Pravoberezhnaya CHP of JSC TGC-1 celebrates its 90th anniversary

October 8, 2012 Pravoberezhnaya CHP of JSC TGC-1 celebrates its 90th anniversary. It is the successor of the thermal power plant that was built on the plan of electrification and was called Red October.

CHP was beginning built in the 1910s, and featured in the design documentation as Utkina Zavod’. The first turbine was commissioned in 1922, and in 1927 the station was renamed in CHP Red October. The CHP continued to run smoothly for several decades, including the years of the siege of Leningrad. From 1941 to 1943 it provided the city with electricity.

From 1960 to 1968 reconstruction and modernization of equipment were carried in CHP Red October. Thermal power was increased, the boilers were transferred to the oil-gas fuel instead of burning peat. In the late 1970s a separate hot water boiler was built, and CHP became the main source of heat supply and hot water supply for the residents of the south-eastern part of Leningrad.

The modern history of Pravoberezhnaya CHP began in the late 1980s. Then it was decided to rebuild the station. In 2006 it was commissioned a new steam power unit, and in 2007 the construction of a second energy block. This allowed on May 20, 2010 to close CHP Red October. Firstborn of soviet electrification plan is the first project in Russia when decommission not individual equipment but plant as a whole was done.

Today, the test unit of Pravoberezhnaya CHP completed and basic equipment is ready to be put into commercial operation.