The whole deal with the compressors made by Siemens or otherwise is kind of overblown to be honest.
Russia has a pretty large gas turbine industry, they are one of the few countries which makes gas turbines for both military and civilian transport aircraft, they have multiple projects working on large turbines which would be suitable, and are in advanced stage of development, with some just entering service. For example the UEC Saturn GTD-110M gas turbine is already in limited production. Russia has achieved 100% localization on licensed production of the GE 6FA gas turbine with 82 MW power at Russian Gas Turbines. Power Machines is working on the GTE-170 and GTE-65 gas turbines which should enter production over the next two years. Power Machines used to assemble Siemens gas turbines in Russia, and Russian Gas Turbines used to assemble GE gas turbines. If they wanted to, they could likely reverse engineer and make parts for gas turbines in service if this was critical. After the sanctions on Crimea in 2014, Russia chose to either license (in the case of GE) or design their own (in the case of Siemens) gas turbines.
I am fairly certain that Russia will surpass the issues with civilian and industrial turbine engines over the next 5 years. The programs have been ongoing since 2014. The naval gas turbines were the top priority at UEC Saturn and are already in production for example. So Russia now produces the M90FR marine gas turbine with 20 MW power when prior to this they imported all marine gas turbines from Ukraine. They are already being tested on the Admiral Golovko after passing all trials and entering serial production. UEC Saturn also put the GTD-110M gas turbine with 118 MW power into production recently like I said.
All the gas turbines used in Power of Siberia are either of GE 6FA type or derivatives of the PS-90 aero gas turbine. So that will not be affected by sanctions. And if the European supplied gas turbines which feed gas into the gas system which goes into Europe fail, well, why should Russia care really. They basically owned themselves.
The situation with diesel engines or electric powerplants is way more problematic.
Russia has a pretty large gas turbine industry, they are one of the few countries which makes gas turbines for both military and civilian transport aircraft, they have multiple projects working on large turbines which would be suitable, and are in advanced stage of development, with some just entering service. For example the UEC Saturn GTD-110M gas turbine is already in limited production. Russia has achieved 100% localization on licensed production of the GE 6FA gas turbine with 82 MW power at Russian Gas Turbines. Power Machines is working on the GTE-170 and GTE-65 gas turbines which should enter production over the next two years. Power Machines used to assemble Siemens gas turbines in Russia, and Russian Gas Turbines used to assemble GE gas turbines. If they wanted to, they could likely reverse engineer and make parts for gas turbines in service if this was critical. After the sanctions on Crimea in 2014, Russia chose to either license (in the case of GE) or design their own (in the case of Siemens) gas turbines.
I am fairly certain that Russia will surpass the issues with civilian and industrial turbine engines over the next 5 years. The programs have been ongoing since 2014. The naval gas turbines were the top priority at UEC Saturn and are already in production for example. So Russia now produces the M90FR marine gas turbine with 20 MW power when prior to this they imported all marine gas turbines from Ukraine. They are already being tested on the Admiral Golovko after passing all trials and entering serial production. UEC Saturn also put the GTD-110M gas turbine with 118 MW power into production recently like I said.
All the gas turbines used in Power of Siberia are either of GE 6FA type or derivatives of the PS-90 aero gas turbine. So that will not be affected by sanctions. And if the European supplied gas turbines which feed gas into the gas system which goes into Europe fail, well, why should Russia care really. They basically owned themselves.
The situation with diesel engines or electric powerplants is way more problematic.
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