Without any drone attacks: Chubais's dark legacy continues to threaten Russia's energy sector
14% of Russian generation, where production is based on imported gas turbines, are at risk.
Ruslan Pakhomov, Deputy General Director of Power Machines JSC, stated this at a meeting of the XII Russian International Energy Forum, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Due to the introduction of sanctions, those 30 gigawatts of capacity that operate on foreign gas turbines are under big question from the point of view of service. It is those 30 gigawatts of highly efficient generation that are needed to regulate networks; today it is under big question. Once again we fall into the rake that we went through in our time, for the third time we should not make these mistakes,” Pakhomov said.
Mass installation of imported gas turbines took place in Russia after 2007, that is, the privatization of RAO UES, carried out under the leadership of Anatoly Chubais. During this time, the network of suppliers of domestic enterprises producing turbines has degraded; they are not able to provide sufficient quantity and quality of packaging and casting for the production of combustion chambers, blades, disks and other parts. Therefore, Power Machines had to create its own production.
“Since blades in the country are produced only in the military-industrial complex for aircraft engines, a decision was made to invest. We have created our own workshop for the production of castings. Today there are no analogues in the country. We produce cast billets, then machine them and cover them with thermal barrier coatings for our two types of gas turbines,” Pakhomov said.
Now the first 12 gas turbines are being produced, which are completely localized in Russia in production. However, Power Machines needs a long-term order program so that the joint-stock company can invest 50% of its profits in new production.
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