Thursday September 21, 2006

The Kremlin activates coal

peakoil.com -> kommersant.com :

The Russian presidential administration has developed a fuel strategy for Russian electricity. Kommersant has learned that it will not emphasize growing gas supplies, of which, experts say, there is already a 30-percent deficit, but coal. Thus, Russian authorities will convert domestic consumers to coal and heating oil, which will unavoidably lead to higher electricity prices, but guarantee that Gazprom meets its export plans.

Gas consumption is rising faster than foreseen by the state gas monopoly. It was predicted to rise by 1% this year, but the real figure is 4%. The domestic shortage of gas will increase. Industry analysts say that the new strategy has been developed with the interests of Gazprom, not Russian consumers, in mind. Troika Dialog analyst Valery Nesterov said that current conditions make it politically and economically more expedient to export natural gas than to supply to Russian consumers.

- First they were talking about nuclear and now they are talking about coal. Only two alternative choices for large scale, base-load electrical power.

See also :

1. Nuclear power must displace natural gas share - Russia
2. Russia plans atomic energy expansion

(2006-09-21 08:34:12 SGT) [Energy] Permalink

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