OREANDA-NEWS. October 27, 2009. The Governor of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Edward Rossel and Director of Enel International Division, Carlo Tamburi visited Sredneuralskaya GRES of OJSC Enel OGK-5 to monitor the progress of the construction works at the combined cycle power unit CCGT-410MW.

Anatoly Kopsov, General Director of Enel OGK-5 reported on the progress of the construction and informed that the commissioning of the first combined cycle power unit in Sredneuralskaya GRES is scheduled by the end of 2010 with operations to start in 2011. 

As of now the company has completed the building up of the steel structures, wall panels and roof for the control unit room and power equipment, for the buildings of the gas and steam turbines as well as for the main building of CCGT-410MW. Currently 56% of the scheduled works have already been completed and there are 270 workers on the construction site. The peak for the construction period is expected between February and April of 2010 and 500 workers are expected to be employed in that phase. Local suppliers provide 60% of the staff on the site and 26 contractors are from the Ekaterinburg region.

The construction of the steel structures of the main building pumps and the concreting of the gas turbine foundation are at the final stage.

The main equipment is being finalized: 65m of the chimney stack and 320 tons of steel structures for HRSG have been built up. 

Equipment supply meets the schedule deadlines: the steam turbine and generator component parts (produced by Skoda Power, Czech Republic) will be delivered at the end of October, the component parts of the gas turbine with the generator (produced by General Electric, USA) will be delivered in November 2009.

CCGT-410MW with an efficiency rate of 57% will enable to improve technical, economic and environmental performance of the power plant, its efficiency and competitiveness on the wholesale energy market.

The project cost totals 350 million euros.

 Enel runs 5000MW of installed capacity in Sverdlovsk Oblast: 3800MW of the coal fired Reftinskaya GRES and 1200MW of the gas-fired Sredneuralskaya GRES.