ECONOMIC - ELECTRIC POWER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600250687-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 687
• Publication Date: September 29, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD O.
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED Belgrade
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Kriz Creek will flow Into an area surrounded by dikue and will form lake
Kriz, au;1 tea Licanka River, with it3 small tri'iutar; thrl ''bor'lili.A, will, f
Lake Ewer. The big3est lake, the Lokvar, will bs formed by the Iokvarka River
and will receive waters from lakes Baer and B:riz through pumping e.atluns and
special tunncle for which most of the earth any! oncr-to work has been finished.
Water collected in the lake will flow through pipes and. trnnels to tbie Razrolmir
peak and Iowa toward Vinodc].. With n head of 700 meters and a gradient of 30
degrees, each liter of water discharg,+d wtil develop approximately 7 horsepower.
At present, the hydroelectric power plant at Zeleni Vir, near Skrad, pro-
duoes 1,000 horsepower in fall and winter (Then there Is amrla water), but only
3.50 to 200 horsepower in the summer. Several power plants at Fuzine, using
wood for fuel and with frequent breakdowns, produce 400 horsepower, and the
power plant at Crikvanica (not in Gorski Kotar), with its inefficient diesel
motor, produoe3 on],?' 300 horsepower. Altogether, 1,700 horsepower are produced
in the region in time of abundant water and in the absence of breakdowns.
The new project will be in partial operation during the First Fi-e-Year
Plan (1947 - 51) and in full operation during the Second Five-Year Plan. The
groat hydroelectric power plant will be 70 times more powerful than the three
existing power plants combined. Ingtea3 of the 1,700 horsepower produced '_y
the three Inefficient old plants, a turbine will produce 120,000 horsepower or
88,000 kilowatts. This great power will be developed by brook water collected
in large reservoirse Prom the reservoirs, the water will flow through pipes and
tunnels and will descend abruptly through steel pipes, which will be 46 milli-
meters thick at the lower end in order to withstand 66 atmospheres of pressure.
Theo+e:r will flow at a speed of 110 meters per second and up, and will develop
a 26-ton force on the blades of the turbines.
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turbines in cut into a mountain. Trestles for machines are now being built in
this Ampiacement. The first genexatur will begin oporetion next year. Power
from two gei.eratore will flow over high-tension power lines in the second half
of 1951, when the Novi Vinodol hydroelectric power plant will enrich the Yugoslav
electrical system with 185 million kilowatt-hours.
given after the full electrification of villages and towns, and after all
needs of the forest industry have been met, the Gorski $oter will not begin to
cmeu*.te all the power produced by t`ii& -sower plant. for the time being, suffic-
ient power will be produced bl Zeloni h r (the thermoelectric plants at F-aziue
and Crikvenica will be dismantled as unprofitable) to meet maxim= consimption,
and a small hydroelectric power plant of 4,000 horsepower (four times more power-
9C . than the plant at Zeleni Vir) will be built, utilizing the fall of 50 meteze
between Lakes Bajer and Zekvar.
The Novi Vinodol power plant will be connected with the hydroelectric
power plants on the Soon, Drava, and Ozija rivers, and with tue Zagreb thermo-
electrio power plant. It will supply power to those plants, as well as to
letria and the Slovenian Primorje, because the hydroelectric power plant on tho
Seca is too weak to meet the needs of the newly built industries,
WORK ON PICS TITJI9T PRO012't9SING RAPIDLY -- Barba, No 174, 24 Jul 1'9
Deep in the defil, of the Sava River, near Zirov-Aica, where a new bed for
the river is being propered, the large turbines of the future Moats hydroelectii o
plant will be installed,
tort bee been under way for 2 vars, NIL is pry ;seeding : z gi dyv. r. ;c ox'.ieg
to calculations, one Zenerator will be built by D.'oember 1949, The Monte ;over
plant v1ll be the second Urge hyd oelectrio plant built during Tito's 7i e-
Year Plan. The fi_pet was the p.lzut or 9ieribor Io]asd,
As plrnned by RnRineer Onerz, a bridge built nearly 60 motors above the
Save, lesdb over the defile to the dwellings and workehopc on the lower bank of
the river, where residential structures, a workers' restaurant, union premises,
and other buildings have been built.
Rocks rare being crushed and mt ed with concrete in opeotal enclosures.
1cew machinery for mixing concrete, designed by Engineer Onerz, began operating
here recently. This results in a yearly sav!ng of nearly 350,000 dinars and
the quality of the concrete to better.
To make work in the river bed pnseible, the Sava first hid to be diverted
by a special uederground ditch. At first, semicircular partition walls were to
be built. Later it was ascertained that the materials were too weak to stand
such work. A new and better method of draining excess eater from the river bed
was developed at the hydroelectric laboratory at Itubljenn, From the lake which
will be farmed when the dent is ready, water will flow through a special tunnel,
under great pressure, to a turbine far below the river bed. The building of
,his tunnel hoe been the most difficult part of the entire -reject. Despite
unsuitable aatoriais,and constant flooding, the tunnel has been built and its
walls are already covered with concrete. Huge metal pipes, built this year in
Yu3oalav factories for the first time, will soon be installed in the tunnel.
The emplacement for the first turbine is ready, and cranes or unloading the
parts of the turbines can already be seen at the railroad station. The paver
will be used by the metalrorks at Jesenice.
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