Reacting to an incoming request, EF-TEK submitted an offer to carry out a public technology and price audit of the Moesk PJSC-operated Narofominsk 110/35/10 kV Substation No. 308 upgrade investment project (within the scope of this project, replacement of two transformers was planned) - and won.
EF-TEK Director General, Mr. Andreas Berndt, was interviewed by the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce, and this brief interview appeared in their regular morning newsletter on January the 9th 2020. Here is the link.
The Quadra Company has successfully tested the newly built 223-megawatt combined-cycle gas turbine unit, installed at the Cogeneration Plant No. 1 in the city of Voronezh, Russia. As the final test, intended to prove that the new CCGT unit is ready for commercial use, it was connected to the grid. The CCGT unit operated continuously 72 hours long at its maximum capacity, and 8 hours long at its minimum capacity. Its adjustment range-related parameters were also verified.
Russian authorities in charge of the Russian wholesale electricity market regulation had admitted the newly built unit to trading on this market prior to that.
The investment project, covering the construction of the new 223 MW CCGT unit, is being implemented by the Quadra Co. at the CHP Plant No. 1 in Voronezh under a Power delivery contract. The price of this project exceeds 15 billion Russian rubles. Upon commissioning, the new 223 MW CCGT unit will contribute to improving the overall reliability and efficiency of the power generation taking place at the CHP Plant No. 1.
Our company EF-TEK has been awarded a contract to act as the General Contractor’s Engineer on the cogeneration facility erection project in the town of Bilibino.
This cogeneration facility will be predominantly providing heating to consumers in Bilibino, since the local Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant is currently being decommissioned. The new facility will comprise ten gensets 2.5 MW each. The heat power will be generated by six water boilers, 11 MW each.
Our company EF-TEK acted as a co-organizer and the moderator of the meetings and discussions aimed at sharing European heat-and-power supply systems modernization and development know-how (with Berlin and Dresden serving as examples) with Russian specialists. The event took place from September the 30th to October the 2d 2019. The event participants included representatives of the Russian association “Council of Power Producers”, of Russia’s largest heat generating companies such as “Inter RAO”, “Quadra”, “Siberian Generating Company” and “TatEnergo”; as well as of the leading German engineering companies “VPC GmbH” and “Fichtner GmbH & Co KG”. During the meetings specialists of the two German companies shared information about the most state-of-the-art heat supply-related solutions with their Russian colleagues. The event participants discussed such topics, as various development strategies for the heat supply and the utilities sectors; long-term planning methods utilized in the most advanced countries of the EU; the transition of Eastern and Northern European countries from traditional district heating to more efficient heating systems; various energy efficiency-, digitalization- and governmental support-related issues; as well as a variety of other topics relevant to the Russian heat and power sector.
As part of the event the participants visited running heat supply facilities in Germany: the Berlin district heating networks control center and a combined-cycle plant in Dresden.
They also discussed possible future cooperation between the Russian association “Council of Power Producers” and the public utilities companies of Berlin and Dresden.
September the 8th 2019 the first ignition of the gas turbine unit no. 4 was successfully carried out at this power plant: upon first launch, the unit was tested at idling. Specialists of our company EF-TEK have been supervising the construction of the 223 MW CCP installation at the CHP Plant No. 1 in Voronezh since December 2017.
Specialists of our company EF-TEK started the Basic Engineering for a project aimed at getting 30 MW of additional power generated for our Customer. As part of this job, we will be offering several possible technical solutions for how the power generation equipment already in possession of our valued Customer, which is one of the leading international metallurgical companies, can be upgraded and/or expanded in order to increase its power output as required.
A training seminar, dedicated to proper usage of aggregated price standards, was carried out by our company from July the 8th to July the 12th 2019 for our Customer “LenEnergo”. The service contract covering this seminar was entitled “Defining the scope and the quantitative parameters of standard technical solutions as part of aggregated price standards-based investment project total cost calculations.” The seminar took place at the LenEnergo training center in the settlement of Tervolovo, located in the Leningrad region of Russia.
Together with the company called “NTZ FSK EES”, which is the competence center of the Russian national power grid managing company “FSK EES”, our company EF-TEK developed the aggregated price standards to be used for capital expenditures evaluation of Russian national power grid-related investment projects.
