After meeting with Tatarstan Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov, Hans-Juergen Wio said the republic's heat and electricity supplier Tatenergo had made specific proposals to Siemens on cooperation in projects to expand Kazan Thermal Power Plant-3, and to reconstruct the Zainsk District Power Plant and substations of the network company.
Wio said these were major projects on the construction of a reliable and complete base for modernizing the power sector in Tatarstan as a whole.
The Siemens Russia vice-president said the three projects were interlinked, and that the next step in implementing them would be to form task forces to analyze all issues, to ensure that they can be carried out on schedule in 2008.
He added that his company would present Tatenergo with documents on the projects and would train company specialists at centers in Germany.
Tatenergo General Director Ilshat Fardiyev said feasibility studies on the project would be prepared by the end of the year, after which a tender, in which Siemens intends to participate, would be announced for the delivery of equipment.
Siemens has been rapidly expanding its involvement in Russian industry this year.
In July, Siemens received a $100-mln contract to provide a new information system for the System Operator Central Control Directorate, a subsidiary of Russian electricity monopoly Unified Energy System.
In May, Russian Railways signed a 600-million-euro ($765-million) deal with the German company on supplies and maintenance of eight high-speed trains.
Siemens gained a blocking stake in Russia's biggest engineering company Siloviye Mashiny (Power Machines) at the beginning of the year.
