RusHydro announced plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

By 2025, the RusHydro group plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 6% compared to the 2015 base. The specific emissions of CO2 related to the production of electricity will be reduced by 7.7%, and the specific emissions related to heat vacation will decrease by 6.4%.

As explained in the company, it is planned to reduce emissions by reducing emissions by replacing the release capacities of thermal generation in the Far East with new, more environmentally friendly, CHPs, the input of new hydroelectric power stations, the implementation of programs for increasing energy efficiency and expanding projects in the field of renewal and winding stations.

“According to experts, the production of electricity by hydroelectric power plants RusHydro prevent emissions into the atmosphere of more than 100 million tons of carbon dioxide annually,” the company said. “Moreover, on the basis of full -scale research and preliminary modeling results, scientists made conclusions that in fact, the reservoirs of Russian hydroelectric power plants absorb greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, contributing to the fight against global climate changes.”

RusHydro, recall, several large hydroelectric power stations in Siberia. At the same time, the company operates 19 solar power plants, three geothermal power plants, four wind energy complexes, a tidal power station and about 30 small hydroelectric power stations.

In 2017, three solar power plants in Yakutia and Malaya hydroelectric power station in Karachay-Cherkessia were commissioned. Now RusHydro is engaged in the construction of small hydroelectric power stations in the North Caucasus and the wind energy complex in the Arctic district of Yakutia.