Kurgan CHPP

2025: Nationalization

In mid-October 2025, it became known that the Leninsky District Court Yekaterinburg satisfied the claim State Offices of Public Prosecutor RUSSIAN FEDERATION for the seizure of states assets of the GC "." STS Corporation Among them, in particular, was Kurgan CHPP LLC.

The decision was made within the framework of the case, the main defendants in which were Ural businessmen Alexei Bobrov and Artem Bikov. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, these persons, using their connections with the heads of federal and regional government agencies, illegally privatized a number of organizations, including Oblkommunenergo, which previously belonged to the Sverdlovsk region. According to the plaintiff, on the basis of this enterprise, the production complex of the STS Corporation was formed, which subsequently monopolized the generation and supply of electricity, water supply, as well as the sphere of MSW management services in the Kurgan, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen regions, in Yugra and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

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The nationalized Kurgan CHPP (Kurganskaya TETs-2) provides thermal energy generation in the city of Kurgan. This is said to be one of the most technically modern energy facilities in the Ural Federal District. The commissioning of the power plant made it possible to significantly reduce the existing energy shortage, ensure reliable and uninterrupted heat and power supply to consumers in the Kurgan region, as well as create a capacity reserve taking into account the prospects for the further development of the Kurgan.

The facility consists of two 111 MW power units. Each of them includes a 75 MW PG 6111FA gas turbine, a steam recovery boiler Siemens and a 38 MW SST-400 steam heating turbine. It is used as fuel. gas^[1]

2024: Removal of high-rise steel structures by laser

Russia For the first time, a laser installation was used to dismantle high-rise metal structures. As the state corporation Rosatom"" reported in mid-2024, the unique mobile laser system was used for the safe dismantling of overload cranes at the coal warehouse of the thermal power plant in Kurgan. This innovative dismantling method was implemented within the framework of cooperation between Rosatom construction and the Reform group of companies.

According to TASS, the mobile laser complex, developed by one of the institutes of the Scientific Division of Rosatom, has no analogues in Russia. The installation is capable of remotely cutting metal structures up to 300 mm thick from a distance of up to 200 meters. In the course of work at the Kurgan CHPP, specialists used a laser complex to cut the bearing supports of two cranes about 40 meters high and with a carrying capacity of up to 32 tons.

The difficulty of dismantling was the close proximity of the structures to the warehouse infrastructure, which required special accuracy and safety. Kirill Ilyin, General Director of the Rosatom Scientific Institute in Troitsk, stressed that the use of remote laser cutting made it possible to carry out work with jewelry accuracy, ensuring full compliance with all industrial safety requirements. Personnel and equipment were located up to 100 meters from the facility, which minimized risks.

This project was the first in partnership between the Scientific Division of Rosatom and the Reform Group of Construction Companies. Denis Prokhorov, Vice President of Reform, noted that the introduction of innovative solutions and high-tech equipment of Rosatom significantly increased the efficiency, economy and safety of dismantling work. The project demonstrates the prospects for technological development in the construction sector and shows how new technologies can improve the complex processes of dismantling high-rise structures.^[2]

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