Lukoil Commissions “Solar” Filling Station
OREANDA-NEWS. September 23, 2009. Vagit Alekperov, OAO LUKOIL President, and Igor Levitin, Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, participated in an official ceremony of commissioning a filling station equipped with an autonomous energy supply system based on a photovoltaic power plant (PPP) in Krasnaya Polyana (Krasnodar region) today.
The PPP capacity is 9.6 kW.
The energy generated by PPP will be mainly used for external and internal illumination of the filling station and will ensure uninterrupted operation of the facility in case of an emergency shutdown of the external electrical power units.
LUKOIL's filling station located in Krasnaya Polyana is the first Russian filling station equipped with the PPP designed in
As compared with the other alternative electrical power units, the PPP has the following advantages:
- no environmental pollution in the course of operation;
- durability (20 years and longer) without considerable wear;
- easy to assemble and maintain.
The design capacity of the filling station is 250 fillings per day. The fuel is stored in three subsurface double-walled reservoirs, i.e. two reservoirs with the capacity of
‘As for renewable energy project implementation outlooks, they go in line with LUKOIL's general development strategy which mainly focuses on ensuring environmental security, mitigation of environmental impact and application of state-of-the-art energy-saving technologies’, Mr. Alekperov commented.
The first LUKOIL filling station equipped with an autonomous energy supply system based on photovoltaic power plant (PPP) has also been commissioned in
On the same day, Mr. Alekperov and Mr. Levitin also signed a cooperation agreement between the Company and the Ministry to establish strategic partnership aimed at the implementation of state-and-private partnership projects and improvement of cooperation mechanisms between the public and private sectors in transportation.
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