Another tidal power plant for 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.

Sevmash in 2006 finished construction of a new power generator for the Kislogubskaya station, which replaced the station’s old generator, which had been in operation since the late 1960s. It is expected that the generator of the Kolskaya tidal power station will be built on the model of the Kislogubskaya.

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