20 April 2021

A large-scale investment project is being implemented at Minsk CHPP-5 – a 300 MW gas turbine power plant (GTPP) based on six Siemens SGT-800 turbines is being created. It is the largest of the four peak-standby energy source (PSES) under construction today for the unified power grid of the Republic of Belarus.

Being in the mode of continued readiness to launch, the new facility will maintain, if necessary, the balance of generation and consumption of electricity. The equipment of the GTPP is characterized by high maneuverability – it will take less than 15 minutes to responsively start it and fill the power deficit in the power grid.

Currently, the contractor performs preparatory work for the installation of foundations and mounting of gas turbine units, process and auxiliary equipment. Delivery of the first turbine is scheduled for June this year.

Three more Belarusian PSESs are being built at the sites of existing thermal power plants of the RUE Brestenergo and Vitebskenergo. At the Berezovskaya SDPP will operate GTPP with a capacity of 254 MW consisting of 5 SGT-800 turbines, at the Lukomlskaya SDPP – GTPP-150MW (3 turbines), at the Novopolotsk CHPP – GTPP-100MW (2 turbines). It is assumed that the operating time of each peak power facility will be approximately 700 hours per year and up to 350 starts from the cold state.

New capacities are aimed at increasing the reliability and flexibility of the Belarusian power grid. Gas-turbine power units will be used as a reserve both for the existing infrastructure and for future wind, solar and nuclear power plants. The commissioning of the PSESs also contributes to the decarbonization of the economy and the transition to a new energy structure in Belarus.

As part of this project, the Russian Company ENERGAS, under a contract with Siemens Energy AB, supplies gas treatment and fuel supply equipment – gas receiving stations (GRSs).

Four ENERGAS GRSs (one for each peak-standby GTPP) will be installed on supply pipelines for filtration, flow measurement (commercial metering) and heating of fuel gas entering the turbines of power generating units. The capacity of process units is from 29,210 to 87,506 m3 / h.



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Minsk CHPP-5 (branch of RUE Minskenergo) is the youngest power plant in the Belarusian power grid. Initially, the plant was intended as a nuclear power plant; however, after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, construction was stopped. Afterwards, the facility was taken out of preservation and completed as a conventional combined heat and power plant.

In 1999, a steam-power power unit (station No. 1) with an electric capacity of 330 MW was put into operation, and in 2012, a combined-cycle power unit (station No. 2) with a capacity of 399.6 MW.

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