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23 January 2006 - Russia's Power Machines has won a tender and signed a contract worth $80m for supply of the main power generating equipment for Sangtudinskaya-1 hydropower plant being built in Tadjikistan.
The order was place by the Ministry of Energy of Tadjikistan and Power Machines beat off competition from Alstom for the supply of turbines and Elsib for the hydrogenerators.
Under the terms of the contract for the project Power Machines are to manufacture and supply hydrogenerators and Francis hydroturbines with the runner of 6 m in diameter and weight of 105 tons for the first three power units of Sangtudinskaya HPP with capacity of 167.5 MW each.
The production of the first equipment sets is planned for 2007 and the first power unit commissioning is planned for mid 2008.
The Sangtudinskaya hydropower plant was conceived and designed in the early 1990's but because of the USSR collapse and lack of financing, construction of the plant was held up. In January 2005 Russia, Tadjikistan and Iran signed an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of Sangtudinskaya-1 HPP and Sangtudinskaya-2 HPP. In addition the Russian party will take part in financing of the final stage of the HPP-1 construction. It will cost $600m to build.
The power plant construction will be one of the largest in the CIS. The project implementation will satisfy both internal Tadjikistan's needs and assure electric power export to Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and areas of Russia experiencing power shortages. The power station will also play an important role in water balance regulation of the region in general.
This is not the first project implemented by Power Machines in Tadjikistan recently. In 2004 the company supplied equipment for Gorno-Badakhshanskaya HPP (9 units with the capacity of 11,9 MW each), as well as for modernization of Khorog HPP and Pamirskaya HPP. In addition Power Machines plan to participate in construction of Sangtudinskaya-2 HPP and Ragunskaya HPP.
The Sangtudinskaya HPP is located on Vakhsh river, at a distance of 200 kilometers to the south from Dushanbe. The power station will be the fifth step of the Vakhshanky cascade, providing energy for the central regions of Tadjikistan. Project power station capacity is 670 MW.
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