Bratskaya HPP: First Trillion is Done. Experience and Plans for the Future

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Bratskaya HPP: First Trillion is Done. Experience and Plans for the Future

The following persons took part in the conference: scientists of the Bratsk State University, specialists of JSC Irkutskenergo, representatives of such companies as “ABB”, JSC “NPO TseKTE”, “Voith Hydro” and LLC “Irkutskenergo Engineering centre”.
Dmitriy Mezentsev, Governor of the Irkutsk Region applied to the participants of the conference as well as Valentin Mazhevich, Member of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Vitaliy Shuba, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Lyudmila Berlina, Chairperson of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region; Sergey Edmin, General Director of JSC Irkutskenergo and Viktor Rudykh, Director of Bratskaya HPP.
On January 13, Bratskaya HPP produced the trillionth kilowatt per hour which is the absolute record of output among the hydro-power stations of Russia and all Eurasian continent. The capacity of Bratskaya HPP accounts for 4,500 mW and the annual output accounts for up to 30 billion kWh. Since 2006 the station has been implementing the large-scale modernization program. The completion of all the works directed to the substitution of 6 working wheels at Bratskaya HPP is planned for June of 2010.

Comments:
Dmitriy Mezentsev, Governor of the Irkutsk Region, “The spirit of the first constructors who came to build Bratskaya HPP is a hard act to follow. But we should not forget the atmosphere the country was inspired by when they dammed the Angara”.
Lyudmila Berlina, Chairperson of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region, “Behind this figure we see the years of hard, but rewarding work of several generations of Bratskaya HPP power engineers, the labor of a great number of highly professional specialists devoted to their deed.  Today the power engineers of Bratskaya HPP actively implement the modern technologies and together with this, they properly continue the traditions of their forerunners providing the reliable and failure free power supply”.
Sergey Edmin, General Director of JSC Irkutskenergo, “Current holiday of Bratskaya HPP is connected with such a nice figure that it is a special moment for all of us. This is not only the celebration of the promising number, but the celebration of the continuous and hard labor. This is the holiday of persons who day by day work for this.”

JSC Irkutskenergo is the largest energy coal company in Russia; it includes heat and hydro power stations, heating networks and coal deposits, transport enterprises, repair works and the coal-preparation plant. The installed capacity of the power station is 12.9 GW, more than 9GW of them belonging to the hydro power plant. The total industrial capacity of the deposits (brown and black coal) is 14.9. million tons per year. The Federal Agency for State Property Management possesses 40% of the shares of JSC Irkutskenergo, and the largest Russian private energy company EuroSibEnergo (belongs to En+Group), 50.19% of the shares.

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