ELECTRIC POWER DEVELOPMENTS IN THE USSR, 1951 - 1952

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• Publication Date: July 24, 1952
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USSR
Economic - Electric power
Daily newspapers, weekly and monthly
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PUBLISHED Oct 1951 - 10 May 1952
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ELECTRIC POWER DEVELOPMERrS IN THE USSR, 1951 - 1952
umbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.]
RSFSR
The municipal electric power stations of the RSFSR were in operation
3,377 hours in 1949, 3,606 hours in 1950, and were to operate 3,889 hours
in 1951. The lose of power through leaks in the power networks of the RSFSR
was 14.6 percent in 1950 and 14.1 percent during the first half of'1951.
However, performances of the networks of the Kaluga and U1'yanovsk electric
power stations were below the average and showed losses of 22.6 percent and
26.3 percent respectively.(1) The electric power production of the enter-
prises of the Ministry of Electric Power Stations in 1951 in Moscow and
Moscow Oblast was 103 percent of 1950, and heat production was 113 percent
of 1950.(2)
The '.951 power production of the Mosenergo power system was 111.3 percent
of 1950. The reduction of fuel consumption at the power stations of the
system to 488 grams per kilowatt resulted in a saving of 63.,200 tons of
standard fuel. The reduced costs of operation resulted in 12.7 million
rubles' extra profit. Total power producing capacity of the Mosenergo was
increased 9 percent in 1951. In 1952 it is planned to increase power-gener-
ating capacity 7 percent, transformer capacity 11 percent, and to extend the
transmission network 5 percent.(3)
Latvian SSR
A January 1952 so--rce states that, as a result of adding new capacities
and improving performances of the old establishments, the electric power out-
put in the Latvian SSR was 158 percent of 1948. To insure the further develop-
ment of industries and means of transportation in the republic, it is planned
to build a TETs in Riga and to install new turbines in Kegumskaya and Lepayskaya
electric power stations.(4)
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Lithuanian SSR
According to a May 1952 source, the first municipal electric power stations
in the repuolic driven by gas generated from locally obtainable peat and fire-
wood are being built in Ukmerg and JKriyampoll. They will be in operation
during the second half of 1952.(5)
Georgian SSR
The Kbramy GES has been working very smoothly since it went into operation.(6)
It is completely operated by remote control from Tbilisi, 100 kilometers away.
The remote-control system was installed by the workers of the central laborr-
tories of Gruzenergo. The high-voltage Eraq-Tbilisi transmission line is
utilized for sending and receiving electrical remote-control signals. In this
way the control system is independent of the usual lines of communications,
which are not very dependable, especially in winter. The operation of all the
main electric power stations and substations of the Gruzenergo by remote control
from Tbilisi is planned within 2 or 3 years.(7)
The controls were also being installed in February 1952 at the Za GES,
Chitakhevi GES and other GES of the Georgian SSR.(6)
In the Samgori Steppe, the first GEb now under construction on the Upper
Semgori trunk canal will be in operation shortly. It is being built by the
Second Construction Administration of Gruzgidroenergoetroy. When completed,
the GES will supply power through the Gruzenergo network, primarily to the
city of Tbilisi.(8)
According to a report of 6 February 1952, electric power must be econo-
mized in view of its acute shortage in the republic.(9)
Arrenien SSR
Installation of automatic controls in the electric power system of the
Armenergo has been under way during the last 2 years. All the aggregates of
the Dzor OES, Bevan OES, and others are now controlled automatically.(10)
Uzbek and Tadzhik SSR
In view of the continuous shortage of electric power in the Uzbek and
Tadzhik SSRs for industries, municipalities, and agriculture, the Council of
Ministers USSR decreed on 1. June 1951 that a number of new electric power
stations should be built to liquidate the shortage within 3 or 4 years, at
least in the main industrial regions of the Uzbek 88R. However, the Ministry
of Electric Power Stations is very slow in solving this problem] for instance,
in 1951 only 75 percent of the appropriations for this purpose were utilized.(11)
On 9 January 1952 the Stalinabed City Administration of Electric Power
Networks advised all the consumers of electric power supplied directly from
the city power network and from transformer substations of industrial enter-
prises that, in connection with the introduction of power consumption control,
it was prohibited to do the following, effective 6 January 1952:
1. To do electric welding between 1700 and 2400 hours.
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3.. To use any electric.heating device or apparatus between 1900 hours
and 2300 hours, even if the consumer had a permit to do so for technical or
other purposes and did not exceed the fixed'power consumption limit.
4. For Lnaut~orized persons to repair meters or supply-limiting gadgets
installed at the consumers'.
5. To exceed the limit of power consumption fixed for each consumer.
Persons breaking this regulation were to,be denied electric power for a
period of'not more than 3 months.(12)
Kirgiz SSR
Lake Issyk-kul is a large source of potential water power of the Kirgiz
SSR. Located 1,579 meters above'sea level, it is 184 kilometers long) up to
50 kilometers wide, and has a water surface of 6,124 square kilometers. Its
deepest point is 702 meters below the water surface. Prevailing winds help
to mix the water in the lake to a temperature above freezing. Consequently,
only a thin and narrow strip of-ice forme around the lake's shores during the
cold winter. More than 50 rivers discharge into the late, which has nc. out-
let.(13)
SOURCES
1. Moscow, Zhilishchno - Kommunal'noye Khozyay&tvo, No 4, Oct 51
2. Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 6 Feb 52
3. Moscow, Pravda, 18 Apr 52
4. Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 5 Jan 52
5. Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 10 May 52
6. Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 22 Feb 52
7. Ibid., 1 Jan 52
8. Ibid.., 26 Mar 52
9. Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 6 Feb 52
10. Yerevan, Kommunist, 3 Feb 52
11. Moscow, Izvestiye, 9 Mar 52
12. Stalinabad, Kommunist Tadzhikistana, 9 Jan 52
13. Moscow, Nauka i Zhizn', No 1, Jan 52
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