Russia (bbabo.net) - The growth in electricity production has become an indicator of the recovery of the domestic economy. According to preliminary data from the Ministry of Energy, in 2021, at the beginning of November, more than 1,123 billion kilowatt-hours were generated (plus 5.6 percent by 2020).

As the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Nikolai Shulginov said: "In the field of electricity and heating, the implementation of strategic initiatives continued, including attracting investments for the modernization of thermal power plants, half of the selections have already taken place. Next, we will focus on the development of hydroelectric power generation and the combined cycle."

The further development of the industry will, among other things, determine the obligations of the Russian Federation to reduce carbon emissions, which Russia plans to fulfill by 2060. During this time, the country's energy balance will continue to transform. The share of nuclear generation and renewable energy sources will be gradually increased. The share of natural gas will remain approximately the same. In addition, the planned increase in the share of hydroelectric power plants will allow minimizing cases of irrational waste, idle spillways and increasing the reliability of work in the energy systems of Siberia and the Far East. Along with this, the construction of pumped storage stations up to 5 MW will be resumed, which will make it possible to neutralize the variable part of renewable energy sources associated with a change in illumination, or to controllably carry out periods of reducing the wind load for wind farms.

At the same time, as the head of the energy department emphasized, the refusal from hydrocarbons should not lead to a disruption of the stable operation of the economy. “The government is developing a plan for adapting the Russian economy to the global eneo-transition. There is no universal recipe for eneo-transition today, Russia is also emphasizing this at the international level. ditching hydrocarbons should take into account both technological possibilities and economic consequences. "

Changes in the country's energy balance will need to be reflected in Russia's energy strategy, according to the Ministry of Energy, and the planning horizons in its positions should be expanded. According to the strategy, key decisions to change the energy balance will take place in the 2030s-2050s.

Generating companies of the Russian Federation are ready to offer consumers more than 400 billion kWh of low-carbon energy In the near future, one of the elements of the global transformation of the electric power complex will be a system of low-carbon certificates. They will be issued upon the production of electricity at facilities with a low carbon footprint (SES, WES, HPP, NPP). The Ministry of Energy has already developed a bill on the circulation of such certificates. Andrei Maksimov, Director of the Electricity Development Department, said: “According to our estimate, the amount of low-carbon energy that generating companies are ready to offer within the framework of the future system of green certificates is more than 400 billion kWh. the system is not expected. Also for its functioning it is necessary to create a verification system and a unified register to confirm the origin of electricity ". The market is already ready to integrate into the new certification system today. Oleg Barkin, deputy chairman of the NP Association Market Council, noted: “Market participants need tools that allow them to reliably confirm the carbon footprint of electricity. This year, companies in Russia began to actively conclude "green" deals using bilateral agreements and certificates. This is primarily due to ESG reporting requirements, financing terms or customer preferences. Also, a certain demand catalyst was the prospect of introducing a mechanism for border carbon regulation, although so far it has not clarified the procedure for accounting for indirect energy emissions and the use of market-based tools to reduce the carbon footprint for this. "

Despite the lack of clarity, it is already clear that such tools will help improve the quality of sectoral planning, including in connection with the development of solar and wind generation. As the general director of Rosseti Andrey Ryumin noted, the eneo-transition requires the solution of both promising and urgent problems. "Reliability remains a key criterion. On the whole, Russia's grid complex is now, of course, reliable by world standards. However, the picture is not uniform, there are regions with a very high level of equipment wear. This situation has developed due to a lack of sources to finance modernization programs. This is the dilemma key for the development of energy in our country, "Ryumin emphasized.According to him, the energy transition and the increase in the energy balance in the share of wind and solar energy will require the construction of a huge number of generating capacities. At the same time, it is necessary to think about how many networks will need to be built? And these are not only networks for connecting new renewable energy facilities. “We need to understand how this network will behave, how many power lines need to be built to connect to solar or wind power generation, how many emergency automation and relay protection systems will need to be installed, we mean a house where the end consumer has a solar mini-station on the roof, an electric car in the garage, a lot of gadgets and energy devices, and maybe an energy storage device. As of today, our energy complex is not ready for this, and, of course, when we talk about electromobility, several hundred electric filling stations installed in Moscow, for example, have no effect on the network today.

But in 10-20 years, this is already thousands and tens of thousands of electric stations, despite the fact that an electric car can act as a storage device for electricity and give it back to the network. We do not yet know how much effort and money it will take to change the network as a whole, and this is the main global challenge for the network complex, "he stressed.

Of course, Andrei Ryumin is sure, the need for such an eneo-transition is indisputable. "But the Eneo transition is impossible without networks, and all issues of Eneo transition must be considered together with the plans for the development of networks," he stressed.

Digitalization is already yielding results in the implementation of infrastructure projects An example of a certain imbalance is already evident today in the work of wind power in the southern regions of the country. Technological solutions taking shape today will make it possible to avoid such problems in the future. So, for example: remote services, digital registers of subjects and objects, formalized description of business processes, automatic measurements and data collection from metering points, remote control of delivery terms, digital modeling of the energy system and other formats will help to comprehensively change the system of relations in the industry. The processes of digitalization of power engineering are already yielding positive results in the implementation of large infrastructure projects. So, the implementation of the measures of the comprehensive plan for the modernization and expansion of the main infrastructure to increase the throughput and carrying capacity of the Baikal-Amur and Trans-Siberian mainlines provides for the development and modernization of grid generation facilities with an increase in generating capacities, with the replacement of retired capacities, with the construction of about 5 thousand kilometers of 220-500 lines kV. The amount of funding is 725 billion rubles. The implementation of power grid facilities and generation facilities by 2027 will fully ensure.

New network facilities are needed not only to increase the throughput of railways and to connect new facilities of Russian Railways in Siberia and the East, but also to solve other problems, for example, the development of gold mining and coal enterprises, the port area of ​​Nakhodka. This year, the construction of a thousand-kilometer Kola-Karelian transit 330 kV is being completed, which will ensure the delivery of the "locked" capacity of the Kola NPP, as well as the wind power station under construction on the Kola Peninsula.

It is obvious that large-scale network construction is needed to integrate large volumes of renewable energy sources and connect new infrastructure facilities to the energy system. According to the Ministry of Energy, by 2040 this volume of construction should be twice as much as that which has already been built in the networks over the past 130 years. Electrical power engineering continues to be at the center of current and future transformations both in the production of heat and electricity, and taking into account the technological adaptation of the energy system to new types of generation.

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