Min says Russia can start making high-capacity turbines in 3–5 yrs

MOSCOW, Jun 29 (PRIME) -- Russia will produce the first models of 110 megawatt and higher capacity turbines, which it now has to import, in three to five years, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov told PRIME in an interview released on Friday.

“With the experience and competences of Power Machines, experience of Rostec represented by United Engine Corporation, I think that we will manage to produce the first models of the equipment in three to five years,” Manturov said.

The absence of locally manufactured high-capacity turbines caused a conflict with Germany’s Siemens, which said in July 2017 that all the four turbines meant to be used on a Russian power plant on the Taman Peninsula were illegally shipped to Crimea, forcing it to cancel its licensing agreements to sell power equipment to Russian firms and suspend the current agreements with state-run companies.

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