10 Oct 2024 14:10

Rostec's TPE launches third generating unit at Udarnaya power plant with Russian heavy duty turbine

MOSCOW. Oct 10 (Interfax) - Russian power plant builder Technopromexport (TPE), a division of state corporation Rostec, has launched the third generating unit at the Udarnaya Thermal Power Plant, which was built using Russia's first domestic heavy duty gas turbine, the GTD-110M.

The launch ceremony, in which President Vladimir Putin took part by video conference call, was broadcast on TV channel Rossiya 24.

The 560 MW Udarnaya TPP in Krasnodar Territory was built under the competitive capacity offtake mechanism for new power generation at a cost of 60 billion rubles. The investment will be recovered with payments from industrial electricity customers. But the mechanism also includes capacity delivery obligations.

The plant was initially scheduled to go into operation in April 2021, but the launch was pushed back to 2023 and then to 2024 due to the reconfiguration of the project, with, among other things, the inclusion of a generating unit with a GTD-110M turbine.

In light of this, the Energy Ministry came up with a gradual attestation mechanism for the plant. "They will deliver power from two turbines, and build another GTD-110M turbine in May 2024. If they don't build it, then we'll take everything that they received for the first two turbines," then Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Snikkars said in the fall of 2023.

The first generating unit at the plant went into operation in March 2024 and the second was launched in April 2024. The total capacity delivered to the market now amounts to 456 MW.