OREANDA-NEWS.  March 20, 2008.Power Machines and JSC TGK-2 signed a contract for supplies of power equipment for Novgorodskaya TPP.

The contract stipulates design, manufacture and supplies of a gas turbine GTE-160 and a turbine generator of 160 MW for a combined cycle power plant under construction. Power Machines’ liabilities comprise erection supervision and technical supervision of start-up works too. The equipment is to be supplied by the end of the year 2008. The total contract price amounts to 1 billion rubles.

The new CCPP of 210 MW capacity will help to more than double the installed capacity of the power plant which will provide increase of reliability of power and heat supply to the Novgorod Region.

The power plant is to be extended within the framework of Investment Program of RAO “UES of Russia” which is aimed to speed up the development of Russian power complex. The scope of Investment Program of TGK-2 up to 2011 amounts to 39,8 billion rubles. The Program is a part of the Holding’s program.