Message-ID: <199511011905.LAA29272@cdp.igc.apc.org> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:05:48 -0800 From: Tom Gray <mailto:tomgray@IGC.APC.ORG> Subject: --Missile Giant to Build Wind Units To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
/* Written 11:00 AM Nov 1, 1995 by tomgray in igc:energy.news */ UKRAINE MISSILE PLANT TO START TURNING OUT WIND TURBINES SOONAfter three years of negotiations and talks, the former Soviet Union's largest builder of intercontinental ballistic missiles, Ukraine's Yuzhmash, will soon start cranking out Model 56-100 wind turbines designed by Kenetech Windpower (see Wind Energy Weekly #624, November 28, 1994).
The wind machines will be built by the Ukrainian industrial giant at an assembly plant near the city of Dnepropetrovsk, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which said Kenetech is currently training Yuzhmash personnel on turbine assembly, repair and quality control.
The Yuzhmash turbines will be used for a planned 500-MW wind farm on the Crimean Peninsula that will fill a part of the lost power production from the troubled Chernobyl nuclear plant. (Several Western companies announced May 27 that they had reached an agreement with Ukraine to replace the bulk of the Chernobyl facility's power output with a large gas-fired plant. Ukraine has promised to close Chernobyl by the year 2000.)
The wind turbine deal will also provide additional benefits to Ukraine, the article said. Using wind energy, a domestic energy source, to generate power will help the former Soviet republic to preserve its small and dwindling hard currency reserves.
While Kenetech provides technology and trains workers to build the machines, the article said, Yuzhmash will fabricate spare parts in return for Kenetech's current fleet of more than 4,000 56-100 units operating in California. Ukrainian spare parts production will meet about one-fourth of Kenetech's needs, reducing annual parts expenses by several million dollars. _______________________________________________________________________________
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