Novomoskovskaya GRES

The construction of the power plant is connected with the plans for the construction of a large chemical plant for the production of nitrogen fertilizers by NPO Azot in the vicinity of the present Novomoskovsk. It was also supposed to open new mines, build ceramic and other plants. To provide them with electricity, a powerful power station was needed - Bobrikovskaya GRES .

In 1930, after three years of preparatory work, the construction of the power plant under the GOELRO plan began , but in the fall of the year it was mothballed, and all forces were thrown at the construction of the chemical plant, as well as the Lyubovskaya and Shatovskaya dams. In mid-April 1931, the main works on the Lyubovskaya dam were completed, and on June 20, traffic was started on the railway bridge across the Lyubovskoye reservoir. The construction of the power plant was resumed after conservation only in the spring of 1933. A large-circulation newspaper “Over 100 thousand kilowatts” began to appear, reflecting the current work of the state district power station and the further course of construction.

The first test of the power plant under load occurred on August 24, 1934. The launch of the first 50 MW turbogenerator was led by the station’s director, Yakov Davidovich Vainblat. In connection with the renaming of the town of Bobriki to Stalinogorsk, the station also received a new name - Stalinogorsk TPP .

On January 23, 1935, the second turbogenerator took over the load and the capacity of the power plant reached 100 MW. In March 1940, boiler No. 10 and turbine generator No. 6 were commissioned. The station reached a design capacity of 350 MW and became the most powerful thermal station in the USSR and Europe .

During World War II , the station’s equipment was evacuated to the Urals, and the station itself, on November 21, 1941 , was detonated. On November 25, the city ​​of Stalinogorsk was occupied by German troops. However, the successful counteroffensive of the Soviet troops near Moscow forced the Wehrmacht to leave Stalinogorsk, and already on December 12 , after 17 days of occupation, the city was liberated. The priorities of the Soviet government changed, and it became important that the Stalinogorsk GRES be restored in the shortest possible time, since the regions and industry of Tula , Moscow and other major cities of the central region were in great need of it.

Great importance was given to staff motivation. On June 21, 1942, the first issue of the large-circulation newspaper Energetik was released.

On October 26, 1942, the rebirth of the Stalinogorsk GRES was celebrated when turbine generator No. 6 was put into operation . A vocational school was established at the station to recruit staff, which was later transformed into vocational school . In November 1946, a new 100 MW hydrogen-cooled turbine generator was launched at the station - the most advanced at that time in the USSR.

On November 26, 1948, with the commissioning of the second one-thousandth turbogenerator, the Stalinogorsk SDPP exceeded the pre-war capacity and again became the largest thermal power plant in the USSR.

The post-war years were marked by rapid progress in the use of integrated mechanization and automation, and work continued on the reconstruction of a state district power station and an increase in capacity. This was required by the expansion of production at the chemical plant. In the early 1960s, Novomoskovskaya TPP was converted to natural gas.

In the 1970s, at the Novomoskovsk branch of the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology. DI Mendeleev opened new specialties "Power supply of industrial enterprises, cities and agriculture", "Industrial heat engineering", etc. The first edition of 1980 was almost completely distributed to the state district power station.

The last decade of the 20th century took place under conditions of increasing moral and physical deterioration of equipment. The reconstruction project prepared in 1986 was not implemented due to the crisis that befell Russia in the 1990s. Many enterprises and institutions did not pay for electricity, so the GRES actually lent them and helped them to stay afloat ^[3] .

By 2003, only 9 of 15 boilers remained at the station, of which three were in conservation. The production of electric energy has decreased, and some of the personnel have been reduced. Under these conditions, the task of survival came to the fore - to keep the plant team and keep the power plant in working condition.

On December 11, 2003, Novomoskovskaya TPP was established on the basis of Novomoskovskaya TPP, a branch of OJSC Tulenergo. In 2005, the level of electricity consumption for the first time reached the level of 1991, and in 2006 - an increase to the level of 2005 was 155% ^[3] .

On August 31, 2007, the RAO UES Board of Directors approved the reorganization of Quadra OJSC by merging Novomoskovskaya GRES OJSC with the aim of increasing the manageability, transparency and investment attractiveness of Quadra company. ^[4] On June 30, 2008, the reorganization was completed. ^[five]

On February 27, 2008, Kvadra started the construction of a combined-cycle plant with a capacity of 240 MW at Novomoskovskaya GRES, as a result of which the installed capacity of the plant will increase by almost 2 times to 501 MW, and the electricity supply will increase by more than 4 times. The project involved the construction of a CCGT with two General Electric gas turbine units LMS100. The project cost was estimated at 7.7 billion rubles. The implementation period is 2008–2010. ^[6]

In 2010, it was decided to reduce the capacity of the combined cycle gas unit under construction to 190 MW. A monoblock scheme using a General Electric gas turbine with a capacity of 126 MW, a waste heat boiler produced by OJSC Atomenergomash and a steam turbine manufactured by Siemens with a capacity of 62 MW was adopted for installation. The general contractor is ZAO Energokaskad , the general designer of OAO Zarubezhenergoproekt .

The launch of the block was originally scheduled for 2011, but was repeatedly postponed and, as a result, took place on May 29, 2013 ^[7] .

In June 2017, after 50 years of work, the company decided to decommission the turbine unit number 1 .

• List of thermal power plants in Russia (with an installed capacity of more than 25 MW)

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• Sedugin V.I. Novomoskovskaya GRES: history essay. - Novomoskovsk, 1993. - 119 p.
• Sedugin V.I. Novomoskovsk - Essay history . - Tula, 2010. - 186 p.

• Novomoskovskaya GRES.
• The site of the company "Quadra".
• The beginning of the construction of PGU-240 MW at Novomoskovskaya TPP. (inaccessible link)