Energy industry of the Crimea
In the past, the energy industry in Crimea was heavily dependent on supplies from mainland Ukraine . In 2015, Crimea produced only around 30 percent of its electricity needs itself.
The self-sufficiency rate for natural gas is 66.1%. The Chernomorneftegaz company exploits several oil and gas reserves.
The Crimea also has significant potential for renewable energy sources . From 2010 to 2012 four photovoltaic power plants with a total capacity of 227.5 MW were built. In 1931, the first large wind turbine in the USSR was built in the Crimea , which was destroyed during the war in 1942.
After bomb attacks on electricity pylons in Ukraine on November 22, 2015, which led to large-scale power outages in Crimea, the question of a self-sufficient energy supply became topical.
At the beginning of December 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin put a new submarine cable into operation between the Russian Taman peninsula and Crimea. In addition to the submarine connection, 100 kilometers of overhead lines were also built for the supply line . In May 2016, the fourth and last stage of the so-called “energy bridge” between Crimea at the Kafa substation and the Russian mainland at the Taman substation in the Krasnodar region went into operation. The energy bridge can take over a total of 800 MW of the peak demand in Crimea, which is 1350 MW. The energy is supplied from the Rostov nuclear power plant , which is now the main energy supplier on the peninsula. In a second expansion stage, the capacity of the energy bridge is to be expanded to 1270 MW. In addition to the mainland connection of 800 MW, the energy supply of the Crimea will also be covered by two thermal power plants in Sevastopol and Simferopol with a total of 960 MW.
The Crimea nuclear power plant was built until 1988, but it was never completed.
The power supply is currently based on several combined cycle and gas turbine power plants, as well as the Rostow nuclear power plant in the Russian Oblast of Rostov on the Russian mainland.
Power plants
 
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Power plants in Crimea, Ukraine (TEZ = thermal power plant) |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Peter Mühlbauer: Russia puts underwater cables to Crimea into operation. In: Telepolis . December 4, 2015, accessed February 28, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Энергетическая система Крыма. Досье. In: TASS (ТАСС). March 24, 2014, accessed February 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Erich Hau : Wind power plants: Basics, technology, use, economy . 5th edition. Springer-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-642-28877-7 ( Google Books ).
- ↑ Denis Trubetskoy: Krim: In the dark. In: Zeit Online . November 24, 2015, accessed February 28, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Seogan: Запущена последняя четвёртая ветка энергомоста Кубань-Крым. In: Seogan. May 12, 2016, archived from the original on June 12, 2016 ; accessed on June 12, 2016 .