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KHABAROVSK, December 12 Rosseti PJSC has provided one of the country's largest copper enterprises at the Malmyzh Mining and Processing Plant (GOK) in the Khabarovsk Territory with capacity, they reported in «Trunk Electric Networks» («MES of the East»).
Rosseti energized the 500 kV Nergen switching point, which became a key element of the power supply scheme of the Malmyzh Mining and Processing Plant. The facility has access from the power transmission line connecting the key power centers of the Khabarovsk Territory — the 500 kV substations «Khabarovskaya» and «Komsomolskaya». The maximum consumer connection capacity was 250 MW,” said the Rosseti branch.
Project cost — more than 12 billion rubles , the department clarified.
Nergen is 100% equipped with modern Russian equipment, noted MES of the East. A “smart” electricity metering system has been implemented at the facility.
«New 500 kV transits «Khabarovskaya — Nergen» and «Komsomolskaya — Nergen» with a length of 287.5 and 76.6 kilometers have been created. A busbar 270 meters long has been laid from the switching point to the 500 kV consumer substation «Taezhnaya», — the department added.
The Malmyzhskoye field is located 274 kilometers from Khabarovsk on the border of the Amur and Nanai regions. Reserves amount to 2.4 billion tons of ore, 8.32 million tons of copper and 347 tons of gold. The mining and processing plant is being built by Amur Minerals (part of the Russian Copper Company) — a resident of the Khabarovsk priority development territory. The enterprise's production capacity will allow it to process 104 million tons of ore annually. The launch is scheduled for 2024, the operation period is expected until 2056. More than 2.5 thousand jobs will be created.
PJSC «Rosseti» is the largest electric grid company in the Russian Federation. In its area of responsibility there are almost 2.5 million kilometers of power lines and about 550 thousand substations of different voltage classes. Almost 80% of the electricity generated in Russia is transmitted through networks owned or operated by the company.