The list of the largest hydroelectric power station of Russia

Modern civilization has created many huge structures, the largest of which are comparable to such ancient monuments as the pyramids of Egypt or South America. Some of these structures-dams hydroelectric power plants, covering the powerful and deep rivers.

Hydroelectric power station of Russia

Russia, which has vast territories and a large supply of hydropower, generated over many rivers, is today one of the leaders among the powerful hydroelectric stations.

Only in the Russian Federation, if you count hydroelectric power station with a design capacity of 1 MW and above, there are about 150. Plus many small hydro power plants in Russia. And because of the relative cheapness, availability and large reserves of untapped hydropower that number is growing. Of course, the construction of a huge hydroelectric power station on the rivers of Russia like the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant requires a very significant cost and pays off slowly, so the number of installations is growing at the expense of small power stations.

List of Russian hydroelectric power station high power (1 GW)

Because of the huge amount of hydroelectric power station Russia, we will not in this article to cover them all. Instead, the review will examine the most powerful of them (with a design capacity of 100 megawatts). Some of them form cascades of hydroelectric power station of Russia, which are located on the same river (e.g., the Angarsk cascade). Let's dwell on the major hydroelectric power plants.

After Analyzing the table we can understand that the largest hydropower plant of Russia built during the Soviet era in 60-80 years.

Only a small number were built in the Russian Federation in 90-ies in the new Millennium.

Hydroelectric power station built in Russia with a capacity of 0.1 – 1 gigawatt

The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant

This hydroelectric power plant is the first among the largest hydroelectric power station of Russia. In world scale, it occupies the ninth place. His name is hydroelectric obliged the mountain chain of the Sayan mountains, in the area where it is located, and the place where I whiled away a reference to a famous political figure Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) – the village of Shushenskoye.

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The Construction of this giant of the power industry began in 1961, some of the construction work was completed only in 2000-ies. In honor of the builders opposite hydroelectric installed a sculptural group: engineers, assemblers and ordinary workers, who worked on another construction of the century, etched in stone. The composition is very picturesque, making it a desirable place for tourist photos.

Dam

The dam of the Sayano-Shushenskaya power plant is the highest in the Russian Federation. Its height is 0,245 km, the length of 1,074 km, width 0,105 km, the ridge width is 0.025 km, and the dam Stability is ensured by the unique design of the arched belt (part load – about 40% will be transferred to rocky shores).

The Dam goes into the rocks of the coast at a depth of 10 and 15 meters. Simple calculations show that the concrete mixture, which has a dam, could be enough to build a highway from Moscow to Vladivostok.

Emergency

Perhaps the Most severe test of strength for the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station was earthquake force of approximately 8 points on the Richter scale, occurred 10.02.11 G. Despite the fact that the epicenter was located just 78 miles from the station,it has not caused any visible damage to any dams or other structures that power plant Russia.

But ordinary citizens more aware another incident connected with the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station – crash 2009. It has become so serious test for the power grid of Russia and that the government was forced to impose restrictions on the use of filament lamps of high power.

Accident

The 2009 Accident on the largest hydroelectric power station of Russia has gone down in history as the most significant and large-scale consequences of the accident at TCU (hydraulic structures) of the Russian Federation. Killed seventy-five people. The experts conducting the investigation, called it the main causes of the destruction of the fastenings of a cover of the turbine.

In a powerful stream of water had flooded the engine room, destroyed the floors, walls and numerous station equipment. The power supply is completely stopped.

Possible consequences

The Dam was under threat of destruction. It could be a disaster on a national scale, because the towns and cities located downstream of the Yenisei river, would suffer greatly. The human, economic and ecological costs would be enormous! Fortunately, the plant workers, decisive actions prevented development in the most negative scenario.