Another tidal power plant for Kola Peninsula
The Sevmash construction plant in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, has been assign with the construction of a new tidal power plant to be placed on the coast of Murmansk Oblast. The power plant will be the second of its kind in the Kola Peninsula.
The Kolskaya Tidal Power Plant will be placed in the Dolgaya Bay, a branch of the Ura-Guba fjord in the Kola Peninsula. The power plant is planned finished and in operation from year 2010, the Sevmash company reports in a press release.
The Kolskaya Tidal Power Plant will be the second in the Kola Peninsula. From before the Kislogubskaya plant – located in another branch of the Ura-Guba area – is in operation.
The new power station is ordered by the Scientific Research Institute of Energy Structures (NIIES). The projection of the station will be completed in the course of 2008, while construction is due to be finished in 2010.
Both the tidal power plants will be located near the military town of Vidyaeva, about 80 km west of Murmansk city.
Photo: Site for the Kolskaya Tidal Power Station (tidal-mezen.ru)
Photos: Sevmash.ru and Tidal-mezen.ru
