Ryazanskaya GRES power station

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Ryazanskaya GRES power station (Рязанская ГРЭС, Novomichurinsk GRES, Новомичуринская ГРЭС) is an operating power station of at least 3024-megawatts (MW) in Novomichurinsk, Pronsky, Ryazan, Russia with multiple units, some of which are not currently operating. It is also known as Ryazan SDPP power station.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Plant name Location Coordinates (WGS 84)
Ryazanskaya GRES power station Novomichurinsk, Pronsky, Ryazan, Russia 54.03463, 39.779875 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the power station.

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Unit-level coordinates (WGS 84):

  • Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4: 54.03463, 39.779875
  • CHP Unit 7: 54.034, 39.78
  • Unit 5, Unit 6, Unit GRES-24: 54.03556, 39.77944

Project Details

Table 2: Unit-level details

Unit name Status Fuel(s) Capacity (MW) Technology CHP Start year Retired year
CHP Unit 7 cancelled coal - lignite 330 unknown
Unit 1 operating coal - lignite 260 supercritical 1973
Unit 2 operating coal - lignite 334 supercritical 2014
Unit 3 operating coal - lignite 260 supercritical 1974
Unit 4 operating coal - lignite 260 supercritical 1974
Unit 5 operating[1] gas[1] 800[1][2][3] gas turbine[4] yes[1] 1980[4]
Unit 6 operating[1] gas[1] 800[4] gas turbine[4] yes[1] 1981[4]
Unit GRES-24 operating[1] gas[1] 310[1][2][3][5][6] combined cycle[1] yes[1] 2008[1][2]

CHP is an abbreviation for Combined Heat and Power. It is a technology that produces electricity and thermal energy at high efficiencies. Coal units track this information in the Captive Use section when known.

Table 3: Unit-level ownership and operator details

Unit name Owner Parent
CHP Unit 7 OGK-2 PJSC [100.0%]
Unit 1 OGK-2 PJSC [100.0%]
Unit 2 OGK-2 PJSC [100.0%]
Unit 3 OGK-2 PJSC [100.0%]
Unit 4 OGK-2 PJSC [100.0%]
Unit 5 PJSC OGK-2[1] PJSC OGK-2 [100.0%]
Unit 6 PJSC OGK-2[1] PJSC OGK-2 [100.0%]
Unit GRES-24 PJSC OGK-2[1] PJSC OGK-2 [100.0%]

Project-level coal details

  • Coal source(s): Kansk-Achinsk coal basin, Moscow Region coal basin

Background

The plant is owned by the Wholesale Generation Company No. 2 of the Electricity Market (OGK-2), which is majority-owned by Gazprom (it was previously owned by OGK-6, which was consolidated with OGK-2 in 2011).[7][8][9]

Ryazanskaya GRES power station is a 3,024-MW power plant in Novomichurinsk.[10] The plant's first four units run on lignite coal from the Kansk-Achinsk coal basin and the Moscow Region coal basin.[11][12] The two 800-MW Units 5 and 6 run on natural gas (Units 5 and 6 were converted from coal in 1984).[8][12]

Unit 7 with 310 MW of capacity is also known as GRES-24. Commissioned in 2008, it uses gas. It is considered a separate power plant in the documents of the Russian System Operator.[12][13]

The power plant produced 3,403 million kWh of electricity in 2021 and 1,516 million kWh in 2020.[14]

In 2021, coal accounted for 62% of the plant's fuel balance, according to OGK-2's annual report.[14] No information on the fuel balance is available in the company's 2022 annual report.

In March 2018 Ryazan Governor Nikolai Lyubimov announced that half of the plant's units would be retired in 2021, specifically the units that provide heat to Novomichurinsk.[15] As of November 2022, there have been no updates on retiring units at Ryazanskaya GRES power station since 2018; the status of the retirement plan is unclear. Furthermore, the Russia government's order from November 2021 on the General Scheme of Electric Capacity allocation assumes no retirement of the coal units.[16]

Description of Expansion

The RAO UES 2006-10 five-year plan (from before the restructuring of RAO UES), which RAO management approved in January 2007, lists as a long-term project the addition of a seventh 330-MW coal-fired unit at Ryazanskaya, with a completion date of 2010.[17] After the restructuring, OGK-6 apparently decided to build a gas-fired unit instead: the construction on the 330-MW, gas-fired Unit 7 (also referred to as Ryazanskaya GRES-24) began in 2008, and the unit was brought online in 2010. There is no mention of a future coal-fired unit at Ryazanskaya in OGK-2's 2011 annual report.[18][19]

Unit 2 of the plant was apparently retrofitted, with completion in 2014; it is possible that sources have mistaken this retrofitting for a new coal-fired unit.

Pollution

In 2021, the Ryazanskaya GRES power station was named as one of the main polluters of the Ryazan region.[20]

Articles and Resources

References

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 https://web.archive.org/web/20220922161335/http://www.ogk2.ru/rus/branch/ryazangres. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20240125145732/https://www.ogk2.ru/elektrostantsii/ryazanskaya-gres/. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. 3.0 3.1 (PDF) https://ar2021.ogk2.ru/ru/appendix/OGK-2_Application_6-4_RUS.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 https://energybase.ru/power-plant/Ryazanskaya_TPP. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20221208002721/https://www.ogk2.ru/aktsioneram-i-investoram/otchetnost/godovye-otchety/. Archived from the original on 08 December 2022. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20230313045749/https://www.so-ups.ru/fileadmin/files/company/future_plan/public_discussion/2023/final/59_Rjazanskaja_oblast_fin.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2023. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. Ryazanskaya GRES CHP Power Plant Russia, Global Energy Observatory, accessed Mar. 2014.
  8. 8.0 8.1 Рязанская ГРЭС, Wikipedia (Russian), accessed June 2018 and November 2022
  9. "Рязанская ГРЭС". www.ogk2.ru. Retrieved May 2023. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. "ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ ОСНОВНОГО ОБОРУДОВАНИЯ ПАО «ОГК-2»" (PDF). ogk2.ru. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |title= at position 25 (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. Рязанская ГРЭС, Gazprom, Accessed June 9, 2021
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 "РЯЗАНСКАЯ ГРЭС". ryazgres.ru/. Retrieved May 2023. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. "Перечень электростанций, действующих и планируемых к сооружению, расширению, модернизации и выводу из эксплуатации (page 27)" (PDF). /www.so-ups.ru. February 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. 14.0 14.1 OGK-2. "2021 Annual Report (page 62 - fuel balance)". ogk2.ru. Retrieved November 2022. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. Власти рассматривают возможность размещения дата-центра на мощностях Рязанской ГРЭС Об этом сообщает Рамблер, Rambler, Mar. 30, 2018
  16. "Распоряжение Правительства Российской Федерации от 25.11.2021 № 3320-р". publication.pravo.gov.ru. 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. Investment Program of RAO UES of Russia Thermal Generation Companies for 2006-2010 and Key Power-Generating Equipment Required by OGK/TGK for its Implementation, RAO UES document, Jan. 29, 2007.
  18. OGK-2 2011 Annual Report, p. 11, accessed Mar. 2014.
  19. Gas Turbo Technology, Issue 3, 2009, p. 39.
  20. Rospotrebnadzor named the main air pollutants in the Ryazan region, RZN, June 1, 2021

Additional data

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