Russia continues to export power engineering equipment to Kazakhstan, despite the republic's refusal to use domestic turbines for the Ekibastuz GRES-2 project. Deliveries are proceeding for other facilities, including the modernization of stations already in operation.
Recently, equipment was manufactured and shipped by the Kaluga Turbine Plant (KTZ), said the company's CEO Ivan Serbin.
Recently, products were shipped for the Ekibastuz GRES and the Uralsk CHP plant.
Russia is actively involved in the construction and modernization of Kazakhstan's energy facilities. Some unique components, such as a special type of turbines that make it possible to use even the tiniest fragments of steam in operation, are manufactured exclusively in Kaluga — at the turbine plant.
At the same time, Kazakhstan previously revised the construction of a new unit at Ekibastuz GRES-2 and abandoned Russian turbines and generators in favor of the Chinese supplier Harbin Electric International.
According to the republic's Ministry of Energy, this made it possible to reduce the project cost by more than 250 billion tenge — from about 650 to less than 400 billion tenge. Apparently, Kazakhstan is diversifying suppliers in large-scale construction projects, but is maintaining cooperation with Russia in the modernization of existing generation facilities.