Russia does not have turbines for Crimean thermal power plants
Moscow - Simferopol, December 5 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The Russian Ministry of Energy does not have a domestic supplier of gas turbines for the Crimean thermal power plant, and imported ones cannot be purchased due to sanctions. Plans for the construction of large-scale power plants on the peninsula are being disrupted due to the collapse of the Russian power engineering industry in the 90s.
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In energy-scarce Crimea, which is 80% dependent on supplies from Ukraine and faced power outages due to the country's fuel crisis, it was planned to build two large gas-fired thermal power plants with a total capacity of 770 MW. But the introduction by the European Union and the United States of a ban on the supply of energy equipment to Crimea actually negated the possibility of building large-block thermal power plants, the turbines for which are mainly imported.
Only the United Engine Corporation (UEC) GTD-110 turbine fits the requirements of Crimea, but it will not be finalized by the time these stations are built. GTD-110 is the only Russian high-power gas turbine, but the reliability of its operation is still in question. Gazprom Energoholding (GEH), which has this turbine installed at the Ryazan State District Power Plant, has been wanting to replace it with a foreign one for several years due to unstable operation, but so far this has not been possible. The GEH says that “the equipment needs significant improvement.” There are four such turbines in operation at the Inter RAO Ivanovo CCGT, one of which is currently in operation. Inter RAO reported that the GTD-110 is “innovative equipment that needs improvement.”
A pilot industrial prototype of the modernized GTD-110M should be created in the second half of 2017. Since the completion of the construction of a high-power thermal power plant in Crimea should take place in 2017, it is “not possible” to use the GTD-110M here, they said "To the businessman» top managers of the corporation.
According to Oleg Tokarev, head of the electrical industry and power engineering department of the department of metallurgy, machine tools and heavy machinery of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, power engineering in the Russian Federation was destroyed in the 1990s. According to him, power engineers have begun switching to foreign equipment. “There was a decline in orders, it was impossible to create new equipment, replicate it, and there was an insufficient level of government support. As a result, in 2013, the volume of orders to Russian enterprises decreased by 1975 times compared to 15, and by three times for turbines of all types,” the official explained.
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