Krasnodar GRES Project Volume I11 Environmental Assessment

e I. 1 Introduction
1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The North Caucasus region of Russia has a significant electric power capacity
deficit and within this region the Krasnodar power system has the biggest deficit.
Existing generating capacity in the Krasnodar Krai is approximately 75% of the
projected demand in the year 2000, and many power stations are old and
operating beyond their design life. To address this electric power deficit, a joint
stock company has been formed with the objective of constructing a new gas
turbine combined cycle power plant near Mostovskoy. The identified shareholders
in the new joint stock company (referred to as "Kuban GRES") are RAO EES
Rossii, A0 Kubanenergo, RAO Gazprom, A0 Energo Machine Building Corporation,
Unified Electric Energy Complex Corporation, and the administrations of the
Krasnodar Krai and Mostovskoy District. The proposed power plant facility is
called Krasnodar GRES.
The Mostovskoy site was originally selected, in the mid-198Ors, as a site suitable
for construction of a nuclear plant. The plans for a nuclear plant were
subsequently canceled. Site investigations were later carried out for a fossil
power plant and a preliminary feasibility report was prepared in 1991 by
Rostovteploelectroproject (RoTEP), the Design Institute in Rostov. This report
recommended that the site be developed for a 1,350 MW combined cycle plant.
The feasibility report prepared by RoTEP provides the basis for the current project.
This Environmental Assessment report was generated from data and information
supplied by Krasnodar State Agricultural University (KSAU) and Russian Oil
Initiatives Limited (ROIL) under the direction of Burns and Roe.
1.2 Project Description
In order to address the electric power deficit in the North Caucasus region, a
natural gas fired combined cycle power plant is proposed to be built near the
village of Mostovskoy in the Krasnodar Krai of Russia.
The Krasnodar GRES plant is a 900 MW combined cycle plant with future planned
expansion to 1,350 MW. It is composed of two modular blocks of 450 MW each,
with each block containing two combustion turbines of 150 MW capacity, two
heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs), and one 150 MW steam generator.
Using modern combustion technology, power plant efficiency is estimated at
50.4% with a plant availability factor of approximately 90%. The plant will use a
dry cooling tower system to eliminate the need to withdraw large quantities of
(I) water from the Laba River and will be fueled with natural gas. The gas will be
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