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Iberdrola Engineering reaches milestone at the Sugres plant

Spain's Iberdrola Engineering reached another milestone at the Sugres combined cycle plant in Russia on Wednesday, when it successfully achieved base load in the plant's gas turbine, generating 271 MWe. This achievement follows the earlier one reached on 23 March, when the combined cycle gas turbine was fired up for the first time.

The work completed on Wednesday is extremely important, both for its implications as regards the degree to which the project has advanced, and because this power plant is one of the first to go into operation in Russia using technology from both General Electric and Skoda. It is also the first plant to be built as a "turnkey" project by a Spanish company in Russia, where workers at the site had to contend with temperatures as low as 25 degrees below zero during the course of last winter.

Iberdrola Engineering and Construction was awarded the turnkey construction contract for this combined cycle plant in September 2007. It has an installed potential of 403 megawatts (MW) in a 1 TG + 1 HRSG + 1TV + District Heating layout. It was the Company's first large contract in Russia, where it opened commercial offices in 2005.

The design of this plant, which has been built on the site of an existing thermal power plant, will allow for the production of electricity (403 MW), or the simultaneous production of electrical energy (377 MW) and centralised heating (200 Gcal/h) by extraction during the steam cycle. Iberdrola Engineering has this year been awarded a contract for the construction of a substation in Russia worth 30 million euros. This 500 kilovolt (Kv) facility will be located at the Votkinskaya hydroelectric plant, owned by the Russian company RusHydro, the second largest hydroelectric company in the world.

The city of Yekaterinburg lies 1,667 kilometres to the east of Moscow, on the banks of the river Iset, surrounded by forestland, mainly Taiga, and small lakes. It is situated on the eastern side of the Urals, regarded as the natural frontier between Europe and Asia, and is Russia's most important city on that side of the mountain range.



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