Likhachev called the priority tasks for storage plants

Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev called the commissioning of a plant in the Kaliningrad region and the loading of capacities in the Moscow region as priorities, answering the question about the construction of new storage sites. The answer came at the Russian Energy Week in a conversation with journalists.

Alexey Likhachev also expects that drives will be massively used next to generating capacities within a few months. He linked this forecast to the ability to reduce peak electricity consumption.

“Now, I think, a few months will pass and there will be a mass replication of drive systems next to generating capacities.” Because from the point of view of peak loads, of course, it is very effective, said Alexey Likhachev. According to him, there are points in the country where drives are able to remove the need for additional generation and fully cover demand due to smoothing the peak.

Where exactly the drives are able to give such an effect, he did not specify. Specific decisions on the use of systems, according to the head of the state corporation, should be made jointly with the network operator and the Ministry of Energy. Each of the two plants is designed for 18 million lithium-ion battery cells per year, or 4 GWh. After reaching full capacity, they will be able to cover a significant part of Russia’s demand for mobile and stationary drives.

The Kaliningrad Gigafactory was launched in December 2025, but the head of Rosatom called its commercial operation an upcoming step. The second gigafactory was commissioned on October 6 in New Moscow.