OREANDA-NEWS. April 28, 2008. Major overhaul of hydroelectric generator #1 with 110MW installed capacity at Miatly hydropower plant is at its completion stage, reported the press-centre of RusHydro.
 
The following works have been completed: assembling and installation of the runner’s blades, the blades’ seal installation, hydraulic test, examination of the blades turning mechanism. Now the runner is ready to be moved and installed in the crater.
 
As you may remember, in December of the last year during the routine examination of Miatly hydropower station’s runners, specialists of the company registered cracks incompatible with the further exploitation of the generator.
 
Management of Dagestan Branch of JSC “RusHydro” made a decision to do the repair of the runner’s blades at the factory. In two months experts of “Tjazhmash” factory (Cizran city) completed the blades repair. The generator has been overhauled by the specialists of “Energostroy Ltd.” Contractor Company.
 
The cost of this blades major repair in the factory’s facilities totals 31million rubles. It is planed to complete the works by 20 May 2008.