Within the frames of XIII Forum of Interregional Cooperation of Kazakhstan and Russia that is taking place in Astana city, Central-Asian Electric Power Corporation (CAEPCO) and Ural Turbine Works (UTW) have concluded the Memorandum of Cooperation. It is the third agreement between the companies oriented on the generation equipment modernization.

Under terms of the agreement, Ural Turbine Works will take part in the modernization of three Т-100 turbines and one ПТ-135 turbine at objects of CAEPCO JSC. A total cost of modernization is 11.7 billion KZT. Yerkyn Amirkhanov, President of CAEPCO JSC, and Mikhail Lifshitz, Chairman of Board of Directors of Ural Turbine Works CJSC (ROTEC holding company that is included in the Renova Group of Companies) have affixed their signatures to the document.

Within the framework of their cooperation, the parties will consider a possibility of introduction of industrial internet technologies — a PRANA system for a prognosis of generation equipment condition — at CAEPCO JSC's power plants. The system developed by ROTEC specialists is based on adaptable mathematic models and allows defining deviations in operation and isolating defects of equipment at an early stage — two or three months before the identification thereof by a standard unit control system. The PRANA system has already been successfully operating at a number of Russian power plants for more than one year. A similar system will be installed in Kazakhstan for the first time.

As a practice of cooperation between Russian mechanical engineers and Kazakhstani power engineers shows, costs for modernization of each turbine are approximately 2 times lower, than in case of construction of a new power generating unit (on the basis of generation of 1KW of energy). At that, key performance characteristics of equipment such as efficiency, capacity, and specific fuel consumption are improved. 

"The program of generating units modernization implemented by CAEPCO JSC since 2007 in partnership with Ural Turbine Works will be continued till 2021. It is important to stress that cooperation with UTW has already allowed updating the industrial base of generating objects in North-Kazakhstan and Pavlodar regions in a substantial way: the works has manufactured 8 turbines with the total power of 726MW for CAEPCO JSC. Thanks to the modernization at power plants, citizens of regions are provided with power and heat energy on an uninterruptible basis", - has told Yerkyn Amirkhanov, President of CAEPCO JSC – the largest private company in the Kazakhstan electric power industry – at the signing ceremony.

 "Kazakhstan is one of the most important markets for us. The electric power industry modernization program, which is the most effective in the post-Soviet territory, has being implemented here for years. The program allows us together with our Kazakhstani colleagues not only to develop effective solutions on capacities renovation, but also to apply them. And such work concerns both turbines, and ancillary equipment. I hope that the next joint step – introduction of industrial internet technologies, in point of fact – a cybernation of CAEPCO generating capacities – will be no less successful. And, as a consequence, there will be a transfer from equipment preventive repair to repair as required. I wish to accentuate that work with our Kazakhstani partners is honorable and interesting for us at the same time", – has noted Mikhail Lifshitz, Chairman of Board of Directors of Ural Turbine Works CJSC.