Power industry has become a vital component of the modern Russian economy and electric power plants can be found in each federal district of this country, which makes power industry of strategic importance for ensuring economic security of the Russian Federation. Similar to other industries, electric power sector has its specific features and a set of related specific risks and safety hazards. The authors argue that threats, inherent in power plants, must be examined for identifying urgent issues and ways to cope with threats, caused by fuel resources shortages, drawbacks in power supply of the North-Caucasian Region and challenges of peaking capacitances seasonality at water-power plants.
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