Norwegian firm Troms Kraft to build wind power plant on Solovetsky Islands of the white sea

The Norwegian energy company Troms Kraft plans to build a wind power plant on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. The company is developing an ecologically clean energy project for the Solovetsky Islands under the cooperation agreement between Russia’s Arkhangelsk region and Norway’s province of Tromse signed in 2002. “The estimated capacities of the power units should be enough to meet the electricity needs of the population and the burgeoning tourist industry on the Solovetsky Islands,” an official at the Arkhangelsk region’s committee on international ties and tourism told Itar-Tass on Monday. Existing electricity and heat supplying systems on the islands need modernisation. About 900 people constantly live on the islands. However in summertime, several dozen thousand tourists and pilgrims visit the islands. Norway has been helping with the restoration of cultural monuments and the development of tourist infrastructure on the islands for more than 10 years.