The article is devoted to the issues concerning provision of reliability and safety of electric power supply and their relation with professional training of operational personnel of the industry. Modern requirements to simulator-based training of the personnel have been reviewed. The data on the changes in current legislation on provision of purchases of goods and services has been shown. The reasons for the Russian electric power industry personnel training system falling behind the world level have been reviewed.

The solution to the problem of decreasing the fuel oil specific consumption for generation of heat energy at boiler plants, as well as improvement of emission characteristics of boiler plants through molecular modification of fuel oil by electric fields have been shown. Technology of molecular modification of fuel oil was developed by “SPA MMT” Ltd., and is being introduced in the heat power engineering of several regions of Russia, in particular Yaroslav region.

The issues of energy saving during the operation of centrifugal pumps which are used in various cycles of heat and water supply systems through the use of structured organic films have been reviewed. The relation between energy efficiency of these films and a pump specific speed has been defined.