Russia Business Directory

Nuclear power stations account for almost 10% of Russia’s energy production capacities and for 15% of the energy production (summer 2006). Russian govt is planning to increase their share in energy production by 2020 up to 19,5%.

Presently, Russia produces much less electricity than it needs. Consumption has been growing with an annual rate of 4-6%, while the capacities have not been upgraded.  Prior to 2005, electric energy consumption in Russia should have increased by 50 bn kWh, but in reality it increased by 73 bn kWh. Russian government claims the country’s loses about 5% of its GDP because of the insufficient energy supply of electric energy.

In order to fulfil the gap, Russia is presently reforming its electric energy system. You can read about the reform on this page on the website of United Energy Systems, fully state-owned organisation headed by former Russia’s finance minister Alexander Chubais.

Also President Putin said the reformation of the power system in Russia is one of the top priorities for the government calling the coming reforms the second grand electrification of the country referring to the famous GOELRO electrification project of the Soviet Russia initiated by Vladimir Lenin in the 1920s.

General information
Russian Companies Requirements for Industrial Equipment  (power and energy industry) (eng)

Russia's Power Industry – Commersant daily on-line news and information (eng)

Natural Monopolies – Research and Overview – a website of the Research Institute of Natural Monopolies presents updates on the situation in the oil, gas and energy sectors.

Exhibitions
Russia's Power Conference & Exhibition – March 2005, Moscow (eng)
Power Industry and Electrical Exhibition in St. Petersburg – 15-18th May, 2007 (eng)
Russia Power Exhibition – one of the largest exhibitions dedicated to the domestic power sector

Companies
RAO UES - the largest power holding in Russian Federation, generating 69.4% (635.8 billion kWh) of general electricity output, 32.4% (468,8 million Gcal) of general heat production. The company owns 96.1% of high-voltage grids (2,496.9 Tkm) and 77% of distribution network (1,747.416 Tkm) in Russia. Main export activity is directed towards the former CIS countries and Scandinavia.

Energocomplect, Moscow - supplies  power and other industrial equipment for power stations, boiler houses, substations, transmission lines, heat-supply and cable systems, construction projects and another equipment (eng)

New Technologies – Russia’s first independent electrical company, producing and selling electricity and heat energy produced on gas-fired power plants, involved in application of cogeneration technologies (CHP)

N-Power, Moscow  - produces uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) with AC and DC voltage output, static inverters and multi modular rectifiers, power generators (gen sets), voltage stabilizers, and also high precision air conditioning systems (eng)

Power Machines Group (Silovye Mashiny) – one of Russia’s biggest corporations, producer of energy power equipment, uniting Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod (LMZ), Electrosila, Polzunov’s Scientific and Development Association on Research and Design of Power Equipment (NPO CKTI), Kaluga Turbine Works (KTZ), Turbine Blades’ Plant (ZTL) and Energomachexport (EME).

Promstroykomplect, Tomsk – is specializing in production of electric power station, compressors, welding and other equipment (eng)

Sedin-Schiess, Krasnodar - Russian-German Joint Venture, manufactures of heavy-duty CNC Vertical lathes and CNC Vertical Turning Centers with the Range of workpiece diameter: 500-5000 mm (eng).

Urals Compressor Plant, Ekaterinburg - manufactures air/gas piston compressors of low and high pressure, diaphragm compressor units, mobile compressor stations, reciprocating expanders (eng).

Urals Turbine Works, Ekaterinburg - one of the leading Russian machine-building plants in design and manufacturing of power-generating equipment. Nowadays, enterprise, founded in 1938, specializes in producing of extraction steam turbines and gas turbines, gas compression units for natural gas (eng)

Ural Mining and Smelting Company, Sverdlovsk region - controls enterprises working in various industries, which enables it to unite and coordinate activities from the extraction of raw materials to the production of a wide range of products with a high degree of technological readiness (rus/eng)

If you didn’t find what you were looking for in English, here is one more:

Energy Equipment Producers – list of Russian manufacturers for the energy sector without a website in English. A list is compiled by an English website, gives a short description of companies, contact information and a link to their Russian website (if any) (eng)