Interesting facts and unique objects of Energy of Russia
Electricity is so familiar to us, it seems like it was always nearby. And though the first attempts to understand this phenomenon were in ancient Greek philosophers and thinkers in the modern form of power a little more than a hundred years. In this article I want to tell you about the interesting facts in the energy sector related to Russia.
The first hydroelectric power plant
On the role of Russia in the first hydroelectric power station at once two candidates, namely: Berezovskaya HPP (aka Ziryanovsk), which is being built on the River Birch in the distant 1892. It was built specifically for the drainage of Zyryanovskaya mine and had as many as 4 turbines with a total capacity of 200 kW.
The second contender is Nygrinskaya HPP built in 1896 to provide electricity to the local nearby mines. By the way it is from this HPP Russia's first high-voltage power lines were delivered, which will create just the first electrified railway in Russia.
The prototype of the energy system
The prototype was the launch of the energy systems in parallel operation Pyatigorsk thermal power plant and HPP "White Coal". This event took place on 28.03.1913 year.
power transmission lines connected the data length of 21 km, calculated on the voltage of 8 kV. The fact that the parallel operation of the two power units formed the basis GOERLO plan.
Moscow's oldest power station
Old power of our capital is with you HPP №1, Which was built by the order of Alexander III, to provide power to the first trams.
This object and to this day is applicable and provides kicking energy objects such as the Kremlin, the State Duma, Lubyanka Square and the subway. And the object is protected by UNESCO.
The first hydroelectric power plant on the plan GOERLO
The first hydroelectric plant in terms GOERLO became erected on the bank of the river. Volkhov and solemnly launched December 19, 1926 HPS. This station, and to this day in the ranks and is an essential link in the energy system of the North-West.
The oldest continuously operating for over 100 years HPP
The oldest and continuously worked for over a hundred years (started in 1910, stopped in 2017 due to lack of funds for the operation) is a hydroelectric power station "Thresholds" (Porozhskaya HPP). This is the first hydropower plant in Russia, where the pressure is provided by built with masonry dam. Launched in 1909, the power facility had no interruptions so far.
The first electric lighting
In Moscow in 1881 the first 100 electrical lamps incorporated into Russia. From all of this amount was given 24 light at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Already by 1883 the same way were illuminated Kremlin and Ivan the Great Bell. And by 1888 in Moscow earned first substation DC.
The first nuclear power plant
The world's first nuclear power plant generated electricity became the station in a small town near Moscow - Obninsk. This station is the first in the world that has been connected to a common power grid and worked till their full stop to April 2002 as many as 48 years, which exceeded the initial service life of 18 years old. To date, this nuclear power plant is a memorial complex.
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