
Power Bridge planned for Crimea

However, as confirmed by the Siemens spokesperson, the turbines are planned for a power station to be built near the coastal town of Taman in the Krasnodar region, which is only 20 km from the Crimean port of Kerch. The Moscow newspaper “Kommersant” reported in January that the [Russian] Energy Ministry is planning a power station near Taman with an output of 660 megawatts. Its main purposes are to secure power supply for the still to be constructed port of Taman – but primarily power for Crimea, to be transported through a “power bridge” on the sea floor of the Kerch Strait. Power transmission at a strength of 500 kilovolts is being considered in order to improve Crimea’s electricity supply, energy minister Alexander Novak told the news agency Itar-Tass last year. The required generators were to be installed on the Taman peninsula. A planned 600-megawatt power station near Novorossiysk is also intended to supply Crimea.Unfortunately its own profits are more important to [Siemens] than the territorial integrity of Ukraine, according to Dzhemilev.