Russia: General Scheme for the placement of electric power facilities to 2042 (Government Order No. 4153-r, 2024)

Russia's General Scheme for the placement of power facilities to 2042, approved by Government Order No. 4153-r of 30 December 2024, lists planned nuclear plants including small plants at Norilsk, Ust-Kuyga (Yakutia) and in Chukotka, the Baimsky floating power units and the BREST-OD-300 unit at Seversk. Several small-plant entries depend on consumer agreements. It is a planning document, not a construction decision or licence.

Category: Laws, rules and executive directives
Status: In effect
Instrument: executive order · Распоряжение Правительства Российской Федерации от 30 декабря 2024 г. № 4153-р (Генеральная схема размещения объектов электроэнергетики до 2042 года)
Issued by: Government of the Russian Federation
Jurisdiction: Russia
Affects: State programme administration, Siting
Effective date: Not recorded
Expiry or completion: None recorded
Operative text: Government of Russia order No. 4153-r: General Scheme for the placement of electric power facilities to 2042 (Order No. 4153-r with the approved General Scheme (government PDF))
Record reviewed · next review: 2026-10-18 · 2027-04-18 (dates our review of this record; not a statement of the measure's present legal effect)

Legal and geographic scope

Government order approving the General Scheme, a long-term planning document for the power sector developed under the 2022 rules on long-term power-sector planning documents. It directs the Ministry of Energy to submit, within six months, changes to the federal territorial planning scheme for energy, and repeals the 2017, 2021 and 2022 orders. The scheme's tables of nuclear plants planned for construction list, among others, the Norilsk small nuclear plant (RITM-400 units, Norilsk), the Yakutsk small nuclear plant (RITM-200N units, Ust-Kuyga, Ust-Yansky ulus), the Chukotka small nuclear plant (Shelf-M, Iultinsky district), the Baimsky modernised floating power units (RITM-200S, Cape Nagloynyn, Pevek) and the BREST-OD-300 pilot demonstration unit at Seversk. Footnotes state that the Chukotka, Baimsky and Norilsk projects will be confirmed only after consumer agreements fixing consumption volumes and prices, or another supply arrangement, and that a second Yakutsk unit depends on such agreements.

Not approved or still pending

Inclusion in the scheme is planning, not a construction decision, licence or funding; listed years are planned. The Chukotka small plant (Shelf-M, Iultinsky district) is not linked to a project record because the scheme does not name the deposit it would serve. The state programme for the nuclear industry was not reviewed.

Dated lifecycle

30 Dec 2024 · actual · day · Issued (Government of Russia order No. 4153-r: General Scheme for the placement of electric power facilities to 2042)

Projects or designs named by the source

Norilsk land small nuclear plant (RITM-400) — The General Scheme lists the Norilsk small nuclear plant (Krasnoyarsk Krai, Norilsk) with RITM-400 units among planned nuclear plants, subject to consumer agreements.
Yakutia land-based RITM-200N (Ust-Kuyga) — The General Scheme lists the Yakutsk small nuclear plant at Ust-Kuyga (Ust-Yansky ulus) with RITM-200N units among planned nuclear plants.
Baim / Cape Nagloynyn floating PEB-106 (RITM-200S) — The General Scheme lists the Baimsky modernised floating power units (RITM-200S) at Cape Nagloynyn, Pevek urban district, subject to consumer agreements.
BREST-OD-300 Seversk — The General Scheme lists the pilot demonstration unit at Seversk (Tomsk Oblast) with BREST-OD-300 among planned nuclear units.

Sources

Government of Russia order No. 4153-r: General Scheme for the placement of electric power facilities to 2042 (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-02)