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Chavanga – Kola Pennisula

Current status, energy mix, organizations, suppliers, equipment, controls, reported specifications, and project updates—with source-level citations.

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations7
System facts19
Sources reviewed12
Evidence reviewed2026-07-20

Chavanga's village power station on the remote Tersky Coast is a wind-solar-diesel system commissioned in 2015. A Kola Science Centre technical monograph gives the Chavanga-specific configuration as 50 kW of wind, 32.4 kW of PV, and two 88 kW FG Wilson P110 diesels. The often-repeated 120 kW wind and 75 kW solar figures are totals across the Chavanga, Chapoma, and Tetrino program, not Chavanga alone. Public records show wind-equipment repairs in 2017-2018, diesel replacement work and local line repair through 2025, but no recent measured renewable share.

Research status
The Murmansk regional encyclopedia says the wind-solar-diesel station has operated since August 2015. Wind units were sent for repair in October 2017 and returned in November 2018. The Tersky District's 2025 program records diesel-power-plant replacement work in Chavanga as 100% complete by 31 December 2025, after a 2024 low-voltage line repair; it does not disclose replacement genset models or present operating performance.
Historical classification
Remote
Reported capacity
See component specifications
Coordinates
68.95852, 33.08266
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Project delivery

Who was involved in Chavanga – Kola Pennisula?

7 publicly identified organizations. Where a recovered source named a participant without explaining its work, the role remains explicitly unspecified.

Organization

Government of Murmansk Oblast

Regional government documenting the station and supporting the remote-settlement power program. [7][12]

Organization

Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Publisher of the technical monograph that separates equipment and capacities by village. [6]

Organization

Murmansk regional government

Regional program sponsor and funder [4]

Organization

President-Neva

Contractor associated with implementation of the Tersky Coast hybrid-generation program in the recovered and regional program record. [6][11]

Organization

President-Neva Energy Center

Design and equipment contractor for Chavanga, Tetrino, and Chapoma [5]

Organization

Tersky District Administration

Municipal authority administering recent electricity-infrastructure work, including Chavanga line repair and 2025 diesel-station replacement. [8]

Organization

Varzuga rural settlement administration

Municipal contracting authority [5]

System evidence

Energy mix, capacity, and specifications

Values can describe different project phases, generation sources, storage systems, or other components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

KW Solar
75 [1]
KW Wind
120 [1]
Archived Chavanga solar
75 kW [1]
Archived Chavanga wind
120 kW [1]
Three-village program
515 kW demand and 175 kW wind/solar across Chavanga, Tetrino, and Chapoma [4]
Chavanga wind capacity
50 kW: five ANTARIS turbines rated 10 kW each [6][10]
Chavanga solar capacity
32.4 kW: 120 modules rated 270 W each [6][10]
Original Chavanga diesel capacity
Two FG Wilson P110 generator sets rated 88 kW each, 176 kW total [6][10]
Three-village program totals, not Chavanga
Chavanga, Chapoma, and Tetrino together were reported at 120 kW wind and 75 kW solar, with projected annual savings of at least 231 tonnes of fuel; these values must not be assigned to Chavanga alone [11]
Separate 2008 telecom pilot
1.3 kW FORTIS PASSAT wind plus 0.88 kW PV for a public telephone power supply; this preceded and is separate from the 2015 village station [6]

Controls and hardware

Equipment and controller details

Manufacturer and model are shown only when a source names them. Generic descriptions are not converted into guessed product assignments.

01

Wind turbines

ANTARIS

Five 10 kW turbines, 50 kW total, installed for the 2015 Chavanga village hybrid station. [6][10]

02

PV modules

Model not publicly disclosed

120 crystalline modules rated 270 W each, 32.4 kW total; the reviewed technical record does not identify the manufacturer. [6]

03

Diesel gensets

FG Wilson — P110

Two original 88 kW units. A 2025 replacement is recorded, but the replacement make, model, and rating are not disclosed. [6][8]

04

Earlier telecom wind turbine

FORTIS — PASSAT

A separate 1.3 kW wind turbine used with 0.88 kW of PV for the 2008 public-telephone pilot. [6]

Technical record

Architecture, performance, and project updates

Concise technical facts, milestones, operating results, and later developments. Dated notes distinguish historical design claims from current evidence.

  • Commissioning

    Regional sources place operation from August 2015, while a later engineering presentation gives September 2015 commissioning. The difference likely reflects phased handover, so both dates remain labeled rather than silently collapsed. [7][10]

  • Wind repair

    The five wind units were sent for repair in October 2017 and returned to Chavanga on 1 November 2018. Local reporting also described restoration work on the wind-solar-diesel station in 2018. [10][9]

  • Diesel and network renewal

    The district program records a 4.275 million-ruble 0.4 kV line repair completed in 2024 and 6.501 million rubles of Chavanga diesel-station replacement work completed in 2025. Continued fuel deliveries confirm the system remains diesel-dependent. [8]

  • Service outcome

    The 2015 regional commissioning account said the Tersky Coast hybrid projects provided round-the-clock electricity to the previously constrained settlements. No recent reliability indices, annual generation, diesel savings, or renewable fraction were located for Chavanga specifically. [12][8]

  • Capacity correction

    Published program totals of 75 kW solar and 120 kW wind combine Chavanga, Chapoma, and Tetrino. The village-level Kola Science Centre table is the source for Chavanga's actual 32.4 kW solar and 50 kW wind configuration. [6][11]

Provenance

12 sources

Primary owner, government, university, supplier, and engineering sources are preferred. Archived references preserve claims whose original pages moved or disappeared.

  1. [1]
    Recovered Microgrid Projects record

    Internet Archive · Archived source · captured 2020-07-06

  2. [2]
    which is involved in similar projects in the regional village of Pyalitsa

    bellona.org · Archived source · captured 2020-07-06

  3. [3]
    Read More

    bellona.org · Archived source · captured 2020-07-06

  4. [4]
    Renewables to Power Up Remote Russian Villages

    UN Climate Change · Secondary research

  5. [5]
  6. [6]
    Renewable Energy in the Murmansk Region: Experience and Prospects

    Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences · Primary source

  7. [7]
    Chavanga

    Government of Murmansk Oblast · Primary source

  8. [8]
  9. [9]
  10. [10]
    Renewable-diesel complexes in remote Murmansk settlements

    PPT Online presentation archive · Archived source

  11. [11]
    Economic security and renewable-energy projects in remote Murmansk settlements

    Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences · Primary source

  12. [12]
    Governor Marina Kovtun visited the Tersky Coast

    TV21 Murmansk · Secondary research

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