A tender started for awarding a master contract for construction of a CHP plant in Sovetskaia Gavan

The contract award is scheduled for June 2014.

A contract for performance of construction and installation works will only be signed upon completion of a state expert review of the project cost estimates, completion of an independent technical and price audit, and removal of restrictions regarding financing of the project by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation (regulating authority).

The rated electrical output of the first stage of the CHP plant will be 120 MW, and the heat output will be 200 Gcal/hr. The project provides for construction of the on-site infrastructure for next stages which will allow increasing the electrical output of the plant up to 360 MW.

Urgal coal (G type) is supposed to be used as fuel for generation of thermal and electrical energy. Construction is scheduled for completion in 2016.

The new CHP plant in the town of Sovetskaia Gavan has a strategic importance for a currently growing special port economic zone which provides construction of a multi-functional port and ship-repair center, container and coal terminals, as well as fish and seafood processing facilities. New capacities are supposed to replace the outdated equipment of Mayskaya GRES by providing electrical power and heat to customers of the residential and industrial sector of Sovetskaia Gavan and the nearest inhabited localities. Besides, construction of the CHP plant will be performed with due account of the electrical load of the Baikal-Amur Mainline.