Severstal confirms its goal to reduce greenhouse gases

PJSC Severstal has developed an energy efficiency strategy that will largely ensure the achievement of the company's goal of reducing the company's greenhouse gases by 3% by 2023.

According to Severstal CEO Alexander Shevelev, with the company's goal to reduce the intensity of greenhouse gas emissions by 3% by 2023 compared to the level of 2020, most of the goal has already been confirmed by the investment program. In particular, the energy efficiency strategy of CherMK will provide more than 50% of the goals.

“At CherMK, a strategy has been developed that is capable of providing new units not at the expense of purchased electricity, but at its own generation and optimization of consumption. In this case, the task will be solved with the observance of the environmental component, ”emphasizes Alexander Shevelev.

In the list of measures designed to increase the share of its own electricity, those that have already been included in the company's investment plan and are in varying degrees of implementation. Among the most significant for CherMK are technical re-equipment with modernization of turbine generator No. 7 and construction of boiler unit No. 11; modernization of GUBT-25 with replacement of the turbine and installation of GUBT behind the new blast furnace No. 3. There are four more major projects in the planning stage: modernization of turbine units TG-6 and TG-3 at CHPP-PVS, turbine units TG-1 and TG-2 at CHPP -EVS-2.

Thus, CherMK by 2023 intends to approach the target of 95% of its own production of the total demand. At the end of 2020, it amounted to 80.9%, in 2019 - 78%.

A number of measures are also aimed at achieving this goal, which optimize the consumption of electricity, in particular, in the pumping and compressor facilities of CherMK.

The above projects are included in the large program of re-equipment of CherMK's energy facilities. At the same time, the annual power generation will grow to 5,486 million kW due to the utilization of industrial gases - coke oven and blast furnace, since the operation of new generation sources is planned to be ensured by utilization of secondary energy resources.