automated.

Legal Unit
  • A claim management module was implemented (including in the wholesale electric power/capacity market)
Procurement Unit
  • Automation of agreements on prices and discounts in purchase requests and functionality of low-value contracts was implemented
Financial Unit
  • Automation of budgeting in terms of needs and obligations was provided
  • Accounting for income and expenditure items of the directory of budget classification codes was updated
Production Unit
  • A functional to control the execution of works on the restoration of Power Unit No. 3 of Berezovskaya GRES was introduced
Power Markets Unit
  • Functionality of CSA price calculation was implemented
Staff Unit
  • Tools for document scanning and recognition were implemented
  • Automated recruitment system was implemented
Accounting Unit
  • Additional functions for salary review and cash compensation calculation were automated
  • VAT rate change accounting in rolling contracts was introduced
  • Online payment support features were implemented
Operational Excellence Unit
  • A service for receiving and evaluating rational proposals from Company employees was created

ALEXEY MINISAEV

Deputy Head of Production and Technical Service of Yaivinskaya GRES

Of course, I feel personally responsible for uninterrupted operation, since all my family, quite literally, is linked to the plant.

It all started in 1962, when Vasily Minisaev, my father, arrived to Yaiva with his three comrades-in-arms, after finishing his service in the Pacific Fleet. At that time, young people from all over the Soviet Union were gathering to participate in construction of the HPP. At first, the ex-sailors were working in Uralenergomontazh and then transferred to the Boiler Turbine Shop after a corresponding request from above. My father also met his future wife, Rufina Andrianovna, at the plant and worked there for 40 years until the retirement. My father was also entrusted to work at energy facilities abroad, in Iraq. For his long work, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

That man who devoted his whole working life to the HPP is still interested in the effective operation and the future thereof. My father still cares about the plant operation, and we often talk about it: how many power units are operating, what the load is.

I’ve been working at the plant since 1996, my brother — since 1984, and our wives have been working here for many years as well. We continue the work of our fathers; we use new work techniques and optimise the production.

The Production and Technical Service of our plant employs 17 people, and each of us has lots of responsibilities, including uninterrupted and feasible operation of the equipment, lack of reprimands from the regulating bodies, and performance indicators in general. Modern control systems display most of equipment parameters on a screen, which, naturally, optimises our functions while preserving the original goals: to evaluate the plant performance during a given day or month and determine ways to increase the efficiency of equipment operation based on the collected data.



In the reporting year, in the interests of the entire Company new business intelligence reporting panels were created and the existing ones were modified. In addition, the duty journey coordination function was significantly simplified, individual functions of the corporate portal were refined, the corporate e-mail system was modernised, and data transmission channels between Unipro PJSC branches were updated.

In order to improve the internal processes of support and development of information technologies, all the changes made were recorded in the internal regulatory IT documents.

Plans for 2019

Following the path of improving its functions, Unipro PJSC in the coming year plans to upgrade the unified distributed control system for financial and economic activities. For real time monitoring of the status of business processes based on actual data, the Company’s IT department plans to implement the Process Mining technology.

Important initiatives adopted for implementation in 2019 are also as follows: