VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The Power Machines Open Joint Stock Company is the leading Russian producer and provider of turnkey solutions in energy machine-building including engineering, production, supply, assembly, maintenance and modernisation of equipment for thermal, nuclear, hydraulic and gas turbine power plants.
The company includes world-famous Russian energy machine enterprises: the Leningrad Metal Works (founded in 1857), Elektrosila (1898), Turbine Blade Plant (1964), the Kaluga Turbine Plant (1946) and Power Machines-Reostat Plant (1960).
The Power Machines Company is the fourth largest plant in terms of the amount of installed equipment (7% of the total world volume). The plant's share of the energy equipment market in Russia and the CIS is 70%.
Energy equipment produced by Power Machines branches has been installed in 57 countries. The company has produced more than 2,700 steam turbines, 2,550 turbo-generators, 700 hydraulic turbines and 600 hydro-generators with an installed capacity of over 300,000 mW.
The plant's portfolio of orders as of December 31, 2009 was 112.8 billion roubles, which is 13% more than in 2008. The Russian power industry is the priority market for the company.
At the same time Power Machines retains the leading position in its traditional markets in South East Asia, Latin America, the CIS and Europe.
The company has more than 100 ongoing projects aimed at modernising and developing the power industry in Russia and other countries, the most significant of which are the supply of equipment to restore the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant (ten 640-mW units), supply of units for the Novovoronezhskaya Nuclear Power Plant-2 (two 1,200-mW units), the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant-2 (two 1,200-mW units), the Boguchanskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant (nine 333-mW units), La Yesca Hydroelectric Power Plant in Mexico (two 375-mW units), the Jyvaskyla Thermal Electric Power Plant in Finland (one 200-mW unit), the San Joan Hydroelectric Power Plant in Brazil (two units 41 mW each), Los Caracoles Hydroelectric Power Plant in Argentina (two 60.7-mW units), Agios Dimitrios Thermal Electric Power Plant in Greece (two 300-mW units) and others.
At the end of 2009, the company's financial reports indicated an overall improvement in profitability and financial stability. Increased profits enabled the company to almost treble investment in production development and R/D compared with 2007.
The company's five-year investment programme envisages a series of measures to stimulate innovative activities to create new products with technical parameters that are on a par with or superior to world analogues; retrofitting of design units and research laboratories, etc.
Power Machines is working to develop twenty new competitive types of products. They include the development of a slow steam turbine and turbo-generator for nuclear power plants with a capacity of 1,200 mW, a 660-mW turbine designed for ultra-critical steam parameters, the development of hydro-turbines for giant hydroelectric power plants in Siberia and other regions of the world, the development of equipment for hydro-accumulating hydroelectric power plants and the creation of effective hydroturbines with adjustable blade pitch that are ecologically safe for rivers.
The strategic project of the Power Machines Company is the building of a new power machine complex in the village of Metallostroy outside St Petersburg. The new production facility uses state-of-the-art technologies and will expand the company's capacity to produce new types of equipment for the power industry, ensure high quality of products, expand the technological range and boost labour productivity.
At the first stage of the project, the first startup complex for the production of slow and fast turbines and turbo-generators for nuclear power plants will be built. The first complex is scheduled to be launched in the third quarter of 2012 and will cost about 6 billion roubles.
The production programme of the first complex includes the production of two fast and two slow-steam turbines with a capacity of up to 1600 mW each and four turbo-generators of the same size. This will increase the company's production capacity and make it possible to produce new types of equipment for the power industry. As early as December 2013 Power Machines may be able to offer potential customers high-quality modern equipment, including powerful turbines for new Project Nuclear Power Plant-2006 reactors that will be available in slow and fast options.
Also, Power Machines is considering construction of a new plant for the production of high-voltage electrical engineering equipment mainly for FSK-UES and MRSK Holding.
One of the company's most important orders is the production and delivery of equipment for the restoration of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant.
To repair the turbines that sustained the least damage done by the accident, Power Machines has built and delivered all the necessary spare parts for the restoration of units 4,5 and 6. As of today, after the repairs carried out by the company's specialists, units 6 and 5 have been put in operation (in February and March respectively).
Power Machines is completing the manufacture of spare parts for the turbines of unit 3 and is in the process of building a new complete 640 mW generator to replace the damaged generator of unit 3. The new generator is to be finished by July 2010.
Simultaneously, work is underway to build new basic energy equipment to restore all 10 units at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant. Under a contract signed between RusHydro and Power Machines in November 2009, the company will build ten 640 mW turbines and nine 640 mW hydro-generators. Power Machines will also assist in the assembly, start-up and fine-tuning work.
An additional agreement is in the pipeline for supply of an automatic management system for the hydroelectric plant, and agreements for the assembly by Power Machines of 10 new hydro-turbines to ensure the full life cycle of the equipment beginning from the drawing boards and ending with commercial launching.
Under the contract, Power Machines has carried out acceptance tests of the new model of hydro-turbine for the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant. The results confirmed that the equipment matches the specifications and has a very high safety standard. Power Machines has designed new hydro-turbines and hydro-generators which have been approved by experts at a meeting of the scientific and technical council of RusHydro in May 2010.
Power Machines is currently preparing to manufacture the first hydro unit (turbine and generator) in January 2011. Thereafter units will be produced every two or two and a half months. During 2011 the company will build six new units, with the remaining ones to be manufactured in 2012.
The lifespan of the new units will be increased to 40 years with the maximum turbine efficiency ratio of 96.6%. The energy and cavitation characteristics will be improved. The turbines will be effectively protected to enable them to be automatically stopped when the operational parameters go off limit.
