Power supply plan for Crimea to cost 71 bln rubles - ministry
MOSCOW. April 24 (Interfax) - Russia's Energy Ministry has selected an option for supplying electricity to Crimea that will cost about 71 billion rubles, the ministry said on Wednesday.
The option involves building at least 700 MW of gas-fired generating capacity on the Black Sea peninsula. The power plants will be located in Simferopol and Sevastopol. The plan calls for building two double-circuit 500 kV lines between Buzhora and Feodosia and the expansion of the 500 kV Buzhora substation located in Anapa, as well as building the 220 kV Simferopol-Feodosia line.
There are also plans to build a 600 MW thermal power plant in Novorossiysk and power lines from Krasnodar Territory to Crimea - the 500 kV Kuban-Buzhora and 500 kV Rostov-Buzhora.
It was previously expected that the power supply plant would be selected by May 1. Crimea currently has four combined heat-and-power plants with combined capacity of 143 MW: the 68 MW Simferopol plant, 30 MW Kamysh-Burunskaya, 33 MW Sevastopol and 12 MW Sakskaya. The shortage of capacity on the peninsula amounts to 1299 MW.
