The head of Rostec announced the suspension of sawing construction of three garbage processing plants in the Moscow region and Kazan.
“Rostec” will freeze the construction of three garbage processing plants in the Moscow region and Kazan, reported Chemezov to Putin. The corporation will be forced to do this until better times, when “cheaper money” will appear, he added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Sergei Chemezov, CEO of the Rostec state corporation. They discussed the implementation of the state defense order, increase in the production of civilian products, as well as energy waste utilization.
Chemezov told the President that Rostec had to freeze the construction of three waste processing plants. He recalled that the construction of five facilities began in 2019: four enterprises in the Moscow region and one in Tatarstan. However, it was possible to hand over the first plant only in December 2024. Different factors affected the speed of construction work – first the covid, then sanctions, Chemezov said.
The delivery of the second incineration plant is scheduled for next year, the facility is 92% ready. The head of Rostec noted that, “of course, there is not enough money,” but the state corporation is negotiating with banks “to get some, maybe, to a certain extent, preferential loans.”
“The remaining three plants: two plants in the Moscow region, one in Kazan – we will have to freeze until better times, when there will be cheaper money or some help from the state, if possible, will appear,” he said.
Chemezov emphasized that Rostec did not receive funds from the budget to build incinerators – all the facilities were built mainly with loans, private investment and the state corporation’s own funds.
“The debt is owed to you, Sergei Viktorovich,” Putin said. “Unfortunately, yes. We built it, and today it is already working. Today, 100 million kilowatt-hours of green energy have already been generated and more than 200,000 tons of municipal waste has been destroyed – what used to be taken to landfills,” Chemezov replied.
RT-Invest, a Rostec subsidiary, is responsible for the construction of incinerators in the Moscow region and Kazan. It was assumed that they would incinerate 3.35 million tons of solid municipal waste per year with electricity generation, and their total capacity would be 355 MW. The volume of investment in the project is 185 billion rubles, and taking into account the construction of infrastructure for sorting and separate collection of waste – 200 billion rubles, the head of RT-Invest Andrey Shipelov told RBC in 2020.
These enterprises were supposed to work at the end of 2022. But in May 2021, Chemezov told Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin that the company would not be able to launch them on time. Then the launch of all five plants was postponed to 2023.