Rosatom’s first wind farm has entered the wholesale electric power and capacity market

02 March 2020 The largest wind farm in Russia has begun supplying electric power to the wholesale electricity and capacity market. The Adygea Wind Farm is the first completed project of NovaWind JSC (the Rosatom division responsible for wind energy projects). It has a total capacity of 150 MW and consists of 60 wind turbines.

As part of the current localization programme, the company was able to achieve batch production of wind turbine components and assemblies in Russia. The degree of localized sourcing of the facility’s equipment, as confirmed by Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, is at 65%. Through its localization programme, NovaWind plans to bring this figure up to 80-85% in the future.

In this project, Rosatom acts as a system integrator that effectively accomplishes a full range of tasks, including designing wind farms, making its own production of wind turbine components, managing the supply chain and delivery of components to sites, as well as subsequently overseeing service and operation.

Rosatom is currently implementing a programme for wind farm construction at four more sites in the Stavropol Kray and the Rostov Region. The company’s next largest wind farm, with an installed capacity of 210 MW, will appear in the Kochubeyevsky district of the Stavropol Kray.

Notes to the editor:

About NovaWind JSC:

NovaWind JSC is a Rosatom division responsible for the implementation of wind energy projects. By 2023, enterprises operating under the management of NovaWind JSC, plan to build and install wind power plants with a total capacity of 1 GW. Wind power stations will appear in the Republic of Adygea, the Stavropol Territory, and the Rostov Region. NovaWind JSC is an equal shareholder in a joint venture with a Dutch partner Lagerwey (Netherlands). The joint venture, Red Wind B.V. , was created in November 2017. Red Wind is responsible for marketing, sales, and the supply of turnkey wind turbines.

About Rosatom

ROSATOM is the only company in the world to offer integrated clean energy solutions across the nuclear supply chain and beyond, including design, construction and operation of nuclear power stations, uranium mining, conversion and enrichment, supply of nuclear fuel, decommissioning, spent fuel storage and transportation and safe nuclear waste disposal. With 70 years’ continuous experience, the company is the world leader in high-performance solutions for all kinds of nuclear power plants. It is also working in the segments of wind generation, nuclear medicine, energy storage and other.

Headquartered in Moscow, the company brings together over 300 enterprises and organizations and over 250,000 employees. Globally, the company has the second biggest uranium reserves, has more than a third of the world’s enrichment market, and is the world's biggest builder of the latest generation nuclear power stations and US$133 billion 10-years export order book.

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