The regional project
Rosatom’s wind-energy division planned a second wind farm in Rostov Region, regional industry and energy minister Andrey Savelyev told Interfax on 9 September 2024. The project would be located in Morozovsky District. The minister described the development as the company’s second project in the region, following the Marchenkovskaya wind farm completed in 2021. At the time of the statement, Rostov Region had six operating wind farms with combined capacity of 610 megawatts.
- Planned capacity: up to 150 megawatts.
- Planned construction year: 2026.
The cooperation agreement
Rosatom’s official announcement of 8 July 2024 recorded the signing of a cooperation agreement with the government of Rostov Region to build a wind-power station in the region. The agreement was signed during the Innoprom industrial exhibition in Ekaterinburg.
The division’s registered name
The company’s name had changed before the September statement. In a release dated 23 August 2024, Rosatom reported that NovaWind had been renamed Rosatom Renewable Energy, Joint-Stock Company, and that the registration authority had registered the new name. The renaming formed part of the corporation’s unified-brand programme under a government order dated 22 January 2024. The wind-energy division, founded in September 2017, manages design, construction, engineering and operation of wind-power stations. The same release reported over one gigawatt commissioned and a programme targeting approximately 1.7 gigawatts of total wind-power capacity by 2027.
The earlier Marchenkovskaya development
The Marchenkovskaya project had reached its turbine-installation milestone in June 2021. The corporate publication Strana Rosatom reported on 5 June that all forty-eight turbines were installed, alongside a 110-kilovolt substation, control facility, roads, cables and fibre-optic lines. Deputy general director Andrey Nesteruk said commissioning and preparations for energising the station were continuing. The project’s installed capacity was 120 megawatts, with planned average annual generation of at least 402 gigawatt-hours and construction investment above sixteen billion roubles. Those parameters belonged to Marchenkovskaya, the division’s earlier regional facility.
Remote power control
On 5 July 2021, the System Operator of the Unified Energy System announced that its southern and Rostov dispatch branches had jointly tested and commissioned remote power control at Marchenkovskaya with NovaWind. The system allowed automated control of the forty-eight turbines from the Rostov dispatch centre through dedicated digital communication channels and a common local control system. It covered both active and reactive power. The operator said reactive-power control enabled rapid voltage adjustment in network nodes and provided an additional tool for emergency control and optimising operating conditions. The partners also tested telemetry exchange between the station and dispatch centre.
Company contacts
Rosatom Renewable Energy, Joint-Stock Company.
Company correspondence address: 18 Shchipok Street, Building 2, Moscow, 115093.
Phone: (495) 286-52-00.
Email: info@rosatom-renewables.ru.
Website: https://rosatom-renewables.ru/
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