In accordance with the project for the Bureya Energy Complex in the Amur Region, the Nizhnyaya-Bureya Hydroelectric Power Station is to be built as a counter-regulator of the Bureya power station which has reached full capacity.
The station is to be built on the Bureya River in the Amur Region near the village of Novobureysky, 90 km downstream from the Bureya Hydroelectric Power Station. The estimated cost of construction is 31.32 billion roubles.
Under the project, four turbines with a total capacity of 320 megawatts will be installed at the Nizhnyaya-Bureya Hydroelectric Power Station; the station will generate an annual 1.65 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.
Under the construction plan, two units are to be launched in 2014 and two in 2015. Construction will be completed and design capacity reached in 2016.
The implementation of the project of the Nizhnyaya Bureya Hydroelectric Power Station will bring additional social and economic benefits to the Far East and to Russia as a whole, including:
- providing consumers in the Far Eastern Federal District with economically effective power in the long term, including by lifting restrictions on the release of power by the Bureya Hydroelectric Power Station and the replacement of more expensive thermal generation;
- the creation of an infrastructure for investment projects on the territory of the Amur Region;
- the creation of jobs for workers laid off from the Bureya Hydroelectric Power Station (about 2,000) and reducing the outflow of the population from the Far East;