OREANDA-NEWS. JSC INTER RAO - Electric Power Plantsis currently modernizing and increasing capacity at its Gusinoozyorskaya thermal power plant in Gusinoozyorsk, Republic of Buryatia, in Eastern Siberia. The company is equipping its 210 MW Block 4 with a new process automation system supplied by Metso and its Russian VAR partner Rakurs. The launch is scheduled for 2013. With higher-level automation technology, the plant is able to improve plant control and monitoring. For example, plant startups and production rampups will be faster.

The Gusinoozyorskaya plant provides electricity to Buryatia and nearby regions and heat to the City of Gusinoozyorsk with a population of 24,000. It generates approximately 4.3 million kWh of electricity per year and has a heat output of approximately 320,000 Gcal. The plant's installed power generation capacity amounts to 1,100 MW.

The delivery scope for coal-fired Block 4 includes a process automation system which is manufactured by Russian engineering company Rakurs and based on Metso's Metso DNA CR system. It will form a solid, reliable foundation for all other systems at the plant. Rakurs designs the control and SCADA levels in the process control system and delivers the control cabinets and software. It also supplies commissioning and installation supervision.

“The customer will get high-tech products from Rakurs built on Metso's high-quality equipment. As an engineering partner of Metso, a world-known Finnish manufacturer, we think that its equipment responds well to the needs of large high-tech projects,” says Katerina Sazhina, Head of PR and GR service SPC Rakurs Ltd. “Together with our integrated engineering solutions, Metso's equipment provides our customers with safe and reliable operation”.

SPC “Rakurs” is the leader of the Russian market in industrial automation field for hydro- and heat power stations. Company provides a full engineering cycle on creation of industrial automation systems: designing and implementing of technological processes control systems with the software, manufacturing of the factory-assembled equipment for industrial automation, installation and commissioning of systems of automation, personnel training for service of technological processes control systems, post-sale support of systems of automation. The complete integrated solutions of SPC “Rakurs” in the field of industrial automation is a growth of competitiveness of our Customers.

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