DUSHANBE, December 14, 2009, Asia-Plus — Negotiations on construction of the Roghun hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in Tajikistan have been conducted at open joint-stock company, Giproproekt (State Designing Institute), which is operated by the Engineering Center of Russia’s UES, press released by the Engineering Center on December 14 said.
Selection of the main waterpower equipment was the focus of the meeting, which was attended by Tajik Minister of Economic Development and Trade Farrukh Hamraliyev.
The meeting participants included specialists from Giproproekt, representatives from Ukrainian plant Elektrotyazhmash and St. Petersburg SGEM as well as a number of Tajik officials, namely I, Nosirov, the head of the construction and architecture department within President’s Executive Office, D. Murodov, the head of the legal department within President’s Executive Office, N. Shulashov, the director general of the Roghun HPP, A. Rahimov, the technical director of the Roghun HPP, G. Boyev, the sales manager of the Roghun HPP, and R. Qurbonov, the director general of Tajik SGEM, the press services said.
The meeting participants, in particular, discussed selection of generators for the Roghun HPP. Construction of the first line of the stations includes installation of two units. There is equipment that has been stored in warehouses at the site for construction of the Roghun HPP since the 1990s. However, there is probability that the equipment has become obsolete.
The meeting participants decided to set up a commission until the end of this year to assess the available equipment. The commission will comprise representatives from producer plants and research institutes and designing organizations of Tajikistan. An instrumental survey will be conducted in January 2010.
Established in 2001 following merger of five Russia’s oldest scientific and design organizations, OJSC Engineering Center UES is one of leaders in the field of power engineering in the Russian Federation. For the years of their activity, which started at the beginning of the past century, the institutions of the Engineering Center UES have made significant contribution to the electrification of the former Soviet Union and, later, Russia. Some 150 hydropower plants with the overall capacity of 50 millions of kW and the annual output of 200 billions kWh of electricity were built under the projects of the institutes of Hydroproject (Moscow) and Lenhydroproject (St. Petersburg).
