General Director of JSC Tyumenenergo (part of PJSC Rosseti) Sergey Savchuk will be officially removed from his position today, and the board of directors will appoint a new top manager. According to Savchuk himself, information about the reasons for his departure will become known in the coming days. However, Rosseti has already unofficially named a number of probable reasons: the company’s disastrous financial results – a 100-fold drop in revenue and an increase in accounts payable, an unprecedented decrease in productive output. In addition, market participants, speaking about a change of manager, point to constant conflicts with territorial grid organizations (TGOs), PJSC FGC UES, officials in the regions of presence, as well as the management of the parent company. Rosseti insiders name a former official from Orenburg as a possible new general director of Tyumenenergo JSC, but such a candidacy raises many questions among industry experts and market participants due to non-core work experience, “personal business interests in Yamal and dubious episodes in biographies."
According to the agenda of the board of directors of Tyumenenergo JSC, today, October 17, the powers of Tyumenenergo JSC General Director Sergei Savchuk will be officially terminated ahead of schedule, and a new head of the company will be appointed. Sergei Savchuk himself did not comment on the reasons for his departure. “An official press release will come later. Most likely, tomorrow,” the manager told Pravda UrFO.
Former General Director of Tyumenenergo JSC Sergey Savchuk
Let us clarify that information about the upcoming dismissal of the top manager of Pravda UrFO was confirmed last week by several sources at Rosseti PJSC. According to insiders, the most obvious reasons for dismissal may be the company's disastrous financial results.
Let us remind you that in the “daughter” of Rosseti Sergey Savchuk came from the position of deputy director of the State Unitary Enterprise "Krymenergo". On June 3, 2015, he was appointed acting deputy general director for investment activities of OJSC Tyumenenergo, and on December 31 of the same year he began working as first deputy director. Then on October 11, 2016, Savchuk became acting. general director, and already on April 3, 2017, by decision of the board of directors, he got rid of the prefix. In this position he replaced his predecessor Pavel Mikheeva.
It is noteworthy that financial problems in one of the country's largest distribution systems, according to observers, began immediately after the arrival of the new leader. JSC Tyumenenergo began to generate losses from the first quarter of 2017. Subsequently, the company demonstrated negative financial results on a quarterly basis. The subsidiary of Rosseti PJSC closed the year 2017 with a record low profit of 23 million rubles. Compared to 2016 In 2018 Savchuk It also failed to stabilize the situation: for six months of operation, the company reported a loss of 1.2 billion rubles. At the same time, revenue decreased significantly and OPEX indicators increased. According to industry analysts, at the end of 2018 Tyumenenergo is unlikely to be able to show good financial results.
As Pravda UrFO's interlocutors at Rosseti point out, the decision to dismiss Savchuk The execution of the investment program, which experts call “failed,” could also have had an impact. “For some reason, Savchuk began to actively climb into high-voltage networks (from 220 kV) related to the area of responsibility of PJSC FGC UES, as well as into municipal low-voltage networks (0 ,4 kV). This kind of dispersion against the backdrop of losses led to the fact that the company, apparently, had no funds left to fulfill its own obligations, which pushed for an increase in accounts payable,” a source at Rosseti shares his vision of the situation.
Experts also point to an increase in the structure's obligations. Thus, if at the end of 2017 the enterprise’s long-term debt burden amounted to 1 billion rubles, then within six months of management Sergei Savchuk it increased to almost 2.9 billion rubles. Short-term liabilities also jumped by almost half a billion rubles. Market participants note that financial imbalances were also accompanied by “a failure in production indicators - in 2018, the company reduced productive output by 20%.”
“All this happened against the backdrop of regular conflicts with colleagues at FGC UES, neighboring territorial grid organizations, Rosseti management and employees of Tyumenenergo itself. Savchuk was appointed by the previous CEO of PJSC Rosseti Oleg Budargin. After a change of leadership in Moscow and appointment to this position Pavel Livinsky the manager of the Tyumen subsidiary was unable to establish relations with the new team. Moreover, the head of Tyumenenergo aroused real popular anger with a series of staff reductions,” an insider of Pravda UrFO at PJSC FGC UES shares his opinion.
As Pravda UrFO previously reported, conflicts with the main networks and, probably, personally with the head of the branch of PJSC FGC UES - MES of Western Siberia - Alexey Maltsev the manager of Tyumenenergo began after the latter’s attempts to include 220 kV facilities in his investment program. It should be noted that networks with voltages above 110 kV fall under the competence of PJSC FGC UES. In fact, as energy experts point out, such assets are non-core for a distribution network company. However, Tyumenenergo is doing its best to include them in its investment program. The last such incident was associated with a large-scale construction project to provide technical connection to the fields of Rosneft PJSC in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
According to the company’s investment program, in 2019 work will begin on two large titles at once: “a 220 kV superstructure at a 110 kV substation with a 220 kV overhead line Svyatogor - Ugutsky” and “design of a 220 kV superstructure at a 110/10 kV Batovo substation with a 220 kV overhead line.” The total cost of the objects is estimated at more than 3 billion rubles. The company plans to complete the work by 2021. It is noteworthy that the source of financing for the technical connection was not the applicant’s fee, but the tariff. That is .
In addition to the confrontation with FGC UES during his leadership Sergei Savchuk Tyumenenergo has undertaken. In particular, the company tried to challenge lease agreements between a number of small municipalities of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and JSC UTEK-RS (controlled by the district government and STS Corporation LLC), which strained relations not only with the adjacent TSO, but also with officials. Representatives of local authorities believe that the company planned to take away all the lots, but the Rosseti subsidiary failed to cancel the results of the auction.
Now the main contender for the position of general director at Rosseti is the ex-founder and current general director of Yamalspetsstroy LLC. Alexandra Melikhova. The businessman worked in the Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Orenburg Region, from 2007 to 2009 he was Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Orenburg Region, from 2009 to 2010 he worked as the First Deputy Chairman of the regional government. From 2011 to 2015 he worked as executive director of JSC NPO Rosenergomontazhspetsstroy named after. V.A. Bonesko - the general contractor of Gazprom JSC on the construction of the Eastern Dome of the North Urengoy gas condensate field and Gazprom Neft JSC on the project for the comprehensive reconstruction of the internal and external energy supply of the Moscow Refinery. From 2015 to 2016, he was an adviser to the general director of Stroytransgaz JSC. Melikhov has been a member of the United Russia party since October 2006 and is also a member of the presidium of Opora Rossii. It should be noted that Yamalspetsstroy is also a participant in Rosneft purchases worth 12 billion rubles.
General Director of JSC Tyumenenergo (part of PJSC Rosseti) Sergey Savchuk will be officially removed from his position today, and the board of directors will appoint a new top manager. According to Savchuk himself, information about the reasons for his departure will become known in the coming days. However, Rosseti has already unofficially named a number of probable reasons: the company’s disastrous financial results – a 100-fold drop in revenue and an increase in accounts payable, an unprecedented decrease in productive output. In addition, market participants, speaking about a change of manager, point to constant conflicts with territorial grid organizations (TGOs), PJSC FGC UES, officials in the regions of presence, as well as the management of the parent company. Rosseti insiders name a former official from Orenburg as a possible new general director of Tyumenenergo JSC, but such a candidacy raises many questions among industry experts and market participants due to non-core work experience, “personal business interests in Yamal and dubious episodes in biographies."
According to the agenda of the board of directors of Tyumenenergo JSC, today, October 17, the powers of Tyumenenergo JSC General Director Sergei Savchuk will be officially terminated ahead of schedule, and a new head of the company will be appointed. Sergei Savchuk himself did not comment on the reasons for his departure. “An official press release will come later. Most likely, tomorrow,” the manager told Pravda UrFO.
Former General Director of Tyumenenergo JSC Sergey Savchuk
Let us clarify that information about the upcoming dismissal of the top manager of Pravda UrFO was confirmed last week by several sources at Rosseti PJSC. According to insiders, the most obvious reasons for dismissal may be the company's disastrous financial results.
Let us remind you that in the “daughter” of Rosseti Sergey Savchuk came from the position of deputy director of the State Unitary Enterprise "Krymenergo". On June 3, 2015, he was appointed acting deputy general director for investment activities of OJSC Tyumenenergo, and on December 31 of the same year he began working as first deputy director. Then on October 11, 2016, Savchuk became acting. general director, and already on April 3, 2017, by decision of the board of directors, he got rid of the prefix. In this position he replaced his predecessor Pavel Mikheeva.
It is noteworthy that financial problems in one of the country's largest distribution systems, according to observers, began immediately after the arrival of the new leader. JSC Tyumenenergo began to generate losses from the first quarter of 2017. Subsequently, the company demonstrated negative financial results on a quarterly basis. The subsidiary of Rosseti PJSC closed the year 2017 with a record low profit of 23 million rubles. Compared to 2016, the figure fell 100 times. In 2018 Savchuk It also failed to stabilize the situation: for six months of operation, the company reported a loss of 1.2 billion rubles. At the same time, revenue decreased significantly and OPEX indicators increased. According to industry analysts, at the end of 2018 Tyumenenergo is unlikely to be able to show good financial results.
As Pravda UrFO's interlocutors at Rosseti point out, the decision to dismiss Savchuk The execution of the investment program, which experts call “failed,” could also have had an impact. “For some reason, Savchuk began to actively climb into high-voltage networks (from 220 kV) related to the area of responsibility of PJSC FGC UES, as well as into municipal low-voltage networks (0 ,4 kV). This kind of dispersion against the backdrop of losses led to the fact that the company, apparently, had no funds left to fulfill its own obligations, which pushed for an increase in accounts payable,” a source at Rosseti shares his vision of the situation.
Experts also point to an increase in the structure's obligations. Thus, if at the end of 2017 the enterprise’s long-term debt burden amounted to 1 billion rubles, then within six months of management Sergei Savchuk it increased to almost 2.9 billion rubles. Short-term liabilities also jumped by almost half a billion rubles. Market participants note that financial imbalances were also accompanied by “a failure in production indicators - in 2018, the company reduced productive output by 20%.”
“All this happened against the backdrop of regular conflicts with colleagues at FGC UES, neighboring territorial grid organizations, Rosseti management and employees of Tyumenenergo itself. Savchuk was appointed by the previous CEO of PJSC Rosseti Oleg Budargin. After a change of leadership in Moscow and appointment to this position Pavel Livinsky the manager of the Tyumen subsidiary was unable to establish relations with the new team. Moreover, the head of Tyumenenergo aroused real popular anger with a series of staff reductions,” an insider of Pravda UrFO at PJSC FGC UES shares his opinion.
As Pravda UrFO previously reported, conflicts with the main networks and, probably, personally with the head of the branch of PJSC FGC UES - MES of Western Siberia - Alexey Maltsev the manager of Tyumenenergo began after the latter’s attempts to include 220 kV facilities in his investment program. It should be noted that networks with voltages above 110 kV fall under the competence of PJSC FGC UES. In fact, as energy experts point out, such assets are non-core for a distribution network company. However, Tyumenenergo is doing its best to include them in its investment program. The last such incident was associated with a large-scale construction project to provide technical connection to the fields of Rosneft PJSC in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
According to the company’s investment program, in 2019 work will begin on two large titles at once: “a 220 kV superstructure at a 110 kV substation with a 220 kV overhead line Svyatogor - Ugutsky” and “design of a 220 kV superstructure at a 110/10 kV Batovo substation with a 220 kV overhead line.” The total cost of the objects is estimated at more than 3 billion rubles. The company plans to complete the work by 2021. It is noteworthy that the source of financing for the technical connection was not the applicant’s fee, but the tariff. That is, consumers in three regions will have to pay the technical price.
In addition to the confrontation with FGC UES during his leadership Sergei Savchuk Tyumenenergo has made several attempts to take over municipal 0.4 kV networks. In particular, the company tried to challenge lease agreements between a number of small municipalities of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and JSC UTEK-RS (controlled by the district government and STS Corporation LLC), which strained relations not only with the adjacent TSO, but also with officials. Representatives of local authorities believe that the company planned to take away all the lots, but the Rosseti subsidiary failed to cancel the results of the auction.
Now the main contender for the position of general director at Rosseti is the ex-founder and current general director of Yamalspetsstroy LLC. Alexandra Melikhova. The businessman worked in the Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Orenburg Region, from 2007 to 2009 he was Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Orenburg Region, from 2009 to 2010 he worked as the First Deputy Chairman of the regional government. From 2011 to 2015 he worked as executive director of JSC NPO Rosenergomontazhspetsstroy named after. V.A. Bonesko - the general contractor of Gazprom JSC on the construction of the Eastern Dome of the North Urengoy gas condensate field and Gazprom Neft JSC on the project for the comprehensive reconstruction of the internal and external energy supply of the Moscow Refinery. From 2015 to 2016, he was an adviser to the general director of Stroytransgaz JSC. Melikhov has been a member of the United Russia party since October 2006 and is also a member of the presidium of Opora Rossii. It should be noted that Yamalspetsstroy is also a participant in Rosneft purchases worth 12 billion rubles.
Information about the likely approval of the candidacy of Alexander Melikhov was confirmed to Pravda UrFO by two sources at once. However, insiders, as well as industry experts, have questions about Melikhov’s biography and competencies, which raises doubts about the possibility of his appointment. “Firstly, the person has obvious interests in Yamal, which falls within the Tyumenenergo area of responsibility. Secondly, there are dubious spots in Melikhov’s biography. Thirdly, he does not belong to any of the influence groups in Rosseti. In addition, there is information in the media that in the late 90s a criminal case was allegedly opened against him for fraud,” says a source close to Tyumenenergo.
Pravda UrFO will continue to monitor developments.
According to a number of media reports, General Director Sergei Savchuk left his post. Presumably, at the end of last week the top manager wrote a statement of his own free will. The press service of the electric grid giant has not yet commented on the situation. They only promise that the official press release will be sent to all media in the city in the coming days.
Let me remind you that Sergey Savchuk moved to Tyumenenergo from Krymenergo in 2015 to the position of First Deputy General Director. Since the fall of 2016, he served as the acting head of the electric grid company and only six months later he was appointed to a leadership position by the board of directors. I would like to note that before his career in the energy sector, Savchuk served as a military contractor for almost 20 years. Meanwhile, various publications in the region are publishing possible reasons for the resignation of Sergei Savchuk. One of them could be the negative financial results of Tyumenenergo, which this year are lower in a number of positions than last year. What is the real state of affairs at Tyumenenergo, perhaps the largest electricity supplier in the region?
A manager without staff or functionality. This is the brief title of the story that was told to us by Dmitry Vyalkov, a current employee of Tyumenenergo. He has been heading the Customer Relations Department at the company since 2006. His total work experience at the company is almost 20 years of impeccable service. However, for the last six months the energy engineer has been, as he himself puts it, in limbo.
“My department at the company has shrunk. Moreover, in fact, employees have been transferred to other departments for a long time, functionality has been transferred to other departments. They hinted: “Come on, comrade, voluntarily, or some action will be taken,” says Dmitry Vyalkov, head of the Tyumenenergo customer relations department.
And action was not long in coming. So, for example, on the eve of a vacation, a power engineer received a task that, from his point of view, was impossible in terms of timing and fact. A person responsible for interacting with customers was tasked with developing a plan to reduce unaccounted for electricity consumption, given only a few days to do it.
“For my part, I took certain actions. In terms of that: I explained as best I could that this was wrong. And now, from the point of view of this task, I am in arrears - as unfulfilled,” he claims. Roughly speaking, according to Dmitry Vyalkov, he was forced in every possible way to write a letter of resignation in order to avoid layoffs and the corresponding financial costs. After all, the employer by law must pay the laid-off employee an average monthly salary for three months from the date of dismissal. And, as the energy engineer himself, who has experienced more than one change in management, says, he does not remember such a mass departure of personnel “at the employees’ own request.”
“I view my situation specifically as a reason to make a statement that such actions are widespread at the enterprise. That is, we are talking about forcing workers to resign. In all the time that I observed with the change of leadership, I have never observed such a personnel policy, such a purge. It’s obvious to me that this is not normal,” he says.
What is the reason for this personnel policy of the largest enterprise in the city and region? As an option, with the position of top management on systematic staff optimization. So in the new structural diagram, the Department headed by Dmitry Vyalkov no longer exists, although the person is still listed in this position. In part, the company could resort to such tricks because of the financial situation as a whole, which at Tyumenenergo, judging by open data, leaves much to be desired. As can be seen from the open reporting published on the company’s website, income in 2018 for such items as “Gross profit”, “Profit before tax” and “Net profit” is several times lower than in 2017. So what are these massive purges that are already legendary: cutting costs for ineffective personnel, eliminating unwanted but competent specialists who would not tolerate the arbitrariness of narrow-minded management, or management has finally lost its shores and has no interests for the benefit of production and qualified personnel anymore does not exist - only the short-term financial result of a group of individuals? We can only guess. Energy workers comment sparingly on what is happening.
"New Day", became a former official Alexander Melikhov. This decision was unanimously adopted on October 17 by the company’s board of directors. Melikhov’s candidacy was nominated by a member of the board of Rosseti PJSC Valentin Mezhevich. He presented his protégé with a brief certificate stating that Melikhov graduated from Stavropol State University in 2005, and from Moscow Pedagogical University in 2006.
Recently, a candidate has not stayed in one job for more than a year. So, according to the certificate, from 2011 to 2015 he worked as the executive director of JSC NPO Rosenergomontazhspetsstroy named after. V.A. Bonesko”, from 2015 to 2016 he was an adviser to the general director of Stroytransgaz JSC, from 2016 to 2017 he was the general director of JSC NPO SVAROG, since 2017 he has been the general director of Yamalspetsstroy LLC, the co-founder of which is a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Maxim Kagansky, notorious in the case of corruption in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow. Federal media call Kagansky a major Moscow “fixer” who, for large rewards, helped businessmen solve problems with law enforcement agencies.
Open sources say that in the early 2000s, Alexander Melikhov worked in the Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation, then in the government of the Orenburg region, and then went into business. You can find information online that he started his career at car depots in Rostov-on-Don. Previously, Melikhov allegedly bore the last name Antonenko, had problems with the law, registered several companies in Moscow under other people’s names and became involved in mediation in the field of energy equipment.
Melikhov was elected general director without the acting prefix. and immediately for three years.
The reasons why it was decided to terminate the contract with the current director of Tyumenenergo early Sergei Savchuk, unknown. According to one version, there were financial claims against him - at the end of the six months, the company received a loss of 2.3 billion rubles. However, as sources in the company told New Day, this is not Savchuk’s fault.
On April 3, 2017, by decision of the Board of Directors, Sergei Savchuk was elected General Director of Tyumenenergo JSC (part of the Rosseti group of companies).
Sergei Savchuk was born on March 28, 1977 in the city of Grozny, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1998 he graduated from the Military Academy with a degree in Jurisprudence, in 2002 he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation with a degree in State and Municipal Administration. From 1993 to 2011 he served in military service under a contract. He entered the energy sector in 2011: he gained experience in managing both electric grid and energy supply companies, and is well acquainted with various aspects of the innovative development of the industry.
Sergey Savchuk has been working at Tyumenenergo since June 2015: he oversaw investment activities, then was appointed first deputy general director, and from October 11, 2016, acting general director. He believes that the priority both in management and in work for all employees should be the interests of the company and its sustainable development. Based on this, all decisions should be made and their possible consequences assessed.
“Tyumenenergo has a great future,” Sergei Savchuk is sure. — Firstly, we occupy a unique segment of the electrical grid complex of Western Siberia: in two of the three constituent entities of the Russian Federation, which are the zone of our activity - Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug - we operate mainly a 110 kV backbone network, being, in fact, a sub-main power grid company . At the same time, in terms of a number of operational indicators - the level of losses, reliability and some others - we work more efficiently than our colleagues.
Secondly, in these regions the company traditionally provides energy supply to entire industries, primarily the oil and gas complex, which are developing dynamically, setting the corresponding dynamics for the energy sector. The Arctic region is now actively developing, and we are directing significant efforts there to improve the reliability of networks, and are thinking through plans for further development in the north. Thirdly, we have a team of more than seven thousand first-class specialists; we have created an excellent material base for the operation and repair of networks, one of the best in the country.”
It should be noted that the results of work in 2016 and their assessment by various communities confirm that the emphasis in the company’s activities is set correctly and allows Tyumenenergo not only to maintain a leadership position in the industry, but also to strengthen the image of an enterprise that is of high importance for the socio-economic development of the Tyumen region , Ugra and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
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