History

Verkhnetagilskaya State Regional Power Plant

Verkhnetagilskaya State Regional Power Plant

Location: Verkhny Tagil, Sverdlov Region

Date of launch: 29 May 1956

Capacity: 1497 MW (4 T-88/100-90/2.5 88 MW turbines; 2 K-100-90 100 MW turbines; 2 K-165-130 165 MW blocks; and 3 K-205-130 205 MW blocks)

Structure: 23 divisions

Number of workers: 1119 (as of 01.01.2006)

Status: OGK-1 subsidiary

Brief history

Construction of Verkhnetagilskaya State Regional Power Plant began in 1951. The plant was designed primarily to provide the Novouralskii electro-chemical plant with electricity. In 1964 the plant was operating at its full design capacity of 1600 MW. Under an upgrade project, four K-100-90 (VK-100-5) LMZ condensate turbosets were installed in T-88/100-90/2.5 thermalclamping turbines in order to improve heat supply to Verkhny Tagil and Novouralsk. Steam heat fixation T-88/100-90/2.5 turbines are dual-cylinder units with type-IV regulated selectors. TG-2, 3 and 4 models are equipped with type-PSG-2300-8-11 network heaters for heating water in the heat network serving Novouralsk. TG-1 and 4 are equipped with network heaters for providing heat to Verkhny Tagil and industrial complexes. The nominal electrical capacity of a turbine unit is 88 MW; the maximum, 110 MW; and 100 MW, in pure condensate mode.

After Blocks #1–#4 of Verkhnetagilskaya State Regional Power Plant were adapted for Ekibastuzskii coal, Block #4 was renamed K-165-130. The nominal electrical capacity of the turbine unit is 165 MW. Its maximum capacity working on Ekibastuzskii coal is 165 MW and 205 MW on natural gas.

Currently the power plant boasts a generative capacity of 1497 MW. The plant is one of the primary suppliers of electrical energy in Sverdlov Region.

Verkhnetagilskaya State Regional Power Plant is located 80 km north of Ekaterinburg, the center of Sverdlov Region. The industrial complexes served by the plant are located in a district located on the eastern slopes of the central Ural Mountains . This district is in upstream in the Tagil River valley and in the Mesozoic Ivdelsko-Tagilskaya erosion depression surrounded by the uplifted central Ural Mountains . The relief is hilly with a clearly marked depression stretching along the length of the Tagil River valley. The positive and negative contours of the relief extend in a meridional direction. The absolute grade of the surface varies from 270 to 350–370 m. The hilly relief to the west and the Tagil River depression to the east are joined by a mountainous relief with an absolute grade of 500–600 m.

The production facilities have a total area of 500 000 m 2 and a 4 150 m perimeter.

Currently Verkhnetagilskaya State Regional Power Plant is a branch of WGC-1 and along with other federal Russian power plants has the wholesale energy market. The plant provides reliable and uninterrupted equipment operation in order to supply the Ural Region with electricity and is continually improving production processes. The plant's administration has set its sights on achieving high results in both energy savings and company management.

The main purpose of Verkhnetagilskaya State Regional Power Plant is to produce electrical and heat energy and provide reliable supply of electricity to consumers.