EuroSibEnergo has a $200mln plan for hydropower stations refurbishment in Siberia

EuroSibEnergo unveiled a $200mln-worth modernization program of its Siberian hydropower plants on the Angara and Yenisei rivers that will boost annual power output by 1.500 GW. New Energy, a complex modernization program of Krasnoyarsk, Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk plants, includes a replacement of the plants’ hydraulic components, 12 turbine runners, generator transformers and switchgear. It will boost the dams’ annual power output by 1.500 GW without increasing the amount of water resources in use. The company has invested $200 mln of its own capital to the program.
Modernization that is to be completed by 2018, will be equal to the construction of a new 400 MW hydropower facility. It will help to partly substitute energy generated by coal-fired plants and will save up to 800,000 tons of coal per year. The newly revamped plants will allow to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2mln tons per year what will improve ecological situation in Siberia.
After the modernization program is completed, EuroSibEnergo will continue to upgrade Irkutsk plant. New turbine runners and technologically advanced improvements will increase the plant’s capacity five-fold from 160 MW to 822 MW.