Posted on 09/24/2006 3:29:54 PM PDT by jdm
China is ready to increase imports of electricity from Russia to 60 billion kWh by 2020, Nikolai Voropai, director of the Melentiev Energy System Institute, said.
At the request of Unified Energy System of Russia the institute and a number of other scientific institutions carried out an evaluation of the possibilities in Siberia and the Far East to export electricity to China, he said at an energy roundtable as part of the IV Baikal Economic Forum.
In 2008 China may increase consumption of Russian electricity to 10 billion kWh, by 2010 - to 20 billion-22 billion kWh, and by 2012 - to 30 billion kWh per year.
"China has requested quite large volumes of exports: by 2020 it is planned to increase supplies to 60 billion kWh. We are trying to figure out how it will be possible to gradually implement this project. In short, the main conclusions are: to ensure exports it is necessary to build new power plants and new units at existing power plants both in Eastern Siberia and in the Far East," Voropai said.
He said that the four options developed by the institute for developing energy companies in Siberia and the Far East to carry out exports to China are practically equal in significance.
These options involve the construction of a thermal power plant operating on gas from the Kovykta field, Berezovsky GRES-2 and Ural- GRES, Uchursky and Sredneuchursky hydro plants, the construction of Primorye Nuclear Power Plant and Svobodnenskoye GRES, and increasing the capacity of Primorye, Gusinozersky and Karanorsky GRES.
The first option involves supplies of electricity until 2012 from Primorye GRES (capacity supplied to China - 0.675 gigawatts), Ural GRES (2.4 gigawatts) Gusinozersky GRES (1.2 gigawatts), Kharanorsky GRES (2.1 gigawatts) and until 2020 - from Kovykta thermal power plant (6.4 gigawatts).
The second option proposes to start supplies of electricity from Kovykta thermal power plant by 2012 (capacity 4 gigawatts), Gusinozersky GRES (1.2 gigawatts), Kharanorsky GRES (1.275 gigawatts), and by 2020 to increase supplies - from Kovykta thermal power plant by 2.4 gigawatts and to start supplies from Svobodnenskoye GRES (1.8 gigawatts) and Ural GRES (2.4 gigawatts).
The third option is that by 2012 Kovykta thermal power plant (4 gigawatts) and a number of other existing power plants (2.6 gigawatts) would be given over to supplying exports to China, and by 2020 - Sredneuchursky Hydroelectric Plant (3.3 gigawatts), Ural GRES (2.4 gigawatts) and existing plants (0.9 gigawatts).
The fourth option proposes that by 2012 exports to China would come from Berezovsky GRES-2 (3 gigawatts), and Kharanorsky GRES (1.65 gigawatts) and existing power plants (1.95 gigawatts); by 2020 - Uchursky Hydroelectric Plant (3.7 gigawatts), Primorye Nuclear Power Plant (2 gigawatts) and existing power plants (0.9 gigawatts). Voropai said that a fifth option, according to which electricity would be exported to China only from the Kovykta thermal power plant (4.8 gigawatts) and existing power plants (5.2 gigawatts) does not suit the Chinese side.
Voropai also said that China has proposed the construction of a Skovorodino-Shenyan power line.
Trust me, you don't want any part of this. Bad money, corrupt businessmen, and two very untrustworthy governments are involved.
---the Sierra Club will put a stop to this---(snicker, giggle,giggle)--
Power to the people. And there sure are a lot of people there. And with a lousy environmental record.
Take a look at the returns for the mutual fund TMRFX which focuses on Russia.
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