OREANDA-NEWS. October 7, 2011. A technical meeting on issues of development and organization of production of kinetic energy storage devices (KESD) has taken place at VPA Tochmash (Vladimir, a part of TVEL, Fuel Company of Rosatom).

During the meeting the participants listened to the reports of representatives of Rosatom State Corporation, TVEL Fuel Company and such potential consumers of the product as Concern Rosenergoatom, OJSC, Interregional Distribution Grid Company of Center, JSC, Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System, JSC. These companies would be able to use the devices to save energy and output it into a grid during peak-loads.

Nowadays, according to experts, the size of the global market of energy storage devices is quite large, more than 1 bln. Dollars. Storage devises are most actively used in USA, Europe and Canada. According to forecasts, the market of energy storage devices will have grown thrice by 2015.

As Dmitry Naberezhnev, the representative of Bain & Company Russia LLC, said at the conference: "The volume of this market in Russia comes to nothing and it is a good opportunity to occupy this niche.”

At the meeting the participants familiarized themselves with a number of technical solutions for development of energy storage devices on the basis of super-conductors, super hand wheels and hand wheels on the basis of gas centrifuges. In addition to this, VPA Tochmash demonstrated its KESD production potential.

“At the first sight, the construction of this device resembles a gas centrifuge. Given the unique experience we have in production of centrifuges, we have all necessary technological and staff potential to master production of the storage devices in the shortest possible terms” - says Andrey Baybakov, head of the technical bureau of the assembling shop of gas centrifuge production.

New production at Tochmash would be one more step towards development of the industrial park organized at the territory of the plant. Being a high-technology production, placed at the Vladimir Plant, it would be able to become a part of Mechanotronics Center.