Rosseti to invest 5 bln rubles in Kaliningrad region energy system in 2025
KALININGRAD. Feb 10 (Interfax) - PJSC Rosseti plans to invest 5 billion rubles in the Kaliningrad region's energy system in 2025, the Russian power grid holding said in a press release.
Rosseti CEO Andrei Ryumin and Kaliningrad Governor Alexei Besprozvannykh discussed energy security and infrastructure development in the region at a meeting in Moscow. They said the decision by the Baltic States to disconnect from the BRELL electricity loop linking Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had not affected the Kaliningrad region's grid.
The press release said the Rosseti group had completed all preparations for the scenario and facilities were totally prepared to operate in energy island mode.
"Strengthening the Kaliningrad region's energy security is a state priority. Rosseti has played an active role in this. The network was modernized and new capacity commissioned, which is also key for the region's stable economic growth and social sphere. We continue to work on infrastructure to power new high-tech industrial plants, residential complexes and tourist clusters. We estimate investment in 2025 at 5 billion rubles," Ryumin is quoted as saying in the statement.
The company's immediate plans include the completion of several major projects, including the expansion of the 110 kV Kosmodemyanskaya substation in Kaliningrad. Its capacity will increase by more than 20% to 50 MVA, which will improve power supply to the city's central districts and provide energy to new consumers.
Rosseti has begun the 2025 maintenance program, in which about 2,000 km of power transmission lines and the equipment of 19 110-330 kV substations and 531 transformer substations will be updated at a total cost of 637 million rubles.
The Kaliningrad region became an energy island on February 8 after the Baltic countries disconnected from the BRELL electricity loop linking Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The region carried out a lot of work in relation to this situation in the past few years. Four state-of-the-art power plants were built in the region in addition to the main one, the Kaliningradskaya No.2 Combined Heat and Power Plant.
The region's energy system currently includes power plants with installed capacity of 1,919.3 MW. These are the gas-fired Mayakovskaya, Talakhovskaya and Pregolskaya CHP plants and coal-fired Primorskaya CHP plant. The Kaliningradskaya CHP-2 with two 490 MW units has also been operating in the region for a long time.
The region also has nine power transmission lines with a voltage of 330 kV and length of 443.3 km, 96 transmission lines with voltage of 60-110 kV and length of 2,605.5 km, and 78 transformer substations with total capacity of 4,361.6 MVA. The networks are more than 19,000 km in total length.
