Alstom Grid and RTSoft sign Memorandum of Understanding to jointly offer electrical grid management solutions in Russia

The alliance demonstrates the strong commitment of both companies to partner with leading players in the Russian electricity sector and respond to the challenges they face today increasing grid stability and reliability to prevent blackouts, and making ageing grids more efficient, by meeting growing energy demand and reducing energy transmission losses.

We continue to invest in Russia through our partnership with RTSoft and remain committed in providing the innovative technology, experience, support and service that Russia needs to build a reliable, efficient and smart electrical network, says Jean-Michel Cornille, Senior Vice-President, Grid Power Electronics and Automation at Alstom Grid.

We are proud to collaborate with Alstom Grid and offer world-class quality network solutions for the Russian market. We are even more excited with the opportunity this partnership brings to adapt or develop local software features specifically for the Russian customers, says Olga Sinenko, General Manager of RTSoft.

About Alstom

Alstom is a global leader in the world of power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure and sets the benchmark for innovative and environmentally friendly technologies. Alstom builds the fastest train and the highest capacity automated metro in the world. It provides turnkey integrated power plant solutions and associated services for a wide variety of energy sources, including hydro, nuclear, gas, coal and wind, and it offers a wide range of solutions for power transmission, with a focus on smart grids. The Group employs 92,000 people in 100 countries and had sales of 20.9 billion in 2010/11.

Alstom Grid has over 100 years of expertise in electrical grids. Whether for utilities or electro-intensive industries or facilitating the trading of energy, Alstom Grid brings power to its customers projects. Alstom Grid ranks among the top 3 in electrical transmission sector with an annual sales turnover of more than 4 billion. It has 20,000 employees and over 90 manufacturing and engineering sites worldwide.

At the heart of the development of Smart Grid, Alstom Grid offers products, services and integrated energy management solutions across the full energy value chainfrom power generation, through transmission and distribution grids and to the large end user.

About RTSoft

Closed Joint Stock Company RTSoft is an innovative engineering company which takes the leading positions at the Russian market of industrial automation systems, software development and embedded computer technologies. The company was founded in 1992.

RTSoft has always been committed to the principle of staying a reliable business partner, pioneer and innovator in the field of high technologies. In the field of industrial automation systems, the company provides a wide range of services from delivering baseline software and hardware and out of the box software and hardware complexes up to consulting and implementing turn-key projects.

All the provided solutions are based on the software and hardware by the leading world producers and on RTSoft in-house developments on the basis of the forward-looking information technologies.

Solid engineering capacity, strategic agreements with foreign and domestic suppliers, a developed network of regional branches, own production sites and training center allow RTSoft to implement projects of any level of complexity.

RTSoft quality management system has been certified by TÜV NORD CERT to the ISO 9001:2008.

Press contacts

Alstom Grid

Emmanuelle Helleux: emmanuelle.helleux@alstom.com / Tel: + 33 1 49 01 70 87

Aline Besselièvre: aline.besselievre@alstom.com / Tel: + 33 1 49 01 69 04

Isabelle Tourancheau (Alstom in Russia): isabelle.tourancheau@transport.alstom.com /

Tel: + 33 1 57 06 19 81

RTSoft

Andrey Yakimenko: yakimenko@rtsoft.msk.ru / Tel: + 7 495 967 15 05