MODERNIZATION Kuban power plant cascade is delayed for 10 YEARS
`All the previous years, we were engaged in reconstruction and technical re-equipment, changed, updated or improved the performance of individual equipment. In the new project will be involved without exception equipment stations, main and auxiliary, and the waterworks#39;, - said Victor Macheyev.
In the first six months of 2012, a major overhaul of four units at two hydroelectric cascade:? 3 and 5, and PSP? 3 and 2 hydro-3.
Carried the bulk of the bed to straighten and strengthen the slope end section Barsuchkovskiy discharge channel. On Svistuhinskaya HPS replacement of T-1 and T-2. At GES-3 and GES-4 have replaced the power transformer T-101.
Design work is underway for a comprehensive renovation and modernization of the Cascade of Kuban power plant as part of the May 2011 agreement between JSC RusHydro `and` Alstom Hydro France. The project provides a comprehensive update of the cascade power plants. Approximate time of the modernization of 10 years.
In accordance with the signed contract Alstom will design, manufacture, supply and installation of equipment, as well as provide installation supervision services using advanced scientific base and the latest technology. The key event will be the introduction of automated technologies centralized management stations Kuban HPP cascade of Nevinnomysska.
In the I half of 2012, the station developed a branch of 649 million kWh of electricity, exceeding the target by 0.5%.