Power engineers of Shardarinsk hydropower plant (HPP) together with partners from Andritz Hydro Gmbh completed the installation of the new hydraulic unit No. 4. This is the final stage of the project on fundamental retrofit of the facility, as a result of which the plant's capacity will increase by 26%.
Today, after the pilot launch, test runs of the new hydraulic unit No. 4 are underway. Specialists monitor the operation of the turbine and analyze the results obtained.
According to experts, the new equipment will allow generating an additional 57 mln. kWh / year of electricity, which will increase the service life of the hydropower plant up to 35-40 years, as well as enhance the reliability of operation of the HPP and reduce the accident rate.
Old hydro turbines manufactured by Kharkiv plant (Ukraine), which served more than half a century, were replaced with new ones produced by the Austrian-German company ANDRITZ Hydro Gmbh. New hydraulic units will contribute to an increase in electricity generation by Shardarinsk HPP from 480 to 537 mln. kWh per annum.
Technological renovation of the facility is of great importance for providing electricity to experiencing power shortages Turkestan region and increasing the efficiency of water use in the region. The total cost of the project is 38 bln. tenge. 32% of funding is secured using own funds of “Samruk-Energy” JSC, 68% - borrowed funds. The contractor of the project - Austrian-German Company Andritz Hydro Gmbh.
Owing to the commissioning of the first two hydraulic units with a capacity of 31,5 MW each in the first half of 2019, Shardarinsk HPP hit the annual electricity generation plan ahead of schedule - with planned 378 000 thous.kWh, electricity generation was 464 841 thous. kWh.
Shardarinsk HPP was commissioned in 1967 with an installed capacity of 100 MW and 4 hydraulic units. With a standard service life of 25 years, the plant's technological equipment has been in operation for more than half a century, and from the economics and operation reliability perspective, further operation of the equipment was unfeasible.
The first 31,5 MW hydraulic unit was launched in February 2019, then the second hydraulic unit was launched in April, and the third one was commissioned in December 2019. After the installation of the fourth hydraulic turbine and completion of its trial runs, Shardarinsk HPP will be preparing to reach its design capacity for electricity generation - 126 MW.
“Samruk-Energy” JSC is the largest power holding company in Kazakhstan, 100% owned by “Samruk-Kazyna” SWF JSC. It was established in 2007. Core business: electricity and heat production; transmission, distribution and sale of electricity, power coal mining. The holding company comprises energy and coal enterprises, including “Ekibastuz SDPP-1” LLP, “Ekibastuz SDPP-2 Plant” JSC, “Bogatyr Komir” LLP, “Almaty Power Plants” JSC, “Moynak Hydropower Plant named after U.D. Kantayev” JSC, “Shardarinsk HPP” JSC, etc.
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