RUSAL CEO takes part in emergency meeting of the RF ministry of energy on the situation at Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP

Oleg Deripaska, CEO of RUSAL, has taken part in a meeting held by the Minister of Energy Sergey Shmatko. The meeting was also attended by the Minister for Emergency Situation Sergey Shoygu and Chairman of the Board of Directors of RusHydro Vyacheslav Sinyugin. 

The meeting was held to discuss the breakdown at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydro Power Plant and its consequences for the energy supply in the Siberian region, where the most energy consuming facilities, including RUSAL’s aluminium smelters, are located. Meeting participants discussed different scenarios of using backup capacities for uninterrupted supply of energy to RUSAL’s facilities.  One of the issues discussed was a possibility to reduce the output at RUSAL’s smelters to create additional reserve of energy required for stable functioning of the region on the eve of the autumn-winter season when the load on the energy system increases.

For records, at 4:15 am Moscow time , as a result of a powerful shock (which has preliminarily been labeled as a hydro-shock) -- the cause of which is still under investigation -- the second turbine at the HPP was destroyed, the seventh and ninth turbines suffered extensive damage, and a portion of the turbine room was damaged as well.