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Primorye Electrical Lines Company together with a French Company NEXANS announced plans to lay an underwater high voltage electrical cable under Amur Bay in Vladivostok to increase the supply of electricity to the city’s residential district located on a peninsular territory.

The pioneer project is supposed to provide electricity to Shkota Peninsula hosting Egersheld’s residential district of Vladivostok. “It is impossible to lay a ground electricity cable to this residential territory since it is densely populated. The company has decided to lay an underwater cable,” a press statement from Primorye Electrical Lines Company reported.

The work will be performed in accordance with the investment agreement to modernize Primorye’s energy system signed between the Russian energy monopoly ‘Unified Energy Systems of Russia’ headed by Anatoly Chubais and Primorye’s regional administration.

It is planned to allocate 6 billion rubles ($250 million) on the modernization which will include reconstruction projects for the Artyomovsky heat and electricity generating plant and the modernization of a similar plant in Vladivostok. The project aims to provide the Primorye region with an additional 120 MW of electricity. Primorye Electrical Lines Company will also receive funds for the replacement of worn out electricity lines and exhausted equipment.

The investment program also foresees perspectives for construction of a heat and electricity generating plant in Ussurisk, the first unit to be put into operation in 2012.

Reconstruction of Partizansky hydro electric plant is included in the renovation plan too. New electrical lines connecting towns of Chuguyevka, Nakhodka and Spassk-Dalny with Vladivostok are planned to be built by 2011.