New Energy World™
New Energy World™ embraces the whole energy industry as it connects and converges to address the decarbonisation challenge. It covers progress being made across the industry, from the dynamics under way to reduce emissions in oil and gas, through improvements to the efficiency of energy conversion and use, to cutting-edge initiatives in renewable and low-carbon technologies.
The Trunovskaya wind farm is the latest to be connected to Russia’s unified electricity grid. Located in Stavropol Krai, it will have an installed capacity of 95 MW and consist of 38 wind turbines once completed.
Operated by NovaWind, a division of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, Trunovskaya is the company’s ninth wind farm in southern Russia and seventh in Stavropol Krai. Commissioning of the first 60 MW stage of the wind farm has brought the total volume of Rosatom’s commissioned wind power capacity to 1 GW, ‘equivalent to the reactor power of a nuclear power plant’, according to Grigory Nazarov, Director, NovaWind.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Vladimirov, Governor of Stavropol Krai, claims that last year alone, the use of wind power in Stavropol Krai prevented the emission of 1mn tonnes of CO2 that could have been released into the atmosphere if conventional power technologies had been used.
Earlier this year, in June, the Kuzminskaya wind farm began supplying electricity to the Russian grid. Also located in Stavropol Krai, the wind farm has an installed capacity of 160 MW, comprising 64 wind turbines with a capacity of 2.5 MW each.
Work is also underway to begin construction of the 300 MW Novolakskaya wind farm, to be located in the Republic of Dagestan, in 2024. It is planned to increase Rosatom’s total wind power capacity, including that already commissioned, to 1.7 GW by 2027.
