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2023: Gazprombank's withdrawal from the company's capital

On April 1, 2024, it became known about Gazprombank's withdrawal from the capital of VetroOGK-2, which is engaged in the construction of wind farms. As a result, Rosatoma became the sole owner of the project.

The bank withdrew from the project by selling its stake, and plans to continue financing and investing renewable energy projects, as it sees the demand for this type of energy from investors, Gazprombank told Interfax.

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The agency recalls that GPB-Wind Generation owns 49.5% in the capital of VetroOGK-2 JSC, but since November 2023, Rosatom and its subsidiaries (NovaWind and AtomCapital) have been shareholders of the company.

NovaWinda also has another controlled structure - VetroOGK-3. This company, according to Interfax on April 1, 2024, has no staff, NovaWind is its only shareholder. According to its reporting, the company is the operator of the investment project for the construction of wind farms in 2025-2027. The project involves the construction of the Novolak wind farm in Dagestan at 300 MW with commissioning in 2025, as well as "promising wind generation facilities with an installed capacity of 140-165 MW" and commissioning in 2026.

The publication also notes that VetroOGK-2 previously won a competition for the right to build renewable energy facilities for 1 GW in the period up to 2027.^[1]

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In February 2024, GPB-Wind Generation, owned by Gazprombank, bought 49.5% of the shares of VetroOGK JSC from Rosatom structures. The bank explained this transaction by the fact that Gazprombank supports contracts for the supply of renewable energy capacity (PDM RES) and therefore uses various financial instruments for this.

2017: Rosatom chose RusHydro for the wind

VetroOGK (part of Rosatom) has chosen a designer for the first 150 MW of wind farms in Adygea, Deputy General Director of the company Andrei Demchuk said in November 2017 in Amsterdam. The designer will be a consortium of Mosoblhydroproekt, a member of RusHydro, Finnish Peikko (foundation work) and Danish DIS. Design work is due to be completed in March 2018. As Mr. Demchuk specified, Rosatom^[2]

Adygea projects are included in the first 610 MW of wind farms, which VetroOGK received in 2016 at the selection of green power projects for the wholesale energy market (the total portfolio of the company's wind farms is 970 MW). Investments in wind farms (approximately 143 thousand rubles per kW of power) are expected to be returned within 15 years through power supply contracts (PDM RES). PDM RES assume the localization of components, the Dutch Lagerway has been chosen as the technological partner of VetroOGK (it should create a joint venture with Novavind, the Rosatom division responsible for new non-atomic technologies). The total investment in the program for creating a wind farm and a plant for the production of components in the Russian Federation in VetroOGK was estimated at $2 billion.

WindOGK's competitors in the wind farm construction segment are Finnish Fortum and Italian Enel. The technological partner of Fortum Energia (a joint foundation of Fortum and Rusnano) will be the Danish Vestas, which planned to increase localization to 65% by 2019 (in the Russian Federation it will produce VES blades and towers). Within five years, the fund invests about 30 billion rubles. in the construction of 1 GW of windmills. In the first quarter of 2018, Fortum plans to introduce its first wind farm in the Ulyanovsk region (35 MW). Enel's technological partner will be Siemens Gamesa, the world's largest WEU manufacturer, created in 2017 with the merger of the Spanish Gamesa and the wind assets of the German energy concern. Enel portfolio in Russia - 291 MW WEU.

See also

• Wind Power and Wind Power Plants (Russia and the World)
• Alternative power (Russia and the World)
• Solar power in Russia and the world
• Nuclear Power. Facts and Myths
• Smart Grid

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