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Solar generation

Projects in the field of solar energy are also being implemented by RusHydro in the Far East in order to provide energy supply to remote settlements isolated from the united power grid. Sakhaenergo (part of the RusHydro group) successfully operates 23 SPP with a total capacity of 2.935 MW. In 2015, under an agreement with the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the largest transpolar solar power plant with capacity of 1 MW was built in the Batagay settlement of the Verkhoyansky District of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). SPP in the Batagay settlement is also listed in the Guinness book of records as the northernmost solar power plant in the world. The annual diesel fuel savings of all commissioned solar power plants is more than 460 tons.

In 2019, solar panels with a capacity of 1,275 kW were commissioned in the Amur region on the territory of the Nizhne-Bureyskaya HPP. This is the first project in Russia to create a combined hydro-solar generation. Generation of solar panels is used to meet the own needs of the Nizhne-Bureyskaya HPP, which increases the net generation by the plant. Also, the first floating solar power plant in Russia was commissioned at the Nizhne-Bureyskaya HPP in 2020.

Further development of RusHydro's solar energy industry is envisaged in Yakutia and the Kamchatka territory under the mechanism of energy service contracts that provide for the construction of integrated energy complexes at the expense of investors, including solar panels, high-efficiency diesel power plants and energy storage systems. The first such contracts were concluded in 2020.

OPERATING SOLAR POWER PLANTS

SPP name

Region

Installed capacity, kW

Year of commissioning

Planned annual diesel fuel savings, tons

1.

SPP in the Yuchyugey settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

20

2012

5.9

2.

SPP in the Batamay settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

60

2012

17.4

3.

SPP in the Dulgalakh settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

20

2013

9.1

4.

SPP in the Kudu-Kuel settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

20

2013

6.5

5.

SPP in the Dzhargalakh settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

15

2014

5.2

6.

SPP in the Toyon-Ary settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

20

2014

7.6

7.

SPP in the Eyik settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

40

2014

11.9

8.

SPP in the Kuberganya settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

20

2014

6.5

9.

SPP in the Batagay settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

1,000

2015

300

10.

SPP in the Junkyur settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

40

2015

15.65

11.

SPP in the Betenkes settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

40

2015

13.26

12.

SPP in the Stolby settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

10

2015

3.6

13.

SPP in the Uluu settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

20

2015

7.31

14.

SPP in the Delgey settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

80

2016

24.22

15.

SPP in the Innyakh settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

20

2016

8.22

16.

SPP in the Verkhnyaya Amga settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

36

2016

18.80

17.

SPP in the Sebyan-Kyuel settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

50

2017

12.08

18.

SPP in the Orto-Balagan settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

50

2017

11.7

19.

Yuryan SPP

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

3

2017

-

20.

SPP in the Kystatyam settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

40

2018

9.48

21.

SPP in the Tokko settlement

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

2

2018

-

22.

Solar panels at Nizhne-Bureyskaya HPP

Amur Region

1,275

2019

-

23

Floating solar power plant at Nizhne-Bureyskaya HPP

Amur Region

54

2020

-



SOLAR POWER PLANTS COMMISSIONED AS PART OF AUTOMATED HYBRID POWER COMPLEXES (AHPC) BUILT UNDER THE MECHANISM OF ENERGY SERVICE CONTRACTS

SPP name

Region

Installed capacity, kW

Year of commissioning

Ulakhan-Kuel

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

400

2021

Verkhoyansk

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

1,030

2022

Honuu

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

1,503

2022

Sasyr

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

233

2022

Kulun-Elbut 

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

103

2022

Chumpu-Kytyl

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

103

2022