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GENERAL INFORMATION

Electric power plants incorporated in EES Rossii currently have an aggregate capacity of 167 million kW and annual output estimated at 660-680 billion kWh. The fixed assets of the EES Rossii branches have roughly been estimated at $320-340 billion. The national integrated energy system controlled by EES Rossii has a capacity of 205 million kW and an annual out put of 840-870 billion kWh. The company's power transmission lines, with a voltage of 35 kV and up, stretch for 640,000 km, while those forming the system and having a voltage of 400kV and stretch up to 37,000 km.

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EES ROSSII will put scheduled maintenance of all its subsidiary energy systems to tender in 1999, under an order signed by Anatoly Chubais, CEO of the company. The decision follows the successful tenders for 13 power plants, which helped to save 29% of the cost of maintenance.

Japanese firms plan to take part in upgrading of the Igumnovsky Thermal Power Plant in Dzerzhinsk in Nizhny Novgorod Region, a delegation of Japanese businessmen announced during a visit to the plant. Work on feasibility study should begin in January 1999.

The Russian-German INTERTURBO Company will complete the assembly of a V94.2-type 150MW gas turbine under SIEMENS license by the end of October. According to Valery Kondratiev, Director General of the joint venture, the turbo-unit will be supplied to a Central European country. In 1999 INTERTURBO plans to assemble 3 V94.2 and produce GTE-6 turbo units. The full capacity of JV will make it possible to assemble 12 gas turbines per year.

Power units with a total capacity of 320 MW were made operational at EES ROSSII power grids over the first nine months of 1998.

The Cheliabinsk based TETs-3 heat and power plant will be able to make its second power unit with a capacity of 210MW operational by the end of 1999. The announcement came from Vyacheslav Voronin, Director General of CHELIABENERGO. Regional power utility will relay on its own resources to finance the R650-million project.

According to the Russian State Statistics Committee, new turbine electric power plants with a total capacity of 64,300 kW were made operational in Moscow, the Sakha Republic, Stavropol Territory and Samara and Kamchatka regions from January through September 1998; 1,700 km-long electricity transmission lines with a capacity of 35kV and more were built, together with transformer and step-down substations with a total capacity of 762,200 kV/A. Over the same period rural areas received 269,000 km-long electricity transmission lines with a capacity of 6-20kV2,700 km-long lines with a capacity of 0.4 kV, as well as transformer and step-down substations with total capacity of 359,300 kV/A.

The American GLOBAL POWER, LIGHT AND WATER company is going to invest funds in the construction of three power units at the Mostovskaya thermal power plant in Krasnodar Region. The plant should take three years to build. It is intended to make the region, which has no cheap energy sources of its own, self-sufficient in power.

VOLGOGRADENERGO is considering building a major thermal power station in the area of the town of Kamyshin in Volgograd Region.

The administration from the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District has embarked on a programme to provide cheap energy to far-off areas of the region. Under the project, wind-driven energy plants and stations will be installed. The first station, manufactured by the Danish Wind World, was installed in the village of Kharp near the Polar Urals.

The Russian delegation has presented a pilot project on the comprehensive utilisation of coal and methane at the Raspadskaya Mine in Kemerovo Region to the UN European Economic Commission in Switzerland. The project, in particular, provides for using mine methane and coal suspension as fuel for a thermal power plant which will be built near the mine. The plant will generate enough heat and electricity for a city with a 100,000-strong population.

The US Caterpillar Company signed on October 27 a contract with Germany's Zeppelin GmbH on the transfer of dealership rights in central and northwestern Russia. The contract envisages that ZEPPELIN will supply CATERPILLAR equipment, spare parts and engines, as well as maintain and repair equipment from Bryansk and Kursk Regions south of Moscow to Murmansk and Archangelsk in the north, including Moscow and St. Petersburg. ZEPPELIN has been Caterpillar's dealer in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ukraine since 1954.

The Samara Regional Administration will be promoting energy savings by installing heat meters.

The EES Rossii board has decided that the YANTARENERGO Company may become a shareholder of KALININGRAD TETS-2. EES ROSSII, 64.9% Yantarenergo, 19.5%; and the Kaliningrad Regional Property Fund, 15.6%, will found the new company. The company was set up to continue the construction of the TETs-2 Thermal Power Plant in Kaliningrad. The first stage was conducted as part of the contract on joint activities.

PROLETARSKY ZAVOD in St. Petersburg has produced the first mobile gas turboelectric plant with a capacity of 1,500 kW for GAZPROM. In the next few years, the plant will manufacture up to 40 such plants for the Gas Company.

The first meeting of the international committee for5 co-operation of Baltic energy companies (BALTREL) was held in Kaliningrad on November 2. According to Anatoly Chubais, chairman of the EES ROSSII board, who took part in the forum, Russia's presence in Baltic energy projects will make it possible to increase the annual Russian export of energy from 12-14 billion kW/h. To this end, it will require nearly $5 billion.

In 1999,five per cent of St.Petersburg's budget allocations on energy will be used to introduce energy meters, said vice Governor Yuri Antonov.

Anatoly Chubais, CEO of EES ROSSII announced that the new team of managers will be established. That is the necessary move to implement the Programme for the development of Power Engineering Sector up to year 2003. He has cited that the development of energy exports as one of the company's priority tasks. To strengthen the financial state of the company the contract to supply energy to Poland will be signed soon. There are also options for the sale of electricity to Austria.

Finland's KPA Unicon OY has won a tender for the supply and installation of the two modular boilers in the 130^th district of St. Petersburg. The pilot project, designed to renovate the city historical centre, will be financed with an EBRD loan. The tender is attended by 13 companies from Russia, Germany, Finland and the United States. KPA Unicon offered the lowest price.
Delovoy Peterburg,November,No.122

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Power-Generating industry was mentioned as one of the most promising field for investments in St. Petersburg. According to Vladimir Yacovlev, the Governor of the city $48 billion in investment is expected to be made in the region before the year 2005.

The construction of the TETs-6 thermal power plant in Novosibirsk in a joint project with the French BOUYGUES and ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE companies will be carried out despite the financial crisis, stated Vitaly Mukha, the regional Governor. BOUYGUES has already earmarked $100 million to begin start-up work for the project.

The Danish Council for Centralised Heat Supply and Russia's TEK St. Petersburg (TEK SPB) Company are starting a pilot project worth 1 mln Danish crowns to upgrade one of the municipal gas boiler house. This announcement was made by TEK SPB deputy director Viktor Babaryko. The boiler, totally fitted with Danish equipment, is due to be commissioned for the next heating season. The payback period of the new boiler house, which will cut fuel consumption by 25%, is 2.5 years.

St.Petersburg's LENENERGO and Finland's IMATRAN VOIMA OY (IVO) have signed an agreement on direct supplies of electricity to Finland worth $15 mln. per year.

The MOSENERGO Company will shortly receive the first tranche of a credit from the EBRD and the International Financial Corporation (IFC) worth $50m. The funds are intended for the completion of the Zagorsk Pumped Storage Facility in Moscow Region.

GAZ de FRANCE will install a modular boiler of 1.56 Mw at the Petropavlovskaya Fortress museum in St. Petersburg. The project carries a price tag of FF 1.15 million, which the city administration will receive from the Gaz de France International Company.

The St. Petersburg LMZ and the ELEKTROSILA companies are beginning the production of hydraulic-turbine generators and stand-by equipment for the Balimela hydroelectric power plant in India. The contract was signed in 1995 and is estimated at $10 million. Delivery is scheduled to begin at the end of 1999 or the beginning of 2000.

Thirteen Russian and foreign companies took part in a tender for the delivery and installation of two modular boilers for the 130^th block in St. Petersburg. The equipment will be supplied as part of a pilot project for restructuring the city centre, financed by an EBRD loan. Under the terms of the tender the first boiler will be installed in May 1999, the second one in August.

Russia and Japan have created an investment company to promote direct Japanese investments in the Russian economy. The company is to operate for ten years.

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