History

Kashirskaya State Regional Power Plant #4

Location: Kashira-2, Kashirskii District, Moscow Region

Date of launch: 4 June 1922

Capacity: 1580 MW (composed of six blocks: double 300 MW Blocks #1 and #2; single 300 MW Blocks #4, #5 and #6; and 80 MW thermalclamping Block #7)

Charter capital: 1 412 467 985 rubles

Number of workers: 1522 (as of 1 January 2006)

Status: OGK-1 subsidiary

The principal purpose of Kashirskaya State Regional Power Plant #4 is to produce and distribute power on the wholesale energy market. The plant also provides heat energy to consumers in Kashira. Kashirskaya #4 is the largest power plant in the region, accounting for approximately 10% of capacity in the Moscow power grid.

The plant is located on the banks of the Oka in Kashira-2, 115 km from Moscow . Kashira-2, located near the plant, was constructed for the plant's first workers and has since grown to become the largest and most developed city in the district. Kashirskaya State Regional Power Plant is the single largest enterprise in Kashirskii District.

The plant produces each fifth kW•hr of power consumed in Moscow and the Moscow Region. Growth in energy consumption in the Moscow Region exceeds recent estimates by a factor of six. It was decided that construction of Block #3 at Kashirskaya State Regional Power Plant is necessary in order to stave off potential energy shortages.

Brief history

Kashirskaya State Regional Power Plant #4 was one of the first coal-fired power plants constructed under the Russian State Electrification Plan (GOELRO). It was launched with much fanfare on 4 June 1922.

With a capacity of 12 MW, the plant was the second-most powerful in Europe . In the same year, 110 kW power lines (the first in the country) were stretched from Kashira to Moscow . Over the coming years, work continued. The plant's machinery was improved and its capacity increased. Experts at the plant developed and implemented a new method of burning brown coal, which made Kashirskaya State Regional Power Plant the most reliable and economical. In 1939, workers at the plant were awarded the prestigious Lenin Order for their successful work in developing new types of power equipment and the plant's accident-free operation.

During World War II, the plant's primary equipment was taken apart over a period of two months and shipped to the east. Reconstruction of the Kashirskaya began in January 1942 and was fully restored to pre-war capacity by February 1943. For this feat, plant workers received a second award—Order of the Labor Red Banner—on 1 April 1945. In 1946 the plant was granted the privilege permanently display the Red Banner of the State Committee of Defense. Kashirskaya was reconstructed and central equipment was replaced over the 1960s. In addition, a 10 MW gas turbine as launched, as well as a SKR-100 block that operated at high steam pressure and temperature (315 atmospheres and 655 °C ). Near the end of 1968 three 300 MW coal-fired blocks were installed. By the early 1970s plant capacity had reached 1178 MW.