Baikalsk will not turn into a garden city with an old and extremely unecological boiler house at the BPPM. Baikal.Center LLC, a subsidiary of the state corporation VEB.RF, proposes to transfer the city to electric power generation. To do this, it is necessary to divide Baikalsk into 10 microdistricts and build an electric boiler house in each of them.
Each boiler house with a capacity of 185 MW will be equipped with modern induction electric boilers equipped with thermal energy storage tanks and laying about 80 kilometers of heat distribution networks.
Sounds cool, right? Sorry to disappoint you.
If we look at the numbers and look at the situation on a larger scale, we will see that the idea of electric boiler houses is not so great, and there is no smell of concern for the environment. But very much money.
We look carefully. Ten electric boiler houses of 185 megawatts is almost two thousand megawatts of electricity
For a town with a population of 12.5 thousand people, this is too much and impractical, even taking into account the planned population growth. To make it clearer: the capacity of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station is 687 megawatts, the Novo-Irkutsk coal thermal power plant is 708 megawatts, the Gusinoozerskaya state district power plant is 1190 megawatts. And this is the first question to the developers of this ingenious plan (read – VEB.RF).
The second issue is the electricity itself for the stations. In even approximate proximity (to Irkutsk 150 kilometers, to Gusinoozersk about 300 kilometers in a straight line through Khamar-Daban) there are no such energy capacities.
At the same time, you need to understand that the Novo-Irkutsk CHPP and the Irkutsk HPP are loaded, they do not have such an amount of free electricity. The Gusinoozerskaya GRES supplies Ulan-Ude and is exported to Mongolia, so it will not be possible to connect there either.
The third question is the cost of this wonderful initiative. One kilowatt/hour costs a little more than a ruble, but we will round it up. A megawatt will cost a thousand rubles, and two thousand megawatts per day will cost 48 million rubles. Half a billion a year. Think about these numbers, gentlemen. Neither the city budget, nor even the regional one can afford such expenses.
But wait, the fourth question for Baikal Center and VEB has matured. First of all, it is necessary to stretch the heating network. To do this, you need to dig a ditch 3 meters deep and about 80 kilometers long. Pipes need to be laid there, insulated, insulated and buried back.
Channel laying a pipe of 500 millimeters with insulation costs about two thousand rubles per meter on the market. This is 160 million for pipes alone. Earthworks will cost five times more. That is, a billion will need to be spent only on laying pipes, not counting the equipment of the boiler houses themselves.
Investments in Baikalsk are already impressive, the federal center will not give money for this because of the inexpediency and low probability of implementation (remember that there is simply nowhere to get electricity from). But the budget will cover the development of the plan and the miserable attempts to implement it, but part of the money will end up in the pockets of the initiators.