Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a conference call on the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant accident at the National Emergency Management Centre.Part 3
August 17, 2009
В.В.Путин провел селекторное совещание по вопросам ликвидации последствий аварии на Саяно-Шушенской ГЭС в Национальном центре управления в кризисных ситуациях МЧС.
17 августа 2009 года
Vladimir Putin: How many major companies had no electricity?
Igor Sechin: About seven.
Vladimir Putin: What do you mean by "about seven"? Five or six?
Igor Sechin: The Ferroalloy Plant and the Krasnoyarsk, Novokuznetsk, Sayan and Khakass aluminium plants. This makes five.
Vladimir Putin: I see.
Igor Sechin: The grid transmission system operator for Siberia ordered the Krasnoyarsk and Bratsk hydroelectric plants to power up to full capacity. Another 18 plants in the Altai, Krasnoyarsk and Baikal territories, the Irkutsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions, and the Buryat and Khakass republics also were ordered to increase output.
All the electric power restrictions in the united Siberian power grid were lifted by 4 pm today. Normal power is now available for all consumers.
Vladimir Putin: Mr Sechin, these measures require reliability. The current temporary arrangement will not hold for long. Industry, municipal services and other consumers need an unbroken power supply.
It is the middle of August now. The Siberian winter starts early, so this temporary arrangement should be reliable and durable-at any rate, to last until the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant is repaired.
Please forward the specific proposals, and I will formulate more generalised directions later.
Igor Sechin: I will, Mr Putin.
Vladimir Putin: Mr Zubakin, acting Board Chairman of RusHydro, has the floor. How do you intend to organise the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant restoration?
Vasily Zubakin: We are currently clearing the rubble and pumping out the water to enable repair work. Leading experts from Power Machines Company, Electrosila equipment manufacturers, and engineers from the Lengidroproekt R&D Institute will arrive at the dam by air. Most of the RusHydro Co managers are at the dam now. All will work together in assessing the state of the plant. Unit Six was under repair during the accident, and we still hope to find it in working condition. As for the rest, three units are completely destroyed and the rest require serious evaluation.
If we see there is no chance to shut the afterbay spillway gates tightly enough, we will immediately start building a cofferdam that will duplicate the one used during plant construction.
We have obtained the design specifications of 40 years ago. Luckily, there are major construction teams here who are building a new spillway at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam.
We want to expedite the spillway construction and have one of its two races ready by the next spring flood season. There is no chance to restore the plant by spring, so there will be no hydroelectric generators using water. Therefore, apart from the available emergency spillway, we need several others to cope with spring water levels, which will demand a capacity of 6, 8, 10 or even 12 cubic metres a second.
All talks of the Boguchanskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant being redundant must stop. We have contacted Mr Oleg Deripaska, our partner, and plan to expedite its construction and operational start-up to fill in the gap in the Siberian electric power industry.
What can impede restoration? First, the capacity to manufacture power generating equipment. Power Machines Company will barely be able to manufacture more than two of these giant generating units. We will discuss this with directors and analysts tomorrow. Possibly, we could withdraw some of our own orders, for example, the reconstruction of a plant in the Volga-Kama cascade, in order to free up Power Machines' resources for these more urgent needs.
Further, the present crane assembly allows for no more than two machines being assembled or reconstructed at a time. The entire job may take four years or even longer at a rate of two machines manufactured a year, plus installation time.
The new Boguchanskaya plant, with an expedited construction schedule, might achieve its full capacity of 3000 megawatts in three years and could compensate for the Sayano-Shushenskaya.
We have established a strong team of engineers from research and design institutes. They are processing all the data from the automatic process control system recordings, made second by second. The team started working tonight, and I expect initial reports as soon as tomorrow morning or early afternoon tomorrow.
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