OREANDA-NEWS. February 01, 2010. A gas-turbine power plant will become a major power supply facility in the rapidly growing Avaza national tourism zone. The station will supply electric power to dozens of comfortable hotels and cottages, numerous entertainment centres and parks, large sporting complexes and hundreds of other facilities located in the seaside pearl on the Turkmen coast of the Caspian Sea.

The assemblage of a step down autonomous gas-distributing station is under completion in the eastern part of the Avaza national tourism zone where the foreign company is building a combined cycle power plant. The station will supply natural gas that is used as fuel for producing electric power to the gas-turbine units of the power station.

The specialists of the Turkmengaz State Concern are engaged in building the 65-kilometre gas outlet for the Avaza power station. Gas will be transported via the pipeline under high pressure from the existing compressor stations of the gas main.

The main machine assembly and construction works have been completed at the step down autonomous gas-distributing station. Gas pipelines and other supply lines are being built from the power-generating units to the gas-distributing station.

In accordance with the international tender the Turkmenenergo Corporation and Turkmenenergogurlusyk Concern of the Ministry of Energy and Industry of Turkmenistan signed the additional contracts with the foreign companies for supplies of materials and machinery for construction of other power supply facilities in Avaza.

Electric power produced by the gas turbine power plant will be supplied via the high-voltage lines to three substations located nearby the tourism zone. There will be 12 transformer substations which will ensure reliable and uninterrupted power supply to all facilities in Avaza. The high-voltage lines will connect the network under construction with the Turkmenbashi thermal power station that will guarantee stable operation of the power supply network of the maritime region.

The step down autonomous gas-distributing station will be connected to the gas turbine units of the power plant simultaneously with putting the first power generating unit into operation by Flag Day this February.