POWER CAPACITY INCREASES; CONSTRUCTION, SHORTCOMINGS NOTED

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• Publication Date: May 31, 1950
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
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Economic - Electric power
Daily newspapers
USSR
15 Jan - 1 Apr 1950
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POWER CAPACITY INCREASES;
CONSTRUCTION, SHORTCOMINGS NOTED
BELORUSSIA POWER CAPACITY INCREASES -- Sovetskaya Belorussiya, No 12, 17 Jan 50
The output of electric power in the Belorussian SSR will increase 300 per-
cent in 1950 in comparison with 1946.
During the period from 1946 through 1949 electric power plants were built
anew in the cities of Baranovichi, Molodechno, Klimovichi, Gorodishche, Lagozva,
Mstislavl', Osipovichi, Drissa, Zhlobin, and Shchuchino.
Sovetskaya Belorussiya, No 67, 1 Apr 50
In the Belorussian SSR, the prewar capacity of hydroelectric power plants
has been restored. However, the plan for hydroelectric power plant construction
is being threatened with failure by the slow rate of construction.
UZBEK POWER PLANTS TOTAL ABOUT 800 -- Bakinskiy Rabochiy, No 12, 17 Jan 50
There are about 800 electric power plants in the Uzbek SSR. The capacity
of the electric power plants of the Republic exceeds considerably that of all
the electric power plants of pre-revolutionary Russia.
LITHUANIA TO GET 36 GES -- Sovetskaya Litva, No 76, 30 Mar 50
This year the Lithuanian SSR "Sel'elektro" (Rural Electrification) office
is building 36 hydroelectric and steam electric power plants in kolkhozes and
MTS at a cost of more than 8 million rubles.
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REVIEWS POWER PLANT RECONSTRUCTION -- Sovetskaya Belorussiya, No 23, 31 Jan 50
Construction and assembly workers of the Zuyevo GRES and workers, engineers,
and technicians of the Kharkov Turbogenerator Plant and the Leningrad "Elektro-
sila" Plant restored and put into operation a 100,000-kilowatt turbogenerator
and two powerful steam boilers in the Zuyevo GRES on 22 July 1946.
In the restoration of the Dnepr GRES imeni V. I. Lenin, announced 5 March
1947, 285 million rubles of capital investments were used, 146,000 cubic
meters of concrete were laid, and 11,000 tons of metal structure were assembled.
In April 1947 a 50,000-kilowatt generator was put into service in the
Zuyevo GRES and a 50,000-kilowatt high-pressure turbogenerator was put into
service in the Kurakhovka GRES.
2,000-KILOWATT RURAL GES BEING BUILT -- Pravda, No 30, 30 Jan 50
The 2,000-kilowatt Rassypukhinskaya GES, one of the largest rural hydro-
electric power plants in the USSR, is being built on the Moksha River in Ryazan'
Oblast.
KUZ'MINSKOYE GES FINISHED -- Komsomol'skaya Pravda, No 69, 22 Mar 50
The 1,000-kilowatt Kuz'minskoye GES is located on the right bank of the
Oka River. It was built by kolkhoz workers. State aid was received for its
construction in the form of 2 million rubles, building materials, and special-
ists. The GES has a stone building.
WORK PROGRESSES ON FARKHAD GES -- Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, No 11, 15 Jan 50
Tens of thousands of kolkhoz workers participated in the construction of
the Farkhad Hydroelectric Power Plant. The dam, which is the basic head instal-
lation of the power plant, was erected in a short time. The derivation canal
feeds water to the turbines and irrigates the southern part of Golodnaya Steppe.
The Farkhad GES should be the third largest in the USSR by capacity.
Pravda Vostoka, No 15, 20 Jan 50
In the construction of the Farkhad GES the Syr-Darya River was diverted
into a new channel. In April 1947 construction was begun on a power line from
the GES to Tashkent and Chirchik. On 15 February 1948 the first unit of the
plant began to produce industrial current. In May 1948 the first section of
the Southern Golodnaya Steppe canal was put into service.
During the construction of the GES, earth-moving work amounted to 18 mil-
lion cubic meters, rock excavation totaled 295,000 cubic meters, and stone re-
inforcingamounted to 328,000 cubic meters.
Putting the plant into operation increased the capacity of the hydroelectric
power plants of Uzbek SSR by 100 percent. At present, machine-building enter-
prises of Tashkent, metallurgical enterprises of Begovat, and many other indus-
trial enterprises, MTS, and kolkhozes are using power from the plant.
Krasnaya Zvezda, No 30, 4 Feb 50
The Farkhad GES has a concrete spillway 13 meters high.
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ARMENIAN ENTERPRISES WASTE POWER -- Kommunist, no 69, 21 Mar 50
During 1949, 40 Armenian SSR enterprises saved 18,594,000 kilowatt-hours
of electric power against the progressive norms. However, savings of electric
power in the republic could achieve even greater proportions if there were a
systematic plan for reducing power losses. The electric power inspections of
"Armenergo" (Armenian Electric Power), "Armsel'elektro" (Armenian Rural Elec-
trification), and the municipal electric power trusts are not operating satis-
factorily in this respect.
There are still some plants and factories and communal and rural installa-
tions where electric power consumption is not accounted for and where demand
is calculated on the basis of established capacity, which does not permit con-
trolled expenditure. Of 254 kolkhozes receiving power from "Armenergo," 153
do not have meters.
A majority of electric-power-consuming enterprises have separate norms
per unit of production, but many, especially those under republic supervision,
do not have the separate norms.
In many plants, setting up norms for electric power consumption is not
done according to commodity production, but according to gross production, based
on units of 1,000 rubles. This system does not promote an effective struggle
for electric power economy and does not help to uncover causes of overexpendi-
ture.
Some enterprises have separate norms for expenditure of electric power,
but the norms are obsolete and have not been reviewed for the past 3 years.
Mean progressive norms such as are employed in plants under Union supervision
are not used. It is necessary to review those outmoded norms and to work out
progressive specific norms for electric power expenditure.
In some plants and kolkhozes there is a lack of correspondence between ma-
chinery and the capacity of installed electric motors. Raising the capacity of
the electric motors causes additional losses of power. The uneven distribution
of load between phases which takes place in a majority of municipal and rural
networks causes losses of about 2 percent. Evening the load of phases, which
does not take any expense, could save about one million kilowatt-hours of elec-
tric power.
In many plants, electric power is used for purposes for which other types
of fuel could be used. In the Yerevan Cable Plant, for instance, 309,000
kilowatt-hours of power could be saved per year by changing over to other types
of fuel; the Yerevan Electrical Machine Building Plant could save 3.6 million
kilowatt-hours yearly, the Meat and Fat Combine could save one million kilowatt-
hours yearly, and the Plant imeni Kirov could save 480,000 kilowatt-hours per
year.
SCORES BAKU CITY POWER SYSTEM -- Bakinskiy Rabochiy, No 56, 18 Mar 50
In comparison with 1940, the electric power demand in Baku has increased
100 percent. However, in spite of this increase, the Baku City Executive Com-
mittee has not taken measures to increase the transformer capacity of the Baku
City Electric Power Network (GAGES) and to reconstruct and repair the city's
power systems. In 1949, the output of electric power was 12.1 percent short of
the plan. The street lighting of the city is in poor condition, especially in
the Nagornaya section and in the outlying districts of the city.
The insufficient control and the lack of suitable technical supervision on
the part of RAGES over the condition of electric power economy, the poor handling
of preventive repair, and the inadequate attention given to the question of net-
work operation have frequently caused accidents and have led to serious interrup-
tions in the city's electric power supply.
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