ECONOMIC - ELECTRIC POWER

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• Publication Date: April 14, 1952
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Approximate basic figures on the progress of electrification in USSR dur-
ing and after World War II are as follows:
oan Production
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Table 2. Tctal Electric
r
Table
.
USER
i
of Industry
n
Power Output
Kw-b per
000
1
8i'.lions Percent
Percent
Percent
Percent
of Pre-
,
Rubles of
Industrial
f
of
of Pre-
Billion of
o
40
Yr
cedin
Year
KW-h
19+0
ceding Yr
Production
Year
Rubles
19
g
1940
138
100
1940
47.0
100
340
1941
--
1941
--
-
194,,>
--
-
--
1942
--
1943
--
-
1943
--
1944
1944
--
--
19+45
--
--
1945
--
--
1946
1n.
74
1946
37.9
8o
--
372
1947
124
90
121.5
1947
46.7
101
125.0
377
8
1948
146
lob
118.0
1948
55.8
119
119.5
3
2
8
.
1949
172
l24
11.8.0
1949
66.6
L42
119.3
7
3
92
1950
204
148
118.0
1950
60.0
170
120.0
3
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INFORMATION 1940 - 1950
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Table 3. Capacities of Electric Power Stations
1940 10, 500
1941 6,830
9 '-
1942 6,
1943 7PAOO
1944 7,00
1945 8,4O
1946 9, 3
1947 11,300
1948 13,700
1949 16,700
1950 20,100
Percent Percent
of of Pre-
1240 cedl Yr
100 --
65.o 65.0
65.0 101.0
70.5 107.2
75.0 106.8
80.0 106.3 88.5 110.7
107.6 117.7
130.5 121.2
159.0 121.9
191.0 120.3
Capacity
Lost Dux-
in;Z War
Capacities
Added
Avg
Rated
CKZ
operating
3s er Tr
in thousands of kilowatts)
--
600
10,100
4,170
500
--
430
500
--
500
--
500
--
500
--
900
8,7
0
0
4,350
2,000
70
^
9,960
2,400
12,100
4,600
--
3,000
14,700
4,530
--
3,4O0
17,830
4,490
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Baku EPS
Georgian WS
Armenian EPS
2. Northern CCuucccus
Gro%nyy-Ordzhonikidze BPS
Baksany-Mineral 'nyye Wyly EPS
Krasnodar RPS
Nowrrossiyak FPS
Nekbach-Kala EPU
f7n.? kop EPU
T4tsnse EPU
3. Ukrainian SSR
Dnepr EPS
Donets EPS
Rostov EP3
Khfr'kov BPS
Kiev EPS
Odessa EPS
Nikolayev EPS
4. Cxi.mean ASSR
Sevastopol' EPS
Ke rch EPU
Added During At End
Postwar 5-Tr of
Plant i2 LO
230 -- 25 255 25 280 325 580
155 -- 155 55 210 110 265
116 -- -- 116 20 136 130 246
81 -- -- 81
31 31 6 6
28 28 10 10
30 30 . 10 10
18 -- 1.2 30
i0 10 6 6
6 -- -- 6
81 187 268
_ 6 25 31
6 18 12 28
10 20 10 30
30 24 54
6 12 25 37
6
930 9^.0 122 122
9000 900 175 175
226 226 50 50
161 181 50 50
96 96 20 20
40 40 10 10
43 43 18 18
23 23 6 6
34 34 5 5
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7T7 8,99
685 860
202 252
111 161
52 72
30 k.0
50 68
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Table 4. Capacities of Electric Power Syatens ( s)
and Electric Power Units (EPU) From 1940 to 1950
?[?ate3 at Lost Re c e m End of
End of Idring Before ning of Aid in
a~l
1940 War 19x6 1946* i2'6 2- 17
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Moscow EPS
zaroslavl' US
ivanov6 EPS
Kalinin 8PS
Gor'kiy EPS
Voronezh-Lipetsk EFS
Zurek EPU
KX:zan' EPS
Tambov EPU
Eryansk US
Leningrad EPS
Murmansk EPS
Karel EPS
Arkhangel' e:. EPU
Kuybyshev EPS
Saratov' FPS
Stalingrad EPS
Aatrakhcui' EPU
15 15 5 5
36 36 10 10
1.,267
86
420
--
120
--
96667
80
--
--
80
15
15
10
10
290
--
25
315
79
55
25
49
10
10
5
5
36
--
--
25
40
40
12
12
22.5 99.5
25 59
95 -- 25 120
49 -- 12 61
130 105 25 50
22 -- 12 36
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632 984
67.5 167
12 12
50 109
75 195
50 111
80 130
12 46
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6. Central Rrgion of Llu'opean ASR
1, 2,100
25 111
25 105
31 41
50 .365
50 99
25 30
25 61
24 49
28 40
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Ural BPii
Orek BP-0
Chkalov EPU
Ufa EPU
laragonda EPU
Tashkent BPS
Fergana BPS
BaLkhash EPU
11. Western Siberia
Oa:ak BPS
Novosibirsk BPS
Kemerovo-K:1sretsk BPS
Chisrenkhovo EPU
Irkutsk EPU
U1i n-Udinek EPU
Chita BPS
1Caoberovsk EPU
Kowsomol?ak EPU
Vletdivoatok BPS
Dotal
!total Capacity of electric
potter atations of all sys-
tems and unite fic7
Grand total for Ui3SR
970
--
400
1,370
50
--
50
100
15
--
24
38
20
--
24
44
30
--
50
80
18 -- 12 30
50 -- 25 75
20 -- 24 44
60
260
10
20
20
10
--
100
160
--
150
410
--
14
24
--
36
56
--
12
32
--
12
22
1,300
75
50
50
1 50
234.5
25
25
24
50
50
7,691
4,009
2,900 11,300 11,700
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2,670
175
89
94
230
60
106
56
56
51
106
106
13,971
6,129
20,100
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The following notes are the author's explanations of how he arrived at the
figures in the above tables.
Table 1. Gross Production of Industry
The figures given for 1940 are based on newspaper reports.
I C.-
plan will be fulfilled and that the average increase will be 18 percent. The
table indicates that gross production for industry in the USSR during the post-
Production in the fourth quarter of 1947 exceeded average quarterly pro-
duction in 1940, indicating that the level of total production in 1947, al-
though still below 1940, was close to it. A rough estimate for 1947 is 90
percent of 1940, i.e., 124 billion rubles.
The estimate of 102 billion rubles for total production in 1946 is ar-
rived at on the basis of the percentage increases in 1947 over 1946. The in-
crease in 1947 over 1946 was 12 percent in the first quarter, 18 percent in
the second, 26 percent in the third, and 30 percent in the fourth quarter.
The average for the year was 21.5 percent.
The gross production for industry of 204 billion rubles for 1950 is the
official plan figure.
'T' fi es for 1948 and 1949 are based on the assumption that the 1950
The figure given for 1940 is close to the actual output figure of 47 bil-
lion kilowatt-hours.
The plan calls for 80 billion kilowatt-hours in 1910, according to Czecho-
slovak newspapers. Approximately the same figure will be ar ived at if the
planned production of electric power in the RSFSR for 1950, 56 billion kilowatt-
hours, is divided by the ratio of the production of the RSFSR to the production
of the entire USSR.
Electric power production during the postwar Five-Yea Plan has increased
]..7 times over produ-tion in 1940, whereas industrial production for the same
period has increased only 1.5 times.
This phenomena is explained as follows:
1. In 1940, the supply of electric power to other than war industries was
strictly curtailed. Guasequently, the communal economies, agriculture, arid
railways practically did not receive electric power. The 1950 plan not only
does away ritr.power restrictions, but also provides for the extensive electri-
fication of railways and agriculture.
2. Industries requiring a large amount of electric power, such as those
producing aluminum, magnesium, nickel, electric steel, copper, atomic energy,
products of electrical chemistry, and others, have been developed extensively.
F'or these reasons the number of kilowatt-hours per 1,000 rubles of the
gross production of industry has risen from 340 in 1940 to 392 in 19;0.
Production figures for electric paver in 1946, 191(, 1948, and 1949 are
based on postwar increases in gross prod,,ction for industry and tncreaseF in
o-s? - production -
power consumption per unit of Q=- for industry.
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Table Capacities of Electric Power Stations
The 10.5 million kilowatts given for 1940 are approximate. The plan for
1950 calls for 20.1 million kilowatts. l is ';zechoiilov'as newsko:pers reported an
increased capacity of 11.7 million kilowatts for the years 1946 - 1950 inclu-
sive.
in, 1950 .Dome reserve capacity was planned, As a result, the hours of utiliza-
tion of the established average annual capacity decreased from 4,653 in 1940
ar
e o
of power output for the same period was 170 percent, This is explained by the
fact that in 1940 the power stations had to operate at maximum capacity, whereas
Approximately the same result would be obtained if 7,060,000 kilowatts,
the increased capacity in the RSFSR according to the official plan, is divided
by the ratio of the RSFSR's total electric power capacity to the capacity for
the entire USSR.
The total capacity of USSR electric power stations curing the period of
th Five-Year Plan increased to 191 percent of 1940, while the increase
th E
r
during 1947 and 194? indicates that planned gross production was exceeded. For
instance, in 1947 it was 21,5 percent over 1946 production, and in the first
quarter of 1946 it was 32 percent over production during the first quarter of
19'?+7, whereas the planned average yearly increase dewing the Five-Year Plan was
fixed at slightly above -.6 percent- Is -- resuit of these achievements, the
completion of the Five-Year Plan in 1+ years was decided and will probably be
accomplished. Any question regarding the possibilities of exceeding the Five-
Year Plan for electrification must take the fciiowing factors Into considera-
tion-
confirmed by the fact that information avaiiaoie on ice - .Jv,
agrees with the calculated figures. However, the checking of the above-given
figures against newly obtained information is necessary.
The com rehensive information available on the performance of dustries
the assumption that the yearly addition of newly constructed capacities averaged
Figures for the capacities of electric power stations during the war years
to 4,490 in 1950.
1 Although the general plus: ben exceeded as far as production is
concerned, construction, which also inciudta construction of power stations,
power-consuming industries, and clec'..rifi..ation of railroads. is behind the
plan's requirements.
2. Consequently, the reserve capacity is still unavailable and electric
power is still rationed, especially for coL=uric:i needs and railroad transport.
The figures giver; in the table will probably be close to the actual figures
and changing them on the basis of the completion of the Five-Year Plan in 4
years is not advisable.
It is doubtful whether the figure!, given for the 'rive-Year Plan under
"Capacities Added," will bo realized. Just before the outbreak of the war,
production of equipment for electric power stations, and also the working ca-
pacity of construction organizations, wee barely ;ufficieut for the annual
construction of electric poser stations with a total capacity of over one mil-
lion kilowatts. A program of adding 2 or 3 million kilowatts a year is an
enormous task for the .ESR, involv?ng many difficulties.
The following should be taken into consideration regarding the location
of ..he electric power stations built during the postwar Five-Year Plan.
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The plan reflects the prewar decision of the government to build mainly
medium-capacity electric power stations and not concentrate much capacity in
a single,point for military reasons. The construction of new industrial enter-
prises in large cities is prohibited. These rulings apply also to the con-
struction of electric power stations, with the exception of TETs, which are
essential for beating in large cities. Is buiidi