Sustainability

Sustainable Development Goals

EKRA is an active participant in the UN Sustainable Development Goals implementation

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their associated targets are global in nature, universally applicable, while taking into account different national capacity conditions in development levels and respecting national strategies and priorities. Currently, measures aimed at achieving the UN SDGs in the Russian Federation are integrated into national projects and other strategic and policy documents, including doctrines, state programs, and concepts.

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EKRA actively participates in the implementation of nationwide and worldwide tasks aimed at ensuring a balance in solving socio-economic problems and tasks of preserving a favorable environment and natural resource potential to meet people’s needs.

It is impossible to single out any of the UN SDGs in terms of importance, since they represent an inseparable development complex of basic aspects of the country’s life: social, environmental, and economic. Depending on their specialization and their capabilities, each individual and each business is involved to a greater or lesser extent in the implementation of each of these goals. Given our company’s competence and specialization, our activities ensure the achievement of the following goals, including but not limited to:

good health and well-being,
self-realization and talent development,
sustainable cities and communities,
decent work and economic growth,
digital transformation,

formulated and adopted in the outcome document of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 held at UN Headquarters, “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, as a 15–year “blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.”

EKRA pays great attention to the company’s compliance with ESG principles: an increased focus on environmentally friendly production (E), implementation of social programs (S), and responsible corporate governance (G). As an active participant in the implementation of digital technologies and digital transformation in the power industry and other sectors of the economy since its inception, our company uses all its competencies to achieve society development goals, in particular, through associated UN SDGs:

Goal 1: EKRA actively supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are outside the scope of the company’s activities, and promotes their implementation by the company’s partners

Goal 2: EKRA actively supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are outside the scope of the company’s activities, and promotes their implementation by the company’s partners

Goal 3: EKRA actively supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are outside the scope of the company’s activities, and promotes their implementation by the company’s partners

Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Cooperation with secondary and vocational schools
Cooperation with higher education institutions
Professional development for specialists

Goal 5: EKRA actively supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are outside the scope of the company’s activities, and promotes their implementation by the company’s partners

Goal 6: EKRA actively supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are outside the scope of the company’s activities, and promotes their implementation by the company’s partners

Goal 7: Providing access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all

Providing reliable power supply to consumers
Providing sustainable green energy sources to reduce CO&sub2; emissions and increase access to electricity
Reducing economy energy intensity and people’s life activities

Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Continuous development of the company in order to increase its contribution to the economic development of the Chuvash Republic and the Russian Federation
Creation of new high-tech jobs with comfortable working conditions, including for people with disabilities
Provide vocational training for undergraduates and full-time students at special workplaces

Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Development of high-tech production in the Chuvash Republic and introduction of innovative products in the power industry of the Russian Federation
Increasing the production sustainability and reducing environmental load
Production process optimization

Goal 10: EKRA actively supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are outside the scope of the company’s activities, and promotes their implementation by the company’s partners

Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Providing reliable power supply to consumers
Reducing economy energy intensity and people’s life activities

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Reducing production energy intensity
Increasing the production sustainability and reducing environmental load
Production process optimization

Goal 13: EKRA actively supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are outside the scope of the company’s activities, and promotes their implementation by the company’s partners

Goal 14: EKRA actively supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are outside the scope of the company’s activities, and promotes their implementation by the company’s partners

Goal 15: EKRA actively supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are outside the scope of the company’s activities, and promotes their implementation by the company’s partners

Goal 16: EKRA actively supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are outside the scope of the company’s activities, and promotes their implementation by the company’s partners

Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Providing reliable power supply to consumers
Reducing economy energy intensity and people’s life activities

Amount of university and college students who have undergone practical training at EKRA

*during the pandemic

Cooperation with physics and mathematics schools in order to organize students’ research activities

Organizing students’ research activities in cooperation with physics and mathematics schools

Organization of the annual school Olympiad “Chuvashia’s Electrical Engineering Hope”

Organizing annual school Olympiad “Chuvashia’s Electrical Engineering Hope”

Cooperation with consumer training centers in order to create training simulators based on real equipment

Creating training simulators based on real equipment in cooperation with consumer training centers

EKRA investment in staff professional development (thous. USD)

*during the pandemic

Employees who have completed the training are given the opportunity to:

Accelerate career progress

Take a leadership position to develop new product lines and science-intensive services

Sochi Olympics 2014: Dzhubga Thermal power station

Vostochny Cosmodrome: Vostochny Substation, Vostochny Central Power Distribution Station of the Industrial Construction and Operation Base, Aerodrome Substation

Novoport Cluster of Gazprom Neft PJSC: Sever DSS

Erginsky Cluster of Rosneft PJSC: Erginskaya DSS, Vykatnaya DSS, Rosseti Tyumen JSC — Rosseti PJSC (2020)

Providing reliable power supply to critical public facilities of national significance

Providing reliable operation of the Integrated Power System backbone power centers in Russian Federation

410

power stations

550

330–1,150 kV substations

2,150

35–220 kV substations

nuclear power stations

Providing carbon-free generation hookup to the Integrated Power System

Hydro power plants 93

Nuclear power plants 15*

Wind power plants 7

Solar power plants 12

*5 of them abroad

Energy saving at industrial and municipal facilities

Power motor control systems

67
industrial plants

Electricity metering systems

37
facilities

Headcount at EKRA

*during the pandemic

EKRA is a socially oriented employer

The company employs people in accordance with the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, all workplaces have been subject to a special assessment of working conditions, and a class of working conditions has been established, according to which benefits and compensation are provided in compliance with current legislation

8 doctorate students and 63 undergraduates were given jobs with optimal working hours at the company

The company employs 12 people with disabilities

Comfortable workplaces for people with disabilities have been created, including two specialized workplaces

Social package applicable at the company in addition to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation includes:

Routine breaks for all staff (coffee breaks at the employer’s expense)
Provision of sports facilities (swimming pool lane rental, gym rental)
Supplementary retirement benefits
Financial aid for childbirth, wedding, death of close relatives, and employee anniversaries
Annual long-service allowance for at least 5 years of service
Employee accident insurance

Expenses for corporate and sports events (thous. USD)

Corporate

Sports