mondi slpk has started the modernization of the thermal power plant, which provides heat to the entire ezhva. Energy cardiology

JSC "Mondi Syktyvkarsky LPK" in the next two years will invest more than 8 billion rubles in the first stage of a large-scale project for the modernization of a combined heat and power plant (CHP). The official launch of the strategic project took place today, May 25.

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The solemn ceremony was attended by representatives of the regional government, city authorities and the management of Mondi SYK. In honor of this event, a memorial sign was installed at the checkpoint of the energy production.

According to Klaus Peller, General Director of the enterprise, the goal of the project is to ensure stable and safe generation of heat and electricity not only for the plant, but also for the Komi Republic. The operation of the most sophisticated equipment and the annual production of more than one million tons of high-quality paper, cardboard and market pulp - products that are in great demand in Russia and abroad - depend on the uninterrupted operation of the combined heat and power plant.

For us, this is a very important event, since the CHPP is the heart of the plant, - the head of the company emphasized. - CHPP today provides about 20% of the region's electricity needs, and is also the only source of heat and hot water for Ezhva. June will mark 51 years since the launch of the existing combined heat and power plant, it deserves a full-fledged modernization program.

According to Klaus Peller, the first step towards modernization was taken as part of the STEP project, implemented in 2010. As part of the new project, more than 8 billion rubles of investments will be invested at its first stage alone.

Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Construction, Housing and Public Utilities and Roads of Komi Konstantin Lazarev emphasized that the Mondi SYK project is the largest energy project in the North-West.

Klaus Peller remarked that the CHP plant had been operating trouble-free and reliably for 50 years. Thanks to those who participated in its construction. I would like the CHPP to be just as reliable after the implementation of the new project,” the minister noted.

The head of the Syktyvkar administration, Valery Kozlov, said that it was important for the city that the project be implemented on time, and that the Ezhvinsky district be provided with heat and hot water, as in all previous years.

Alexander Popov, head of Rosprirodnadzor for Komi, stressed the importance of modernizing one of the company's main facilities.

I hope that it is not a coincidence that Mondi SYK deliberately took this step in the Year of Ecology. I am very glad that all the modernization in recent years at the enterprise has a pronounced environmental connotation. I am sure that all the goals set at the plant will be realized, - said Alexander Popov.

During the implementation of the project, a new bark boiler with a steam capacity of more than 270 tons per hour, a steam turbine with a capacity of 84 MW and a switchgear will be built, which will make it possible to both connect new domestic consumers to the power system and give the generated electricity to the Komienergo system.

The plant has already received a positive conclusion from the state examination and a permit for construction and installation work from supervisory authorities, and has concluded agreements with major suppliers. Commissioning of the new equipment is scheduled for 2019.

According to Kommersant, a number of industrial consumers have not complied with the requirement of the law to bring thermal power plants with a total capacity of up to 5 GW to the wholesale energy market. The departure of generation from retail to wholesale leads to a sharp increase in costs: for example, when a thermal power plant owned by the largest paper producer in Russia, Mondi Syktyvkar LPK (Mondi SYK), enters the wholesale market, energy for the plant will become twice as expensive, and additional costs will amount to 2.5 billion rubles The enterprise could decommission part of the CHPP capacity to remain in retail, but this would jeopardize the power supply of the Republic of Komi (17% of the energy balance) and the heat supply of Syktyvkar.

The Russian Association of Pulp and Paper Enterprises (RAO Bumprom) asks to retain the right to work in the retail energy market for the CHPP of JSC Mondi SLPK (541 MW) in the Komi Republic, Yury Lakhtikov, vice president of Bumprom, told Kommersant. According to the Federal Law "On the Electric Power Industry", the output of the thermal power plant should be sold on the wholesale market from the beginning of the year, but Mondi Syktyvkar is still negotiating with government agencies, including the Ministry of Energy. Only stations up to 25 MW or those that generate more than 75% for the needs of the owner can remain at retail. The thermal power plant generates 2.8 billion kWh per year, the plant takes 57% of them, the rest is sold on the retail market in the southern energy center of Komi, Mondi SLPK told Kommersant. The problem was discussed in April even at a meeting between Austrian President Heinz Fischer and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, as well as in the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.

Mondi SLPK is part of the Mondi group headquartered in Austria. Produces paper, cardboard and market pulp, owns the Snegurochka brand. Annual production - 1.1 million tons. The CHPP was built over 45 years ago to supply power to the timber industry complex.

Since 2010, the industry, which owns generation of more than 25 MW, was obliged to sell energy only on the wholesale market, but there are exceptions, the Market Council explains. The stations that operated in retail until 2011 received a delay in going wholesale, and as a result they were obliged to go wholesale only from 2016. Apparently, the Mondi CHPP was subject to a deferment, but now there is no reason to remain in retail, believes Vladimir Lipavsky, managing partner of OST Legal.

It is possible not to go wholesale if the main fuel of TPPs is by-products of production (associated, blast furnace, coke oven gases, etc.), and more than 75% of the energy is used for own needs. The government also has the right to give individual exceptions.

In total, according to the Market Council, about 60 objects with a total capacity of 5 GW remain on the retail market, which are required to go wholesale or receive confirmation from the regulator about the possibility of remaining in retail, but have not yet applied for it. In this state, the CHPPs of the Achinsk Alumina Refinery "Rusal" (320 MW), the Moscow GTPPs "Tereshkovo" (170 MW) and the TPPs "Lykovo" (130 MW), the stations of the Magnitogorsk Energy Company (630 MW, provided by CHPP "LUKOIL-Permnefteorgsintez" (200 MW). For 2016, 25 companies with a generation capacity of 2.9 GW received the right not to work on wholesale. Among them are paper companies - the Ilim group (353 MW) and the Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill (163 MW). The metallurgists interviewed by Kommersant do not plan to go wholesale. Severstal says that its own generation provided 72% of the consumption in 2015 of the Cherepovets plant. NLMK takes 100% of the generated electricity for its own needs, the company said.

There are no formal grounds for absenteeism from the Mondi CHPP, Bumprom admits. But if Mondi SLPK sells CHP energy to the wholesale market and then buys it back, then additional costs will amount to at least 2.5 billion rubles. per year, says Yuri Lakhtikov. The cost of energy (retail price) - 1479 rubles. for 1 MWh, at the wholesale it will have to be taken at 3028 rubles. for 1 MWh. The enterprise will be forced to decommission part of the CHP capacity so that its own consumption exceeds 75%, and reduce the supply to external consumers, they say in Bumprom, but the regulators are against it: the station provides 17% of the region's electricity needs and is the only source of heat in Ezhvinsky district of Syktyvkar (more than 60 thousand inhabitants).

As one of the solutions, "Bumprom" sees the classification of black liquor (waste from pulping) as a by-product of production. 50% of the energy of the Mondi CHP is generated from bark and wood waste, 50% from black liquor. RAO "Bumprom" is also seeking benefits for the use of black liquor: according to the new GOST, this is a renewable energy source. Another way out is to reduce the threshold of electricity for production needs to 50% in the list of reasons for not going to wholesale. "But the negotiations with the Ministry of Energy are difficult: the situation suits the monopolist in the face of regional energy sales, who do not want to compete with the generation of industrial enterprises," concludes Mr. Lakhtikov.

JSC "Mondi Syktyvkarsky LPK" officially launched a large-scale project for the modernization of a combined heat and power plant (CHP). Investments in the first stage of modernization in the amount of more than 8 billion rubles are part of the approved Mondi capital investment program for 2017-2019. The main goal of the project is to ensure stable and safe generation of heat and electricity for the plant and the Komi Republic. The solemn ceremony of launching the project, which took place on May 25, was attended by representatives of the Komi government and the administration of Syktyvkar, the company's partners and the management of Mondi Syktyvkar JSC.

CHPP "Mondi SLPK" is one of the five main energy hubs, providing electricity of its own production for 17% of Komi's needs and covering the regional deficit in the southern part of the republic. The generation and supply of the plant with thermal and electric energy is a key moment in the work of the enterprise, where in June 1956 the first boiler and the first turbine generator with a capacity of 12 MW of electricity were launched. At present, the installed rated electric power of the CHPP (that is, the total power of all turbine generators) is 541 MW, and the thermal power is 1220 Gcal/h.

“The modernization of the CHPP is the largest investment project at the enterprise after the STEP project implemented in 2010. CHP is a key facility not only in the infrastructure of the plant. We not only provide about 20% of the region's electricity needs, but we are also the only source of heat and hot water for the Ezhvinsky district of the city of Syktyvkar with a population of about 60 thousand people. Our CHPP is unique on the scale of Russia in general and Mondi Group in particular. It has been operating for more than 50 years and deserves a full-fledged modernization program,” says Klaus Peller, CEO of Mondi SYK JSC.

The share of "green energy" production in the plant's total energy balance is 60%. Mondi SYK recycles 100% of bark and wood waste for energy production. Earlier, as part of the implementation of the large-scale investment project STEP, a new soda recovery boiler with a combustion capacity of 3,560 tons of solids/day, one of the largest in Russia, was put into operation at the CHPP. He replaced three old boilers of smaller capacity, which had exhausted their resources. The new boiler also has more efficient environmental performance, which has reduced the burden on the environment. A new turbine generator, a 150 m high chimney, new electrical equipment and a condensate treatment plant were also launched.

In 2013, the development of the concept of the CHPP modernization project began. It provides for several stages of the modernization process. In 2014, the concept of the modernization project was approved at the board level of Mondi SYK. At the end of November 2016, the board of the Mondi Group approved investments in the first stage of the strategic project. During the first phase of the project, a new bark boiler, steam turbine and switchgear will be built. The plant has already received a positive conclusion from the state examination and a permit for construction and installation work from supervisory authorities, and has concluded agreements with major suppliers. Commissioning of the new equipment is scheduled for 2019.

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Mondi Syktyvkar LPK JSC is part of the Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper business unit of the Mondi Group. The company is one of the leaders in the pulp and paper industry and the largest paper producer in Russia. The key business of Mondi SYK JSC is the production of office and offset paper. It also produces newsprint, top-liner board and unbleached market pulp. The most famous brand of the plant is Snegurochka office paper.

The electric power industry of our time is strikingly different even from the one that was twenty years ago, and there is no point in making comparisons with the times when the first incandescent bulbs appeared. A modern power plant is an automated production, the presence of a person in which is very limited. Such an enterprise operates with capacities not achievable by its predecessors.

The commissioning of the first capacities at the CHPP was planned in December 1965, so at that time it was important to staff the CHPP with personnel. Specialists were invited from thermal power plants of other pulp and paper mills and the USSR Ministry of Energy. At the same time, the problem of providing newcomers with housing was solved at an accelerated pace. This made it possible by the autumn of 1965 to almost completely staff the shift personnel and the management of the shops. Nevertheless, the closer the deadlines for commissioning the capacities came, the clearer it became that before the end of the year this could no longer be done. The Bureau of the Komi Regional Committee of the CPSU considered the reasons for the failure to commission the facility and strictly obliged the construction, installation, commissioning organizations, the management of the forestry complex and the thermal power plant to ensure the launch in June 1966. The management of the CHPP was strengthened: V.P. Babanov became the head, A.A. Skorokhodov became the chief engineer.

Subsequently, new power capacities were introduced at the CHPP more than once, but it was the first of them that today's veterans especially vividly remember, so much effort, nerves, personal time and selfless labor were spent on them. It is interesting that the CHPP team was included in the republican book dedicated to the history of the development of energy in Komi since the first years of Soviet power. Many employees of the SLPK thermal power plant were awarded orders and medals of the USSR, diplomas of the government, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Komi ASSR, the regional committee and the city committee of the CPSU for their valiant work, and some were awarded the title "Honored Worker of the National Economy of the Komi ASSR".

So, in 1966, the first CHPP boiler with a capacity of 75 tons of steam per hour and the first turbine with a capacity of 12 MW were put into operation. Since then, in parallel with the development of the plant, both the number of equipment and the capacity of the CHPP have increased many times over.
Among the main functions of the CHPP of OAO Mondi Syktyvkar now, as before, one can name the provision of heat (steam and hot water supply) and electric energy for the production of the enterprise, heat and hot water supply of the Ezhvinsky district, energy supply to third-party consumers, regeneration of lye and utilization of bark and wood waste .

As part of the well-known project "Step" - JSC "Mondi SLPK", the largest in the last 30 years in the pulp and paper industry of Russia - several new facilities have been built at the CHPP in recent years. This is a soda recovery boiler with a combustion capacity of 3560 tons of solids/day, today it is the largest in Russia. He replaced three old boilers of smaller capacity, which had exhausted their resources. The new boiler also has more efficient environmental performance, which has reduced the burden on the environment. Steam from the boiler is supplied by a new steam turbine, which has increased electricity generation by more than 80 MW.
At present, the installed rated electric power of the CHPP (ie the total power of all turbogenerators) is 553 MW, and the thermal power is 1220 Gcal/h.

The combined heat and power plant, like most power plants in Russia, is included in parallel operation in the country's general energy system. Simultaneously with the growth of installed capacities at the CHPP, the consumer load also increases. And if in previous years, in warm seasons, the balance of power flows to the Komienergo system was close to zero, at present, the CHPP supplies electricity to the system all year round, and in winter, the Mondi SYK CHP supply to the grid reaches 200 MW. Such a large value is due to the significantly increasing needs for electricity in winter for enterprises and the population of the southern regions of the Komi Republic. In fact, the Mondi SYK CHPP is the only power plant in the southern part of the republic, since the flow of electric power from the Pechorskaya GRES to the south is limited by the transmission line capacity. The CHPP also serves a large number of consumers of electrical and thermal energy directly in the industrial zone adjacent to the enterprise, and Ezhva is also supplied with electricity through 6 and 10 kV networks.

“As you can see, the CHPP has not only a large production load, but also a social one,” notes Pavel Bogdanov, head of Mondi SYK CHPP.- That is why one of the most important tasks facing the CHPP staff every year is to ensure stable, trouble-free operation. We cope with this task from year to year. In the hands of each employee of the CHPP is a huge responsibility for ensuring the efficiency of our plant, for the lives, health and well-being of many, many people. (zn)

"Mondi Syktyvkar LPK" has officially launched a large-scale project to modernize the combined heat and power plant. Representatives of the regional government and administration of Syktyvkar, partners and company management took part in the solemn ceremony on May 25.
As it was said at the ceremony, the CHPP is the "heart" of the plant, the smooth operation of which depends on the smooth operation of the most sophisticated equipment and the annual production of more than one million tons of high-quality paper, cardboard and market pulp, which are in great demand both in Russia and abroad.
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Investments in the first stage of modernization in the amount of more than 8 billion rubles are part of the approved Mondi capital investment program for 2017-2019. The main goal of the project is to ensure stable and safe generation of heat and electricity for the plant and Komi.
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"The modernization of the CHPP is the largest investment project at the enterprise after the STEP project, implemented in 2010. The CHPP is a key facility not only in the infrastructure of the plant. We provide about 20 percent of the region's electricity needs, this is a significant part, and we are also the only source heat and hot water for the Ezhvinsky district of Syktyvkar with a population of about 60,000 people. Our CHPP is unique on the scale of Russia in general and the Mondi group in particular. It has been operating for more than 50 years and deserves a full-fledged modernization program," the CEO said at the ceremony JSC "Mondi SYK" Klaus Peller.

Deputy Chairman of the Komi Government, Head of the Ministry of Construction of the Region Konstantin Lazarev stressed that the project is one of the largest in the Northwestern Federal District.
The CHPP has been operating reliably and without accidents for 51 years. “It is impossible not to say kind words to those who built, commissioned and operated this facility. I would like the field for launching this major investment project of the Mondi CHPP to work even more confidently. I believe that the project will serve the benefit of the republic and ensure sustainable energy supply not only to the plant, but to consumers," he said.

Mayor of Syktyvkar Valery Kozlov, in turn, noted that the CHPP is a major supplier of heat and hot water for almost 60,000 residents of Syktyvkar and Ezhva. Therefore, it is vital that the modernization be completed successfully within the stated time frame, so that there are no doubts about their stability and quality.
"The project is very large-scale. We thank the company for the decision made and for the fact that investments are directed specifically to the capital of Komi and the Ezhvinsky district," V. Kozlov said at the ceremony.

During the implementation of the project, a new bark boiler, steam turbine and switchgear will be built.
The guests were told in detail about the plans within the framework of the project. They also visited two construction sites. The new boiler will work alongside the existing one. The capacity of the new turbine is 84 megawatts.

The plant has already received a positive conclusion from the state examination and a permit for construction and installation work from supervisory authorities, and has concluded agreements with major suppliers. Commissioning of the new equipment is scheduled for 2019.

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