Volga Hydroelectric Station

Coordinates: 48°49′34″N 44°40′19″E / 48.82611°N 44.67194°E / 48.82611; 44.67194
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Volga Hydroelectric Power Station
HVDC Volgograd-Donbass
on dam
hydroelectric power plants were among the Great Construction Projects of Communism
. Stalingrad/Volgograd Hydroelectric Station was one of them.

The Volga Hydroelectric Station or Volga GES (

Volga River flows into the Caspian Sea. It was the largest powerstation in the world between 1960 and 1963.[5] Today, it is operated by the electricity company RusHydro
.

History

Built as part of a massive postwar effort known as the

Stalingrad (modern Volgograd
) with a minimum storage capacity of 1.7 million kWh.

Ten thousand youths from the

Leningrad
. In total more than 1,500 individual plants and dozens of research institutes sent equipment and specialists.

The first powerhouse came online on 22 December 1958, and the plant was declared complete on 10 September 1961. Technologically the station broke much new ground. In 1959 a new Moscow-Stalingrad 500

experimental 800 kV DC line, Donbas
to Volgograd, was successfully tested and later became operational. During the 1960s and 1970s several new types of electrotechnical and hydromechanical machines were tested for future Siberian and foreign stations.

Technical details

Today the station is the largest in Europe. It consists of a 725-metre long, 44-metre high concrete dam that crosses the Volga river. Supporting it is a 3250-metre-long landfilled dam with a maximum height of 47 metres. The station also offers railway and road crossings of the Volga.

The present power rating of the station is 2,734

MW and annual energy output of ~12 billion kilowatt hours. There are a total of 22 generators. One generator produces 115 MW, 16 produce 125.5 MW each, and five produce 120 MW each. There is an additional 11 MW unit.[6]

The 4.9 kilometer dam forms the

Volgograd reservoir
. At present the station is managed by OAO Volzhskaya GES that is owned by OAO GidroOGK, a daughter company of the state organisation RAO AES Rossii.

The generators of the power plant are connected to the

harmonic filters
.

Economic value

The new plant played a decisive role in the development of the Lower Volga region and the Donbass, as well as uniting the large energetic system of the Central, Volga, and Southern economic regions. The new dam also allowed for the Volga to become navigable, allowing for a path from

West Kazakhstan Province
.

The power generated by the station is used primarily by the city of

HVDC Volgograd-Donbass
.

Ecology

One of the most negative results that the dam caused was that it destroyed the traditional path of Caspian fish migration to their breeding grounds.

beluga sturgeon, crucial to the Black Caviar
industry. The fishery canal turned out to be inefficient, and from 1962 to 1967 the annual production rate was 15 percent of that before the dam. The other major effect of the dam is that it formed one of the largest reservoirs, which amounts for a behemoth volume 31.5 cubic kilometres of water and stretches 540 km long, and up to 17 km wide with a massive 3,117 square kilometre surface area. As a result, numerous settlements and fertile lands were lost.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Волжская ГЭС увеличила установленную мощность в результате модернизации оборудования".
  2. ^ "Общие сведения". Archived from the original on 25 March 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  3. ^ "На крупнейшей ГЭС Европы начата модернизация очередного гидроагрегата".
  4. ^ "2015".
  5. ^ "Проектирование, строительство и эксплуатация ГЭС". Archived from the original on 4 July 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Волжская ГЭС увеличила установленную мощность в результате модернизации оборудования".
  7. ^ http://kislorod.life/question_answer/pyat_mifov_volzhsko_kamskogo_kaskada_ges/ Five myths of the Volga-Kama cascade of hydropower plants (RU)

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