UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 10, 2015. Yekaterinburg EXPO, which is currently housing the Innoprom 2015 Exhibition, consumed 6.42 megawatts worth of power: this is ten times more than the exhibition center’s average consumption rate and a record of sorts, Oblkommunenergo’s press service reports.

‘One of the center’s two access points was using 0.3 megawatts per hour on the first day of the exhibition. This is the amount the entire facility normally consumes within a whole day,’ says head of Oblkommunenergo Yekaterinburg division Yegor Gerasimov.

The center was designed with the Hanover Fair energy consumption experience in mind, so the projected capacity for Yekaterinburg EXPO stands at 10 megawatts. However, the center has never reached this level of power consumption so far: in 2011, for example, the daily amount was 3.7 megawatts during the Innoprom days,’ says Oblkommunenergo Development Director Marina Kasyanova.

The power-use rate depends on the employment of energy-consuming objects on display at the pavilions, such as the large moving exhibits and electric power-driven mechanisms. To ensure power supply for these, a cable was placed in the concrete floor, with access points in all the critical spots, as early as at the construction stage.