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UC RUSAL plans to speed up new Siberian hydro dam

Thursday, Aug 20, 2009
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* RUSAL, RusHydro to accelerate Boguchany project * Repairs to damaged dam could take 4-5 years - RUSAL CEO MOSCOW, Aug 19 (Reuters) - UC RUSAL aims to speed up construction of a new Siberian utility to compensate for lost energy supplies to its aluminium smelters as a result of a disaster at another hydroelectric dam, the company's owner said. Twelve people were killed and scores were missing, presumed dead, after a turbine room flooded on Monday at the Sayano-Shushenskaya power station, the main supplier of energy to two of United Company RUSAL's Siberian plants. "We understand that repairs after the disaster could take four to five years," Oleg Deripaska, UC RUSAL's majority owner and chief executive, said in a statement after visiting the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam. "We, together with RusHydro, will spare no effort in accelerating commissioning of the Boguchany hydroelectric power station, which will permit us partially to restore the energy balance disrupted by the disaster," Deripaska said. Energy giant RusHydro, which owns Sayano-Shushenskaya, is building the Boguchany hydroelectric power station together with UC RUSAL. The plant was initially meant to supply power to two new smelters the aluminium firm plans to build in the region. UC RUSAL, the world's largest aluminium producer, has reorganised energy supplies to its most affected plants and is also in talks with RusHydro and the Energy Ministry on how best to organise long-term supplies. UC RUSAL's director for strategy and corporate development, Artyom Volynets, said on Tuesday the company could potentially lose at least 500,000 tonnes of aluminium production as a result of the disaster. UC RUSAL's Sayanogorsk and Khakassia aluminium smelters, with joint annual capacity of 832,000 tonnes, consumed more than 70 percent of the energy produced by the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam before the disaster, the company said in Wednesday's statement. "The decisions to be taken by the energy sector in order to guarantee uninterrupted supplies to the plants are important to RUSAL for it to react swiftly and flexibly to the developments," Deripaska said. Analysts said on Tuesday that a potential drop in Russian aluminium production should help the global industry by reducing high inventories. (Reporting by Aleksandras Budrys, editing by Robin Paxton)

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