ELECTRIC POWER INSTALLATIONS AND SUPPLY IN EAST GERMANY

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• Publication Date: September 23, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the moan-
ing of the Espionage Law., Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 743
and 744, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law.
East Germany
Electric Power Installations and
Supply in East Germany
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
23 Septethher -_955
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE (DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
A. Report on the production arl planned expansions of the Trattendorf
power ple-ts with a primitive sketch map of the locations of
Trattendcrf I, II, and III0 (2 pages)
B. Description of the components of the Trattendorf power installations
(3 pages)
C. Installations and capacity of VEB Kraftwerk Elbe in Vockerode near
Dessau. (7 pages)
D, Power supply stations of East Germany, including capacities and new
construction0(7 pages)
E, Information on the Sonne and Lauta electrical plants (1 page)
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MISCELLANEOL S I I a wrION ON Z TRIC POER
IN RFA LL.ATION. IN RA 4' fW ;!l4 t1r
;City Eapandon of ODR Power Plants ( 1aisr a D.)
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1. At the present, the OEH power industry has an operable capacity of
3,000 asgavatts and an installed capacity of abort s~ megawatts. Last
'ear (i ), an installed capacity (increase) of 685 megawatts was planned
aettueellre a %O megseswatts was installed. The plane mention an gable
capacity of 4 0 me swatts. In 1955, 626 megawatts an planned to be added
to the power net,, CC megawatts of which are plaaened for the first half
of 1955. Of this latter amount, 19C'
megawatts are to be put in continuou
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s>service. It was originally intended'to start replacirsg all power plants
wing power at a cost of more than 10 DM per iewh with planets prodw,
power at a cost of up to .50 DM (per kvh). Subsereequentlys this plan was
withdrawn, time it would exert too great a drag an a continuing produs ti
if the industry.
2. The viewpoint hays been adopted that to imsprolr a effici.r*,y in condensing
planter it is necessary to change over to higher pressures and temzperaturesa
woad to utilise larger machinery units.
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pl d t~-4* SOSOemery to change oVer bek4gla?r-presgurees. -4e iratus+eas
am to a+ rte- -ter machiz zy-w#tass
The Elbe Power Plant at Vockerode is at present the most modern condone
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hour.* 84 atmospheres allowable gauge pressure, 500 degrees centigrade,
and 32-megawatt t boseete.
4. Installations of 132 slim spheres gauge pressure and 75-aaegswatt, drabs
turboaets are already under construction. In 1956, attempts will be made to
construct installations of 240 atmospheres MdMra gauge presassure. To do so,
hovmrJ, t h e t will have to supply the necessary technical data. The
purpose of these attempts is to reduce considerably the coal consumption for
\ ,the power produced.
Power plans further call for the enstruction of heat and
power plants with an installed capacity of 300 me sswatts by 1%0, plus
better utilization of parer and beat.
6. In addition, it is hoped to W set up a i?lODI-kilaaaster, 220-k mvelt
dated LLddt Chli
r-groune ne.zecosovaka Its supplied the technical
or this plawa. To the degree that the build;Lrg of the 220-kilovolt
pry, the 110-kilovolt consolidated nots if ill be reduced to the (o
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level of mirk distributes ion nets, while the lp>cal nets (Distribution) rfi1
no built only as four-line, three phase current ants of 220/380 volts.
7. At the same time, it is hoped to convert by 11?60 the existing ore-phrase
and two-phase alternating-current newts and the 127/220 volt throe-phass rests.
At pre tints there in a 220-kilovolt long-distance line between ? aburg,
Wittenberg, and Guesstrow, as well as a 21Q-4dla ]lt line between ii ?g,
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Passewalk,# Puersetenberg, s 4rannee. Work in being done., currently on the line
between i`rattendorf and Berlin; shortages of materials are causing difficulty,
particularly in regard to cable,., high-tension towers, and ineula4tors and
related parts. This net is of special importance to the supplying of power
to the northeast part of the 4DR.
8. In Besirk Rostock it is planned to increase the capacity of the
P"newu7tde Power Plant to 120 magawats. One 60-megawatt turbine has already
installed in the plant. The Brano-Rostook ;Power Plant has a capacity of
55 s egawattse the Stralsund Power Plant, 12 megawatts, and the Wolgast Power
Plant two 2.5 megawatt4 units.
The VF3 Power Supply Eaaterprie in Erfurt (at Beister- skehard Strasse)
is responsible for the area of south and vast Than ringeen and includes about
1,450 localities. The enterprise;a output equals 135 megawatts; the most
important power plants included in the enterprise are Erfurt I with 25 megawatts,
Erfurt f- Gi peeraleban with 25 msegawatts, and the VEB Eeicherode Potash
irks with 0.8 megawatts. The capacity of the last-named power plant
is to be raised to 8 megawatts in 1955, although this is greatly dependent
upon the "0$bssslverbindung" (forked connector
14. There is a 100-kilo-volt feed-line (Einspei sue) between Orosaakay na and
Oberroeblingen over which about 20 megawatts can be transmitted.
00-kilovolt line links the Breitungen Power Plant near 3tthl with
and Jena. A 30-'kilovolt line lends directly to Eisenach with a
second 30 4d.lovolt line to Eisenach via Gotha.
12, The Erfurt-Oispereleben transformer sub-station is linked with Arnstadt,
Lastgewiseen, Weiner, Apolda, and Soemmords by a 3-kilovolt line. These liner.
are double lines (doppelt beeetat). Although normally 380-volt three-phase
current is carried., the local note (Ortarsatse) for the moat part still carry
220 volts.
in power inspection office (Rauptenergie-Xnspektion) and the main
distribution office (Manptlastverteileng) for the entire GDR is located
the Berlin- iedrichefelde transformer station on Marsahner Cheusasaesa.
The following power plants are responsible for supplying power to Bezirk
,orns ita. Elbe-Vockerode, 4roskwinsls., 'earl Lissebknecht, and Br'eitssacheid, as
Desssau$ Rl.ostexmstat'nr- a efeld, Zeitz, and Qiwdliriburg net enterprises (Netzbeefiriebe),
plus the Bee sschd orf repair plant.
By the end of 3955, the Zac srnewits Power Plant is to obtain the follovir i
air comresssscr installation for 100 kilovolt-house (mss), 1.00 kilovolt -zre at3 n
call (Schal.tselle), dividing walls (Trennweende), one set of tubular coolers
high-voltage transformer, two cathode arresters (Eathodenfallableiter) for eledtric
coils, cooling altar-equaliser channel (Ruchlwasser usgleichakanal).,, cooling eMed
shields on the "Jungk" boilers In boilerhoveer 1, plastic bushings in plane of steel
bushings for the second inclined chain conveyor (Schraegbandkette); in addition, general
repairs are to be made on the two cooling towers, on boilers; 17 to P12, on the
superheater for boilers E 5 through E 7, on the 1O0mkilovolt transformer; new pipes in
the condenser of unit 9, replacement of live-steam heating with dry-steam heating in the
elevated bunker (Bochbunker), replacement of the condenser-pipe channels (G es nrohre) of
units 1-9# rebuilding of the boilers in beilerhouse E, gunits treatment (Torkretierung)
fooling tower 21. Zachornewits has to reduce its coal consumption in 19455
per kwh to 2.58 kilograms per kwh and at return 9441 tons of steel
0 tone of nonferrous metal. The Golpa brown-coal works supplies the coarse-
grained cool (used at the plant). The number of female employees is to be increased
from 11.6 percent to 12.2 percent.
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P aliminsry construction work is now being carried out for
Xmttendorrf II, and for the coking plant. So far, Trattendorf III has
only one 5-ssrgs tstt turbines A second turbine was supposed to start its
trial run on - June (1955) but still hasnot been put in operation. At
Trsttendorf i an cable has to be ,d Al relaid because it has been heav
damaged by nails. Turbines III and IV are supposed to be installed this
year (1.955). Preliminary work for the construction of the audliary
hinery building has not yet been concluded. Moreover, there is a
shortage of lj500 workers needed for the construction of Trattendorf I.
Work has also started on the construction of a 220,0f 0-volt line
between Trattendorf and Berlin] the line will be 130 kilometers long,
st of the power produced at Trattendorf will be transmitted over this
to Berlin and to the area north of Berlin. According to plans, the
is to be c +leted on 31 December of this year. never difficulties
are being encountered in the production of the approcimately 400 tors
the cabs required for this line. The Ries Steel and Rolling NM
is not supplying enough angle iron for the towers and the Wire and Cable
Works in Rotthenburg is behind in its deliveries of cable si moreover, the
snkfurt/Oderr Construction union so far has not started laying the
foundation for the *rlin-(t transformer station, and as a result the
Berlin Installation Construction Plant (Anlagenbau) cannot start
tiling equipment.
Trsttendorf will receive its coal supply from the John Schehr
Brown Coal Works in Lsub ecb. In 1957, the new Blune open-gait mine
will start supplying coal to Tratterdorf, According to plans, 12 million
cubic meters of overburden are to be removed in 1957. To achieve this
gds the Pinkenherd and ftedo brown-coal works have made their curs
available to the Bluno mine. Hoever,, it is not expected that the planned
raw brown coal production of 6 million tons yearly will be achieved at
the Blanc mine before 1958. The Blum mine will. also supply the raw coal
for the coking plant planned for co nstruc ti on in, Trattendorf.
I Lauta Power Plants (Enclosure $, dated 21 July 1955)
Bo" Power Plant is being ended specially for the b
coal industry. At the end of 19542 equipment with capacities totalling 20
megawatts was undergoing test runs at the OS ma" plant. Two 8-megsntt
units are supposed to be added this year (1955) The power plant has
also received l now crushing m411
The, Lauts Power Plant is being expanded . to supply the aluminum
jlr which is to be established in this area.. At the and of 1 ,
to plant had an installed capacity of 63 megawatts. Actual
WAS 500 minion kilowatt-hours. According to plan, the
plant's capacitor' is to be increased to 133 megawatts this year by the
ton of four 12.5-megawattI waits. It will then be able to
million kilowatt-hours (annually). Sias new boilers have
embkdd.
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Pied c aci Data on the Elbe Power Plant (closure C)
1. Overall data on the power plant
Total capacity t 288 megawatts
Total quantity of coal: 453.2 tons per how
rat consumption (relating to the high-voltage side): 3:375
Lea per kwh
Transmission voltages 110 kilovolts
Weight of steel not including construction steel: 106 kilograms
per. ki .o watt.
Boiler plant
fiber of boilers : 9
Permissible preesure i 84 atmospheres gauge
Dr= pressure: 80 atmos apsres gauge
Superheated steam te.-aperature : 500 degrees centigrade
Boiler capacity: 160 and 132 tons per hour
Efficiency: 82.5/83.5 percent
Food-grater ter peratu e r 190 degrees centigrade
Volume of waste gas at 200 degrees centigrade per boiler.
127 cubic meters per second
stack height: 140 meters
Imslde diameter of smokestacks at top: 7.5 meters
fiber and capacity of coal conveyer bel te: two at 500 tons per hour each.
Speed of conveyer belts: 2.09 metes per second.
Turbosets
r of turboeets? 9
Capacity of each turboset: 32#000 kilowatts
Number of revolutions: 3,0M rpm
Total volume of preheated a Lena p r ttu boset : 124 tons per hour.
Average diameter of output stages: 1A mill ters
Length of output blades: 40 millimeters
General voltage : 6.3 kilovolts
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Total water requiremente7 61#490 cubic meters per hour
Sumber and capacity of cooling water pine r 6 at 14,000 cubic
Teed pumps.
6 tav*ft turbo umps at 320 tons per hour each.
3 SE" (electric) pins at 160 tons per hour each.
2'eed-water temperature = 190 degrees centjgV9AG
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