30.11 Sakhalin state district power station No 2 to use coal fuel: RAO ES of East

MOSCOW, November 27 – RIA Novosti. The Sakhalin state regional power station No 2, now being built under a RusHydro project to develop the Far Eastern heat-generating network, will use coal fuel, Sergei Tolstoguzov, General Director of RAO ES (Energy Systems) of the East, said.

Previously, the possibility of converting the Sakhalin state regional power station No 2 to gas fuel was discussed.

“Indeed, fuel was  the main issue at first. We find it more profitable and more cost-effective to build a gas station, but, with due consideration for regional energy safety and security issues, it was decided to use coal here. The station will use coal. The station’s capacity is the main issue,” he told a RIA Novosti news conference.

On instructions from the Russian leadership, RusHydro is building four new heat-generating facilities in the Russian Far East, including the first stage of the Sakhalin state regional power station No 2 in the Sakhalin Region, a thermal power station in Sovetskaya Gavan in the Khabarovsk Territory, the second stage of the Blagoveshchensk thermal power station in the Amur Region, and the first stage of the Yakutian state district power station No 2 in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).