Moscow, 24 July 2017 – PJSC “Enel Russia” has appointed Ilya Novozhilov as a director of Konakovskaya GRES. In this position he will replace Viktor Tupitsin who finished his working activity at the power plant on July 7th and retired after having worked in power sector for 42 years.

Ilya Novozhilov started his career at Reftinskaya GRES, one of Enel Russia’s power plants, as a machinist-inspector on the boiler and on the turbine equipment. A year later he became a machinist of the power unit of 300 MW. Soon after there was an upward career development from a machinist of the power unit of 300 MW to Deputy Chief Engineer – Head of Department 300 MW Units. Since July 2016, prior his new appointment as a director of Konakovskaya GRES, he held the position of Chief Engineer of 300 MW Units, Reftinskaya GRES.

He has worked in power sector for 10 years now and has received many professional awards and certificates.

Ilya Novozhilov was born in 1983. In 2005 he graduated with honors from Ural State Engineering University with the specialty “Engineer of thermal power plants, the engineer”. At the same time he also received a second degree with the specialty “World economy”.

His native language is Russian, he also speaks English.