Russia facing task to considerably increase volumes of generation facility construction for energy-intensive industries - Shoigu
MOSCOW. June 29 (Interfax) - It is necessary to considerably increase the volumes of construction of renewable and affordable generation facilities for high-tech and energy-intensive sectors of the Russian industry, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said.
"Our task is to considerably increase the volumes of construction of renewable and affordable generation facilities for high-tech and energy-intensive industries. It will require active investment in the development of the domestic engineering school and competencies," Shoigu said at a Monday meeting on the implementation of projects to build hydroelectric stations and regional power stations in the Siberian Federal District.
In the first place, it is necessary to focus on the creation of the most promising pilot facilities, Shoigu said.
"Above all else, it's expansion of the capacity of the Beryozovskaya power plant, completion of the construction of the Krapivinskaya hydroelectric plant and the construction of hydropower plants of the Moksky node. In parallel, one could start the preliminary design work on the Evenki hydroelectric station. Each of these facilities has its own features. Today we need to form roadmaps for resolving difficult issues on every facility, specify the stages of project documentation development and determine investors for every facility," he said.
Secondly, to launch the hydropower plant construction cycle "it will be necessary to determine the tracks of improvement of the legislation in this sphere and to determine a specialized economic mechanism that guarantees the return of investments to investors," he said.
"Thirdly, in a situation of a narrow planning horizon it is difficult to expect serious private capital investments in projects to create large hydroelectric stations and storage power stations," Shoigu said.
"These are large facilities, whose construction periods are ten and more years and whose payoff periods are in the decades," he said.
"In in our power to reduce them. It is necessary to create mechanisms of state support to the implementation of such projects, including by providing tax concessions, capital grants, concessional loans and other mechanisms, including those associated with securities issue under future electrical capacity," Shoigu said.
Fourth, "it's necessary to rule out 'gray areas' associated with the creation of water reservoirs and dams for hydroelectric stations," he said.
It is necessary to "adopt legislation outlining requirements for the makeup of events to prepare flooding zones of water reservoirs, the procedures governing their financing, determining the contractors of work and commissioning of the results," Shoigu said.
