All voting members of the board unanimously supported the candidature of Kopsov, 63.
Earlier, at a June 6 sitting the board approved the resignation of general director Arkadi Yevstafiev, tendered by him last Saturday.
On Saturday, June 3, at a conference with members of the Security Council Vladimir Putin said that more and more frequent failures in the energy grids in recent time are an indication of obvious problems in the managerial system.
"I draw the attention of the government chairman to the cynicism and obvious professional impropriety of the Mosenergo management," the president said.
The May 25 fire at the outdated Chagino substation entailed blackouts of electricity consumers in some parts of Moscow and populated places in the Moscow, Kaluga and Tula regions. In Moscow several metro lines and electric trains stopped, water and electricity supply in some parts of the city, also hospitals and social facilities, was suspended. Disabled traffic lights triggered huge jams, 20,000 passengers had to be evacuated from the metro, 1,500 people were blocked in house elevators.
According to the RAO United Energy Grids CEO Anatoli Chubais, power supply in the Moscow region was fully rehabilitated by 16 hours on May 26.
The prosecutor's office initiated a criminal case on the massive blackouts.
In the preliminary information of the Moscow prosecutor's office, the power supply accident has done a damage of over 1,700 million rubles (1 dollar equals 28.45 rubles).
A professional power engineer, Kopsov has been in the Mosenergo board of directors since 1996. In 1996 through 2004 - chairman of the board.
