Advanced technologies of renewable power engineering

16. Advanced technologies of renewable power engineering

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   Technological platform coordinator – JSC RusHydro
   
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   The list of enterprises and organizations engaged in creation of the process platform
   

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  JSC RusHydro
  
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  CJSC APBE
  
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  Non-Commercial Partnership “Hydro power Engineering”
  
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  Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnic University
  
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  JSC B.E. Videneev VNIIG
  
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  JSC NIIES
  
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  JSC Hydroproject Institute
  
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  CJSC Lead Institute of Energy Strategy
  
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  OJSC “Research Center of Power engineering”
  
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  OIVT RAN
  
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  Ioffe Physical Technical Institute
  
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  RFNC – VNIIEF
  
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  RSC Kurchatov Institute
  
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  LLC Center of Energy Efficiency Inter RAO UES
  
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  Non-Commercial Partnership National Carbon Union
  
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  Moscow Energy Institute (TU)
  
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  Russian State Hydrometeorological University
  
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  Far East Federal University
  
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  LLC Heat Pump Systems
  
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  LLC Branan
  
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  LLC Energy-invest
  
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  Merkados
  

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   The TP objective is to combine the efforts of the state, innovative community, industry, construction industry, power engineering, research, design
   and educational spheres, electric power consumers and the RF subjects in creating the conditions for RES development, implementation of highly efficient power generating technologies, meeting the requirements of domestic economy and rendering competitive services and products in the domestic
   and global markets.
   

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  market monitoring and analysis, assessment of technical level and usage
  of RES in Russia and in the World.
  
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  development of general strategic research program coordinating and directing the science actions for the benefit of industry and consumers;
  
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  synchronization of activities carried out by state authorities, scientific and research organizations with objectives and time frames of strategic program;
  
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  determination of commercial projects in the sphere of design and introduction of basic equipment and their implementation and following-up;
  
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  encouragement of state and private investments into R&D within
  the framework of strategic development program;
  
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  assistance in developing of regulation rates, rules and standards making
  it possible to carry out design, construction and operation of generating facilities based on new technologies with RES usage.
  
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  assistance in education development and qualification enhancement in RES usage.
  

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   Renewable and hydropower generating technologies are planned to be developed within the framework of this TP:
   

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  Hydro power generation (incl. small-scale power generation)
  
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  Wind power generation
  
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  Tide, wave and stream power generation
  
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  Solar power generation
  
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  Geothermal power generation
  
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  Energy storage systems
  
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  Power supply systems based on comprehensive usage of RES.
  

Information about the process platform coordinating organization

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   Legal address: 660099, Russian Federation, the Krasnoyarsk Region, Krasnoyarsk, Respubliki str., 51.
   
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   Actual address: 117393, Moscow, Arkhitektor Vlasov str., 51
   
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   E-mail: _{0>OFFICE@RUSHYDRO.RU_<}0{>office@rushydro.ru
   
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   Official internet web page: _{0>http://rushydro.ru/_<}0{>http://rushydro.ru/
   
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   Contact person: O.A. Kalinko, Head of Direction for Innovation Development
   

Tel. +7 (495) 2253232*1412, +7 (916) 2236867, fax +7 (495) 2253737,

KalinkoOA@rushydro.ru

17. Small-Scale Distributed Power Generation

Technological platform Small-Scale Distributed Power Generation was established by the founders at a meeting held in the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation (Protocol №1-ТП-18-11-10, Nov.18, 2010) at the request of Energy Forecasting Agency, Russian Peat and Bioenergy Society and INTER RAO UES.

2) Platform coordinator

Technological platform Small-Scale Distributed Power Generation is coordinated by the Energy Forecasting Agency, headed by general director I.Kozhukhovskiy.

Contact information:

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  Olga Novosyelova, Director of Department of Ecology and Energy Efficiency, Energy Forecasting Agency, phone (495) 710-59-06, noa@e-apbe.ru
  
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  Natalya Ushakova phone (495) 710-47-33, umn@e-apbe.ru
  

As of May 16, 2011, the project included 139 members, i.a. United Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Korolev Institute for Hydrogen Energy Generation, Energomash Group, United Engine-Building Corporation (UEC), RAO Energy Systems of East, the executive authorities of the Yaroslavl Region and the Republic of Tatarstan, member organizations of the Russian Peat and Bioenergy Society, the National Association for Small-Scale Power Generation, as well as other participants from various Russian regions.

4) Key objectives of the technological platform

The platform Small-Scale Distributed Power Generation seeks to generate new technologies and innovations to overhaul the Russian energy generation system; this can be achieved by transition from large centralized facilities to a plurality of energy generation patterns that better meets individual consumer demand, corresponds to local environment and fulfils requirements of the federal policy for higher energy efficiency.

The Small Distributed Power Generation platform seeks to achieve the following results:

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  To achieve more efficient use of local energy resources and renewable sources of energy;
  
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  To create standard technological solutions for a wide-ranging modernization in the housing and utilities area, to improve rural energy infrastructure and remove the imbalances in territorial development due to inhibited access to energy;
  
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  to minimize the investment threshold in order to facilitate the participation of grassroots investors in energy generation facilities, i.e. small and mid-size businesses, venture capital, municipalities and a wide spectrum of stakeholders;
  
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  to reduce energy-related consumer expenditures and improve energy price formation;
  
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  to enable consumers to choose their energy supply patterns, to involve individual savings and other resources in providing environmental and energy security and create good living conditions;
  
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  to optimize Russia’s power generation system through connecting a portion of consumers to local energy grids;
  
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  to foster the creation of a Smart Grid in Russia.
  

Small-scale power generation will benefit virtually every sector of economy: production, housing and utilities, agriculture and forestry, construction industry, transport and logistics, tertiary industry etc. Current, distributed energy generation will primarily fulfill the needs of rural communities, as well as remote and isolated regions of the country that have no centralized system of energy supply (which accounts for as much as 2/3 of Russia’s territory and 20mln inhabitants); this technology could also be used as a portable energy source in emergencies.

Distributed Power Generation is particularly sought after in:

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   remote and isolated areas in which energy supplies present a considerable challenge and incur substantial costs;
   
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   new industries based on digital technologies which are particularly sensitive to the quality of energy supply;
   
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   public power supply, as well as services and industries which are in a permanent need of both heat and electricity, which makes co-generation facilities particularly relevant;
   
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   mobile consumers (transport, construction industry, timber harvesting, tourism, emergency and rescue operations, households etc.)
   

The Platform supports a wide range of technologies, i.a. in energy-related fields:

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  engines for energy generation equipment: gas turbines, microturbines, new engine types (external heat rotary engines) etc.
  
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  fluidized bed energy generation units
  
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  fuel cells
  

- energy storage units

- automated energy management systems (microgrids)

- new technologies in constructing local power networks

Engineering technologies that make an efficient use of resources

- heat pumps

- energy conservation and heat recuperation in central heating, ventilation and air conditioning

- local systems of gas supply, distribution and LNG storage.

Technologies based on renewable and local energy resources:

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  modern peat technologies
  
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  gasification of local fuel resources, production and household wastes using synthetic gas in power generation
  
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  utilization of renewable energy sources in local integrated power grids, i.a. in modular electricity generators that generate power from combined sources: the sun, the wind, small rivers, etc. plus conventional fuels.
  

- integrated construction, engineering and architectural solutions

- low-energy technologies (passive houses).
6) Prospective avenues of cooperation with foreign companies and organizations

At its initial stage, the development of the Platform will require cooperation with foreign companies and organizations (primarily with participants to European energy platforms) in order to acquire relevant experience in the management of technological platforms, attraction of investments etc.

In the mid-term, Small-Scale Distributed Power Generation is to give rise to new forms of cooperation, i.a. joint R&D initiatives, pilot projects in the implementation of the platform-related solutions. Another aspect of cooperation is to analyze gaps in the Russian market of respective technologies and attract foreign companies for the purpose of manufacturing components that cannot be produced domestically.

Over the long term, the technological platform is designed to give a boost to the Russian science and technology, secure its technological excellence and provide it with access to foreign markets, which can be achieved through cooperation with leading international business and production communities.