On the State of Power Engineering in Russia: Opportunities and Ways of Innovative Development

The article provides a current analysis of the state of the power engineering market in Russia, including an analysis of trends in the market for turbines and turbine equipment, the main external and internal factors affecting the production of turbine equipment. Particularly highlighted are: a technologically outdated fleet of domestically produced turbines, the fact that high-power turbines have been supplied exclusively by foreign companies for the last 30 years, sanctions on the import of certain spare parts for turbines and turbine equipment into Russia. It is concluded that at present the Russian power engineering industry is not technologically independent, in particular, for the creation of combined cycle plants. The directions of innovative development of the domestic power engineering industry are identified, which, according to the authors, in the conditions of limited financial resources and the emerging political and economic situation, should be attributed to priority areas. A proposal was made on the need to expand the initiative of the Government of the Russian Federation for the development of design documentation and the production of import-substituting components, the development of innovations in this area, as well as the coordination of their sales.