OREANDA-NEWS. January 11, 2009. Two transformer substations were put into operation in Turkmenabat and the administrative centre of Birata Etrap in Lebap Velayat. These substations would ensure uninterrupted power supply to the apartment houses and newly constructed facilities in the region as well allow enhancing the country’s energy potential.

Technology modernization and development of power industry are the priority trends in the national reform strategy. To fulfill the designated tasks the project on complex reconstruction of Parakhat central substations in the first industrial zone was launched in Turkmenabat. The project stipulated that obsolete equipment would be replaced with state-of-the-art mechanisms and units. The transformer with the capacity of 125 MWt had been recently put into operation there. At present the specialists of the Turkmenelektrogurnama Department of the Turkmenenergogurlyshik State Concern are engaged in assembling the second transformer. After putting it into operation the capacity of the power substation supplying power to the large industrial region will be doubled.

The transformer in Pelvert settlement in Khalach Etrap was reconstructed. The equipment installed there allows considerably increasing the capacity of the electricity distribution plants so that a considerable part of electric power could be supplied from the left bank of the Amu Darya River to the right-bank power system. The project on construction of an energy bridge across the river had been drafted. 550km Pelvert-Burdalyk high-voltage transmission line will be built in the near future. 140-km Turkmenabat-Khalach LEP-220 is under construction.

Thus, the year 2008 was marked for the eastern region of the country with successful completion of the large-scale energy projects. The power system including the high-voltage transmission lines: Farab-Samandepe, Yahildepe-Burdalyk, Samandepe-Yashildepe and the transformer stations was put into operation on the right bank of the Amu Darya River. The new energy arteries will feed the industrial facilities including the oil and gas enterprises under construction in Lebap where dozens of the large-scale fuel and energy projects are implemented today.