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Irkutsk, Russia Russian hydropower generator Irkutskenergo plans to invest about 1 billion rubles (US32.7 million) in the upgrade of the Ust-Ilimskaya hydropower plant in the Irkutsk Region by 2014, wire services reported.

19-Jul-10

Russian Wind Turbine Production Agreemant Signed

Siemens has signed a partnership agreement for cooperation in the renewable energy sector with the two Russian companies Rostechnologii and RusHydro to produce wind turbine components.

15-Jul-10

Lukoil and ERG Renew to Jointly Pursue Russion Wind Projects

Russia has great wind power potential. Wind energy, if promoted by the state, can be of good help to oilmen, especially in remote areas, with scarce power supplies. Italian renewable energy company ERG Renew and Russia's Lukoil agreed to look at cooperating on wind energy projects in eastern Europe and Russia, the companies said recently.

13-Jul-10

Russia/Kazakhstan Reach Credit Agreement for Ekibastus Hydropower Plant -2

ASTANA, July 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia, Kazakhstan have signed three agreements on cooperation in nuclear power engineering and on the construction of a hydropower plant.

05-Jul-10

Russian Wind Association Suggests €7B Market

The wind energy market in Russia may have a turnover of around €7 billion by 2025 if its potential is exploited to the fullest, experts agreed at a renewable energy forum hosted in St. Petersburg by Bellona. Igor Bryzgunov, who heads Russia's wind energy association, presented the figures during the Bellona Forum for Renewable Energy in St. Petersburg. There, he spoke of a number of wind power projects that are slated to make an appearance in Russia.

19-Apr-10

Russia, Northern Neighbors Develop Common Bioenergy Interests

MURMANSK – Bellona held its first Russian-Norwegian Videoconference to discuss development of bioenergy projects in Russia’s Northwest last week. As cooperation grows between Russia and its northern neighbours in developing renewable energy, regions seem willing as ever to try to tap into the vast energy potential offered by renewables, their bilateral teleconference on March 16th showed.
Anna Kireeva, 22/03-2010 - Translated by Maria Kaminskaya

22-Mar-10

Joint Japan-Russian Meeting on Renewable Energy, Conservation

Japan is strengthening cooperation with Russia in the energy conservation and renewable energy fields. Public and private sector participants from both countries will attend the meeting of a joint committee that will be held on March 2 to discuss the forms of collaboration.

26-Feb-10

Russian Wind Power - Article

Russia has high quality wind resources on the Pacific and Arctic coasts and in vast steppe and mountain areas. But at the end of 2009, total installed wind power capacity in Russia was only 9 MW.
Large-scale wind energy systems are suitable in Siberia and the Far East (east of Sakhalin Island, the south of Kamchatka, the Chukotka Peninsula, Vladivostok), the steppes along the Volga river, the northern Caucasus steppes and mountains and on the Kola Peninsula, where power infrastructure and major industrial consumers are in place. There is an unsurge in the amount of large-scale wind development activity, but there are many hurdles.

16-Feb-10

Equipment Ordered for Large Wood Pelleting Plant in Russia

International technology Group ANDRITZ will supply all process equipment for a complete wood pelleting plant to the Russian pulp and paper producer Vyborgskaja Cellulosa in Vyborg. The order value is approximately 40 MEUR, start-up of the plant is scheduled in the second half of 2010.
With a production capacity of approximately 900,000 t/a (corresponding to about 125 t/h), this wood pelleting plant will be the largest worldwide.

25-Jan-10

Kyrgyz Specialist to Aid Reconstruct Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydropower Station

Specialists of Narynhydrostroi Company (Kyrgyzstan) will take part in reconstruction of Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station on invitation of the Russian side, the company said.

22-Jan-10

Rosnano Investing in Russian Solar Energy

Rosnano is investing 1.29 Billion roubles for the construction of new generation solar power systems on the grounds of the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute in Saint Petersburg.

Yahoo StumbleUpon Google Live Technorati del.icio.us Digg Reddit Mixx Propeller The 5.73 Billion rouble project will see Rosnano joined by co-investors German Module Solar AG and company Solar Stream which was established by technology developers. Furing the completion of the project it is expected that 3.15 billion roubles more investment will come from 3rd party investors.

14-Dec-09

Huge Polysilicon, Solar cell/Module Plant Planned for Western Siberia

A fully integrated 1.2GW solar plant is to be built in the Omsk region in Western Siberia, Russia at an estimated cost of €1.6 billion (approx US$2.4 billion), which will include a 10,000MT monosilane/polysilicon plant as well as c-Si solar cell and module production plants. Russian company Silarus, a 100% subsidiary of Titan, a major chemicals company, will own and operate the new business. Lead project and technology partners for the project are Gebrüder Schmid and Schmid Silicon Technology (SST). EPC Engineering Consulting will also collaborate on the project.

03-Dec-09

Russian Wood Waste Thought to be 175M Tonnes Per Year.

According to Mikhail Kovalchuk, Director of Moscow's Kurchatov Nuclear Research Institute, 175 million tonnes of wood waste remain unprocessed in Russia annually. The amount of energy that can be produced by this volume of waste would be equivalent to the energy of all petrol consumed in Russia every year.

30-Oct-09

International Finance Corp Posts Project Manager, Russia Renewable Energy Program Position

The Project Manager will serve as the overall manager of the Russia Renewable Energy Program

16-Oct-09

Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydro Plant Repair Allocated $717M

MOSCOW, October 3 (RIA Novosti) - Expenses to repair Russia's largest hydropower plant wrecked in August have been approved at 21.6 billion rubles ($717 mln) for 2009-2010, the Russian energy minister Sergei Shmatko said.

03-Oct-09

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