Should we sell the nuclear power ship? The opinion of the top management of Uni-President Electric Power is: It’s just what I want!

Maoxiong’s power supply system also inherited most of Su Xiong’s family fortune. The original power supply companies were all state-owned.

With the hurricane of privatization, electric power companies simultaneously implemented shareholding reforms.

At the national level, Maoxiong Uni-President Electric Power Co., Ltd. was established, with 51% of the shares under government control, maintaining its state-owned nature.

Unified Power will acquire 100% control of hydropower stations with a capacity of more than 300 MW and thermal power plants with a capacity of more than 1,000 MW, and reorganize 72 other local power and electrical companies into electric power joint-stock companies.

Uni-President Electric Power holds 49% of the equity of local electric power companies, and sells no less than 20% of the shares to individuals. The common practice is to sell them to employees of the power system. After the share reform, the shares are quickly concentrated in the hands of major shareholders.

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Maoxiong Unified Electric Power Co., Ltd. currently has 440 power plants operating on the grid, with a total installed capacity of 197 GW, an annual power generation of 787 TW, and a total length of transmission lines of 3.018 million kilometers. (KW, MW, GW, TW

Watt is the unit of electric capacity, the rate is 1000)

Uni-President Electric Power is a state-owned enterprise in terms of shares, but in recent years it has been pursuing more benefits for shareholders.

Although Maoxiong has established a power supply system called "unification", the electricity market in various places is not unified. The reason is that its territory is vast, its natural conditions vary greatly, and its economic and social development levels are very uneven.

In principle, the price of electricity sold by local electric power companies to users is determined by the local government's economic committee, but local economic committees set prices more casually and do not consider cost accounting.

Power companies have different costs due to different power sources, grid structures, fuel supplies and load compositions. Unified electricity prices will cause some companies to lose money or even close down.

In recent years, Maoxiong Electric Power Industry has accumulated more and more problems.

First, there is a serious lack of investment. Normal equipment maintenance cannot be carried out, let alone technical transformation and new projects. The aging of the main equipment has almost reached the level of endangering the safety of the power grid. According to the data of Uni-President Electric Power, to the present, their equipment

The aging rate has exceeded 45%.

Second, the technical indicators of electric energy production have seriously deteriorated. The power grid loss rate has reached 23%, and the profit rate of the power industry has dropped from 25% in 1993 to 11% in 1999.

Third, financial indicators continue to deteriorate. A large number of users have accumulated arrears in electricity bills reaching 125 billion rubles, and some users have used products to pay off their debts. These products are not easy to realize.

Fourth, the state has not effectively managed state-owned assets in the power industry, the controllability of power system functions has been reduced, dispatch operations are uneconomical and unreasonable, and there is a lack of corresponding software and hardware...

During this time, Pewkin's new government was brewing a reform.

The overall reform policy formulated by the Ministry of Fuel and Power in conjunction with Unified Electricity is: opening up the electricity market, introducing competition mechanisms, absorbing domestic and foreign private investment, and also divesting non-performing assets.

How to attract domestic and foreign private investment?

The Ministry of Fuel and Power actually has no bottom line in mind. Foreign investors in Unified Power are asking for divestment because the rate of return is too low. Where can they find foreign investors to join?

The divestment of non-performing assets includes the sale of the Lomonosov.

Uni-President Power's idea for this power bank is that it can be used as a floating platform for power generation. They even have the idea of ​​"using it if it can be used and throwing it away if it can't be used" because it is too wasteful to own, maintain and maintain this ship.

The assets of this power bank belong to Unified Power, and after filling with nuclear fuel, its management and operation belong to the nuclear power company of China Atomic Energy Corporation.

Maoxiong's nuclear power plant was nominally merged into Unified Power, and power generation and dispatch were owned by Unified Power. However, their operations were still the responsibility of the nuclear power company, so after its reactors were filled with nuclear fuel, they always needed someone to manage and maintain them, which required a

A fee.

In addition, the power bank is a ship after all, and the ship also needs technical personnel such as captains and sailors.

Corbett retired from the Far East Fleet and obtained the captaincy of the ship through connections. Later, he recruited a team of 200 people from the Far East Fleet veterans to be responsible for the daily management, maintenance and operation of the ship. This was another

It's a big expense.

And the biggest problem is Colbert. This guy is just a donkey. If you have any problem, you can discuss it. The old guy will never listen to the command. This situation is what the Chinese often say: listen to the instructions but not the propaganda.

This power bank was originally planned to be used in the Far East.

When Sakhalin's oil and gas development started, the long-term plan was quite attractive. The Lomonosov was ready to be loaded with nuclear fuel and sail to the Far East to meet the power needs of offshore oil and gas drilling and production platforms.

However, Sakhalin's oil and gas development has been met with much fanfare and little rain, and it has not been able to enter a state of in-depth development since it started.

Therefore, the power bank has been idle, and Uni-President Power has to pay a lot of money for it every year.

Let’s talk about the status of the electric power industry in the Far East.

The power system in the Far East is its own system and is not connected to the unified power grid in the west.

Instead, the local power systems of the three regions of Amur Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai and Primorye Krai are connected in parallel to form the Far Eastern United Electric Power Co., Ltd., which can cover Sakhalin, Jewish Autonomous Prefecture, South Yakutia and other nearby areas, forming the main power network in the Far East.

Power supply network.

In the four regions of North Yakutia, Magadan, Kamchatka, and Chukchi, because the construction and maintenance of power supply lines are too difficult, they can only build their own power plants to maintain independent operation.

Far East United Electric Power Company has 1 hydropower station and 11 thermal power plants.

The hydropower station is located in the Amur region with a total installed capacity of 1,300 megawatts.

Amur Region has three thermal power plants with a total installed capacity of 800 MW.

There are 5 thermal power plants in Khabarovsk Territory, among which Khabarov Thermal Power Plant No. 2 is jointly owned by Lovich, and Komsomolsk Thermal Power Plant No. 2 is wholly owned by the steel plant, but has been integrated into the unified power grid for operation. Khabarov Territory

There are 5 thermal power plants in the district with a total installed capacity of 940 MW.

Primorsky Krai has three thermal power plants with a total installed capacity of 860 MW.

Generally speaking, the power supply problem in the Far East is not big, and there is even enough power to supply power to Longjiang Province in China.

However, as mentioned earlier, most power plants were built early and operate with problems all year round, and cannot supply electricity at full capacity.

Moreover, in recent times, due to the aircraft factory and shipyard receiving new orders, the in-depth development of the Kubol gold mine, and the construction of the Far East oil and gas pipeline, not only the Komsomolsk Steel Plant is continuously expanding its production and capacity, but also the related

Enterprises also need to increase production and produce and process corresponding accessories for key projects.

As a result, there was an electricity shortage in the Far East.

Not long ago, the Far East Iron and Steel Plant put forward the need to increase power, and Uni-President Electric Power couldn't wait to send the Lomonosov over and handed it over to Far East United Electric Power Co., Ltd. for operation.

The conditions agreed between Far Eastern United Electric Power Co., Ltd. and the steel mills are that the steel mills only need to pay its operation and maintenance costs.

In a word: This power bank is left to your Far East Steel Plant. If you want to use it, you can afford it.

It is said that the maintenance cost of an aircraft carrier in Sam State is 100 million U.S. dollars, and the cost will be increased 10 times during wartime.

However, the Lomonosov does not need to sail at ordinary times, and the hull and mechanical equipment need to be maintained at a minimum.

The cost of a nuclear power plant lies in its construction cost. The maintenance cost of the reactor and power generation system is not high. The reactor of a nuclear power plant replaces the nuclear fuel once a year. The maintenance of the reactor only requires strengthening personnel protection.

The last big chunk falls on the salaries of more than 200 people.

The original salaries of those crew members were retired military personnel, and their salaries were not high even when they were in the army.

However, these people were Corbett's cronies. They were planning to trick the oil bosses of the Sakhalin oil and gas field, so the salaries and benefits of the nuclear power plant technicians were set very high. Calculating, the total annual salary of these people is

8 million dollars.

This is the biggest pain point of Uni-President Electric Power's eagerness to get rid of this burden.

Because Corbett had made many quarrels with the top management of Uni-President Electric Power, the crew members on the ship had been owed wages for eight months. If wages were not paid, he was planning to drive this big ship around major ports around the world.

Why go around in a circle?

Attracting people, traveling, sightseeing...

Although this ship is decorated to be a bit ugly, its prototype is an aircraft carrier after all.

Compared with the three small aircraft carriers that were bought by China and planned to be transformed into theme parks, this ship has two more attractions: first, it is nuclear-powered, and second, it can drive itself.

Do you want to control an aircraft carrier with the coolest retired soldier, the furry bear? Do you want to chop through the waves and break up icebergs in the Bering Sea? Do you want to watch white bears dancing in the North Pole?

Come, the Lomonosov is your faithful companion.

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After receiving feedback from the manager of Far East United Electric Power Company, Chubais, Chairman of Unified Power Company, was overjoyed.

Chubais, whose full name is Anatoly Chubais Borisjevich.

This man is also a big shot. He once served as chairman of the Mao Xiong Federal State-owned Assets Management Committee, first deputy prime minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, and concurrently served as finance minister.

He is a reform radical in Mao Xiong's government and a pioneer in the country's privatization campaign. Some even say that he created many financial oligarchs in Mao Xiong.

In June this year, the Pewkin government issued an arrest warrant to Mao Xiong's "seven oligarchs" to pursue their crimes of embezzlement of state assets, financial fraud, tax evasion, and illegal transfer of property.

Chubais was not included in the targets of attack because of his personal relationship with Pyuchin, but among the people, many people hoped that he would be humanely destroyed.

It is said that one time his brother went to a hospital in Mozambique for treatment. Hearing that he was Chubais' brother, he was kicked out by the doctor.

Back to the topic, I heard that Abra from the Far East wanted to buy this nuclear power ship. Chubais personally contacted the manager of the Far East United Power Company.

: “What price did they give?”

The manager replied: "$20 million."

Chubais almost jumped up: "I'm kidding, please do the math for them. The Lomonosov is not simple. It is an aircraft carrier-structured hull with four reactors installed.

We once calculated that it would cost at least $200 million to build an offshore floating island nuclear power plant with a displacement of 20,000 tons."

You tell them that if you want to get this big guy, you will need at least 150 million dollars."

The manager said: "I told you these things, but the other party has already learned about the maintenance costs of the ship from Colbert. Abra said with certainty, 20 million, fixed price, if you don't want to sell it, forget it.

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Soon after, Uni-President Electric Power announced that it would sell the Lomonosov to Polar Mining for $20 million.

Polar Mining released this news at the same time, and also announced: In order to alleviate the power shortage in the Far East, Polar Mining is preparing to invest 500 million U.S. dollars within two years to build two gas-fired thermal power plants and add 3,000 megawatts of installed capacity to alleviate the tight power supply in the Far East.
Chapter completed!