Information technologies

The rollout of new projects, scaling up existing ones, and keeping up projects already running in the IT space is part of our ongoing efforts under the Digital Transformation Programme of PJSC Rosseti South for 2020–2030, which includes an action plan for PJSC Rosseti South to transition to the predominant use of domestic software.

Main focus areas:

• Ensuring cybersecurity, developing an information security system
• Switching to the predominant use of domestic software
• Introducing corporate information management systems for electricity metering and transmission and production assets
• Introducing and developing corporate centralised information systems
• Introducing and developing financial and business operations
• Optimising and developing the ITT-infrastructure
• Developing automatic process management systems
• Developing telecommunications
• Streamlining ITT business processes

In 2025, the main development area for information technologies is to ensure the Company’s customer-oriented approach, introduce smart metering systems, develop the Production Asset Management System (hereinafter referred to as PAMS), implement measures to transition Rosseti South to the predominant use of domestic software for the period of 2022 to 2025, and create a single information space between Rosseti South and Rosseti.

Corporate and process-related business applications

In 2024, the Company:

• Continued development of a unified corporate system based on 1C: Holding Management: automation of the grid connection, capital construction, procurement and maintenance, treasury, investment projects, and IFRS accounting subsystems.
• Put the system for planning the development of the below-35 kV power grid into commercial operation in the pilot zone of the Rostovenergo branch of PJSC Rosseti South.
• Put the federated message exchange subsystem of the EDMS into commercial operation.
• Continued development of external and internal electronic document management in a unified corporate system based on 1C: Holding Management.
• Put the single integration solution for the business processes of service provision and customer relations into commercial operation as part of the creation of the Unified Customer Relationship Platform of Rosseti Group of PJSC Rosseti South.
• Put into the software modules of the production asset management system were pilot operation.

Results of 2024

In 2024, all measures to implement the Digital Transformation Programme and the Action Plan for the transition of PJSC Rosseti South to the predominant use of domestic software for the period of 2022–2024 were taken as scheduled.

As of 31 December 2024, the percentage of expenditure on Russian software purchases was 98.35%. The target value for 2024 is 97.78%, which indicates that the KPI set by the General Director of PJSC Rosseti South for IT activities has been achieved.