The units are becoming more efficient. There is no escape from progress.
Progress inevitably moves forward, and with it the efficiency of various mechanisms and units, including power engineering products, increases. Taking advantage of this circumstance, Russian power engineers are now massively modernizing existing power capacities.
There are several reasons why this needs to be done. Firstly, the old equipment has already served its purpose and requires replacement. Secondly, the new equipment will allow generating more electricity without changing the design and operating modes of power plants, and Russia now, in the period of new industrialization, really needs energy. And thirdly, modernization partially reduces the need to build completely new generating units.
Improvement is underway, in particularVotkinsk hydroelectric power station in Perm Krai. The process is gradual, and by the time it is completed, the total capacity of the station will reach 1,150 MW, or approximately 13% more than it was before the start of modernization work.
RusHydro, the company responsible for Russian hydroelectric power plants, noted that over the 12 years of the comprehensive modernization program, the capacity of Russian hydroelectric power plants has increased by a total of 624 megawatts.
