Kashira State Regional Electric Power Plant

Kashira State Regional Electric Power Plant

 

(full name, G. M. Krzhizhanovskii Kashira State Regional Electric Power Plant), one of the first Soviet regional steam power plants to be built in accordance with the plan of GOELRO (State Commission for the Electrification of Russia). It is located in Kashira, Moscow Oblast, and is a part of the Mosenergo system. The construction of the plant, to which V. I. Lenin attached great importance, was begun in April 1919.

The first plant, with two turbine units of 6 megawatts (MW) each, was put into service in 1922. Subsequently the plant was repeatedly enlarged. By 1932 its capacity of 186 MW made it the largest steam power plant in the USSR. After the addition of a number of units, including three having a power of 300 MW each in 1967–68, the rated capacity of the plant reached 1, 166 MW. Provision has been made for the installation of another three units of 300 MW each.

The plant operates on two types of fuel: the 300–MW powerunits use coal from the Donbas and seasonal surpluses of naturalgas; the other units use coal from the Moscow Area Coal Basin.The plant was awarded the Order of Lenin (1939) and the Orderof the Red Banner of Labor (1945).