Deputy General Director of PJSC RusHydro Alexander Charikov

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At the round table "Digital Transformation of the Fuel and Energy Complex: Development Prospects", which was held as part of the Russian Energy Week - 2022, Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia Eduard Sheremetsev called the situation with bringing the systems used in the industry into compliance with the requirements of Federal Law 187-FZ difficult. According to him, Russian legislation on the protection of critical information infrastructure (CII) in switzerland cell phone number listgeneral does not take into account the industry specifics, but in the energy sector this problem is especially pronounced. Thus, the requirement for a complete transition to domestic systems, including PAK and PTK, by January 1, 2025 is at least difficult to implement, since it directly contradicts the current regulations for equipment replacement. Plus, most PAK and PTK have not exhausted their resource, and their unscheduled replacement will be a great burden for energy companies, whose tariffs are strictly regulated.
stated that the company operates about 300 automated process control systems, which are built on the basis of foreign PAK and PTK. Their decommissioning is impossible without stopping the generating capacities, which requires lengthy preparatory work and coordination with JSC System Operator of the Unified Energy System. In addition, shutting down generating capacities reduces the energy security of the entire country. Alexander Charikov proposed replacing the equipment with domestic equipment on a planned basis, as the existing one depreciates. There are no major difficulties with replacing the software (SW).

Deputy General Director for Digital Transformation and Energy Projects at Zarubezhneft JSC Vyacheslav Sinyugin supported the idea of ​​using existing equipment until its resource is exhausted. He emphasized that an unscheduled replacement would mean a loss of billions of rubles for the company.

As Vitaly Siyanov, Business Development Manager for the Solar Integration Department at RTK-Solar LLC, reminds us, critical information infrastructure entities have just over two years to meet the requirement to switch to domestic PAC and PTC, and in a number of industries there is simply no domestic replacement for the equipment used there. "Resolving this issue in such a short time frame seems difficult to implement, since it is difficult to replace specialized industrial equipment, and there are prerequisites that the deadlines may be shifted," said Vitaly Siyanov. "In practice, such projects can take about two years: this is how long it usually takes from design to implementation of the system in the infrastructure, provided that there are similar solutions on the market. Even where migration projects have already been launched, enterprises are faced with a shortage of components and a lack of guarantees for delivery times. In addition, in some cases, there are simply no domestic technologies to replace foreign industrial equipment and protective equipment. A striking example is Yokogawa Electric or Honeywell equipment. It can be predicted that enterprises will comply with the requirement where possible. However, in a number of industries, for example, in the petrochemical or oil refining industry, critical information infrastructure entities will most likely be forced to continue using foreign solutions."