THE MAIN ENERGY SUPPLIER

This week, journalists visited another energy facility-Almaty CHPP-2.
This thermal power plant is one of the most “young” energy stations in Almaty. Its first stage was commissioned in 1980.
Almaty CHPP – 2 is one of the departments that are part of JSC “Almaty power plants” (JSC”Ales”). Today, this station provides 40% of the city’s thermal energy. the volume of electricity production is about 50%. “no,” he said. The heat generated here is 2.5 times cheaper than the thermal energy of CHPP-1 and BTC (Western thermal complex), since the thermal power plant does not run on gas, but on Ekibastuz coal.
In recent years, the station has been expanded, and the equipment of CHPP-2 is being modernized-its wear and tear is 70% -. “no,” he said. One of the innovations introduced at CHPP-2 in recent years is the flue gas purification system produced by the station pipelines. Designed system-5% of emissions into the atmosphere. it was intended to release, and after modernization (installation of emulsifiers), emissions decreased by 3 times-to 1.5%.
So far, 7 boilers are working at CHPP-2, but the 8th boiler will appear in the near future. This is necessary due to the expansion of the city in the western direction. Additional electric and thermal energy will be needed both for domestic consumers and for the objects of the future Universiade, and for industrial enterprises, the construction of which is planned near CHPP-2. About млрд 25 billion was invested in the construction of this facility. tenge will be required.
This year, new collection, boiler and tank farms of thermal power plants (the estimated cost of facilities is 13 billion rubles.tenge) will be built and put into operation. They are designed to increase the capacity of the station, increase the heat transfer from CHPP-2 to CHPP-1 along the new heating main. This will lead to a decrease in the workload of CHPP-1 located near the center of Almaty, and, consequently, to an improvement in the ecology in the city.
The modernization of old equipment and the construction of new stations requires serious investments – both Ales own funds and money from the Republican budget.
As the deputy chairman of the board for production – chief engineer of ales JSC Gaziy Ismukhambetov informed us, over the years of the government’s resolution on the introduction of marginal tariffs (since 2009), ales JSC has invested 51 billion US dollars in the modernization of energy stations.”I don’t know,” he said. Of these, the production of thermal energy is 3.3 billion rubles. tenge.
Of the investment funds of ales JSC, 31% was used to increase production volumes; 33% was used to maintain the current level of energy stations; 3.1% was used to reduce production costs; 17.8% of the funds were used to build ash dumps. The result of the investments was an increase in the capacity of energy sources by 115 MW (megawatts), which will increase the reliability of the Almaty power grid in the winter period.
When asked whether investments will raise electricity and heat tariffs, Gaziy Ismukhambetov replied that the implementation of investment programs requires funds that will be provided with an increase in the marginal tariff. Specialists of JSC” ales ” are preparing a corresponding application for Durham. Since the beginning of the year, tariffs for electricity are likely to rise, which is provided for by the government program developed until 2015.

Tatyana Nosova