The modernisation will boost the annual power of the plants by 1.5 billion kilowatts and will include a replacement of hydraulic components, 12 turbine runners, generator transformers and switchgear at the Krasnoyarsk, Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk plants. The company has invested 15 billion rubles ($200 million) in the programme which will be completed by 2018 and is equivalent to the construction of a new 400 MW hydropower facility. It will also partly displace energy generated by a number of coal-fired plants, saving up to 800,000 tons of coal per year and cutting Russian greenhouse gas emissions by 2 million tons per year.
“New Energy upgrade programme is a tool to leverage Siberian hydro energy potential as it will increase reliability of our hydropower plants and will satisfy Siberia’s need for clean energy” said Vyacheslav Solomin, CEO of EuroSibEnergo. “We are convinced that the future of Siberian energy industry should be fueled by advanced, clean and innovative technologies.”
EuroSibEnergo will mainly use home-made equipment to upgrade its HPPs while the turbine runners and high voltage transformers for Krasnoyarsk and Ust-Ilimsk HPP will be supplied by Power Machines, based in St Petersburg and one of the Russia’s largest developers of hydro, thermal, gas and atomic power stations.
Following completion of the modernisation programme, EuroSibEnergo will continue to upgrade plants in Irkutsk with new turbine runners and technologically advanced improvements, thereby increasing the plant’s capacity five-fold from 160 MW to 822 MW.
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