Zmiev State Regional Electric Power Plant

(full name, G. M. Krzhizhanovskii Zmiev State Regional Electric Power Plant), one of the largest thermal electric power plants in the USSR. Its capacity reached 2.4 million kilowatts in 1969.

The power plant is located in the settlement of Komsomol’skoe, Kharkov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR and is part of the Kharkov Energy System, which is in turn tied in with the Integrated Power Grid of the South. Its average annual electric power output is 15.6 billion kilowatt-hours for 6,500 hours in operation of installed capacity per year. Construction of the power plant began in 1956, and the first section, six units with a capacity of 200 megawatts (MW) each, went into operation between 1960 and 1965. The second section, four units with a capacity of 300 MW each, went into operation between 1967 and 1969. The main fuel for the Zmiev State Regional Electric Power Plant is Donets coal and natural gas from the Shebelinka deposit. The circulating water supply system is a return type and consists of a cooling pond, two shore pumping systems, pressure pipelines, and closed and open discharge canals. A separate control board serves each of the two units of the electric power station. Regulation of the main technological processes of the power plant is fully automated. Operations computers have been installed on the final units. The Zmiev State Regional Electric Power Plant has been awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1966).