The total investment programmes will reach RUB3.1 trillion ($119 billion) with UES companies spending over RUB1.8 trillion ($69 billion) on new power projects and with as much as RUB1.3 trillion ($50 billion) going on grid infrastructure development.
The investment programme envisages construction of combined-cycle power plants, requiring over 100 gas turbines, 67 steam turbines, and 125 waste heat recovery boilers. Over 70 steam turbines are needed for the large-scale construction of coal-fired power units with circulating fluidized bed combustion, VIR-technology, and ultra-supercritical boilers. Furthermore, the energy industry will need over 150 transformers with a combined capacity of 50,000 MVA to be installed at the power plants, 260 turbine generators with the capacity of 45,000 MW, and 48 boiler plants with 45 t/h steam generating capacity.
In addition, the UES hydro arm, HydroWGC, will need 45 hydroturbines with a combined capacity of 5,000 MW, 43 generators, and 18 transformers with a capacity of 3,500 MW. A further 25 hydro turbines with the combined capacity of 252 MW and 25 generators are needed to modernize the small-scale hydro plants.
By 2011, collectively UES intends to build 34,200 MW of new generating capacity with over RUB630 billion ($24 billion) spent on principal thermal power equipment such generators and turbines. Procurement of high-voltage equipment and materials for bulk transmission grids will make about RUB200 billion ($7.6 billion) by 2011, UES said.
