Volgograd hydropower plant
| Volgograd hydropower plant | ||
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 49 '34 " N , 44 ° 40' 19" E | |
| country | Russia | |
| place | Volgograd | |
| Waters | Volga , Volgograd reservoir | |
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| construction time | 1952-1961 | |
| Start of operation | 1958 | |
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| Bottleneck performance | 2671 megawatts | |
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The Volgograd hydropower plant ( Stalingrad River Power Plant "IV Stalin" until 1961 ) is a hydropower plant on the Volga near Volgograd that was commissioned in 1958 . With an output of 2,671 MW, it has about twice the output of an average German nuclear power plant . The hydropower plant is located on the Volgograd reservoir .
To transmit the electricity generated in this power plant, the high-voltage direct current transmission (HVDC) technology was used for the first time in the Soviet Union , with the converter station located on the dam. Two high-voltage lines with a voltage of 500,000 and 800,000 volts supplied the power grid of Moscow and the interconnected economy of the Donbass region with electricity over distances of 1000 and 500 kilometers respectively . The machine transformers of eight generators also serve as converter transformers.
See also
Web links
- Article Volgograd hydropower plant in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.rushydro.ru: Общие сведения , accessed on April 16, 2019.
- ↑ Klaus Gestwa: The large Stalin buildings of communism. Soviet technology and environmental history , 1948–1967, Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, p. 30, ISBN 978-3-486-58963-4