The electric power complex of Russia at present includes about 700 power plants with a unit capacity of over 5 MW constituting the Unified energy system.
1 Backbone electricity generators.
The Unified energy system of Russia consists of 69 regional energy systems, which in turn form the seven united energy systems of East, Siberia, Ural, Middle Volga, South, Center and North-West, located on the territory of 79 subjects of the Russian Federation. The power supply systems of UES of Russia are connected by the intersystem high voltage power lines (220-500 kV and above) and perform parallel operation in the synchronous mode. Grid facilities of UES of Russia amount to more than 10,700 transmission lines 110-1,150 kV.
Major branch infrastructure organizations
System Operator of Unified Energy System, JSC — a specialized organization that is solely responsible for the centralized operational dispatch management (ODM) of the Unified energy system of Russia (www.so-ups.ru).
Council for Organizing Efficient System of Trading at Wholesale and Retail Electricity and Capacity Market, Non-profit Partnership (NP Market Council) — a non-profit organization uniting subjects of the power industry and large consumers of electric power on a membership basis (www.np-sr.ru).
Inter RAO UES Group — a diversified energy holding that operates generating and sales assets in Russia, Europe and the CIS. The company is the sole Russian operator of electricity export and import (www.interrao.ru).
Russian Grids, JSC (JSC Rosseti) — the operator of power networks in Russia, one of the largest grid companies in the world that operates 2.2 million km of power lines and 473 thousand transformer substations with a capacity of more than 743 GW. The property complex of Rosseti includes 43 subsidiaries and dependent companies, including 14 interregional companies and one trunk grid company. The controlling shareholder is the state represented by the Federal Agency for state property management of the Russian Federation. Rosseti is the main shareholder of Lenenergo (www.rosseti.ru).
Key indicators of the electric power industry of Russia
As at 31 December 2014, the total installed capacity of power plants of the country was 240.3 GW, which is almost 3% above the end of 2013 exceeding the maximum load in 1.53 times.
Due to the input throughout the year of a number of power facilities, including commissioning of the third unit of Rostov NPP-2 and launch of the hydraulic units 7-9 of Boguchanskaya HPP, the gain of new capacities in Russia in 2014 amounted to 6,693 MW, which is more than 66% above the level of 2013 (4,018 MW). At the same time, the power plants of UES of Russia have decommissioned 1,762.6 MW of inefficient and out-of-date generating equipment.
Installed capacity of the existing power plants had the following breakdown by types of generation in 2014: heat power plants — 68.24%, hydroelectric power plants — 20.60%, and nuclear power plants — 11.16%.
Annually, all power plants in the country produce over a trillion kilowatt hours of electricity. In 2014, electricity production amounted to 1,047.4 bn kWh, which is slightly higher than in 2013.
According to the Ministry of Power Industry, in 2014, Russia’s share in global electricity generation remained at the level of 2013, amounting to 4.7%, which corresponds to the fifth largest in the world after Japan, USA, China and India.
Structure of installed capacitySee official website of UES of Russia / http://so-ups.ru/index.php?id=ees of power plants of the UES of Russia as at the end of 2014, %
Structure of electricity generationSee official website of UES of Russia / http://so-ups.ru/index.php?id=ees by types of power plants of the UES of Russia in 2014, %
Electricity generationPresentation of the Ministry of Power Industry on performance results of the fuel and energy complex of Russia in 2014., bn kWh
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*Including the Crimea Federal District
Estimates according to OPEC, EIA, IEA, Central Dispatching Department of Fuel Energy Complex (excluding the Crimea Federal District)
Electricity consumption in 2010-2014Information review Unified energy system of Russia: intermediate results (operative data), December 2014., bn kWh
Dynamics of electricity consumptionInformation review Unified energy system of Russia: intermediate results (operative data, December 2014. in the UES of Russia in 2014 by months, bn kWh
Dynamics of investmentsPresentation of the Ministry of Power Industry on performance results of the fuel and energy complex of Russia in 2014 (preliminary data on 2014) in generation and the grid complex development, RUB bn
According to the Ministry of Power Industry of the Russian Federation, total investments of power grid and generating companies in the development of generation and grid complex in 2014 decreased by 5.5% y-o-y and amounted to RUB 819 bn. The largest decline (by almost 6.7%) to RUB 321.7 bn was marked among grid companies, while generating companies reduced their investments by 4.7% to RUB 497.7 bn.
Integrated power system of the North-West
The united energy system (UES) of the North-West includes eight power supply systems located throughout ten regions of the Russian Federation in the Northwest Federal District: St. Petersburg, Murmansk Region, Kaliningrad Region, Leningrad Region, Novgorod Region, Pskov Region, Arkhangelsk Region, Republic of Karelia, Republic of Komi, and Nenets Autonomous district. The area of the operating zone of the joint dispatch management of the North-West covers 1,533.4 thousand sq. km, the cities and towns of which are populated by 13.7 million people.
The operating zone of the Leningrad regional dispatch management includes power supply systems of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
At the end of 2014, the power grid complex consists of 125 power stations (including 101 power stations of 5 MW and above) with total installed capacity of 23,286 thousand MW, 1,089 electrical substations 110-750 kV with total installed capacity of 86,913.6 MVA, and 1,412 power lines 110-750 kV with total length of 44,105.4 km in single circuit.
In 2014, the volume of electricity generated by power stations of the operating zone of the joint dispatch management of the North-West amounted to 102.5 bn kWh, up by 1.4% y-o-y. Electricity consumption in the reporting period in UES of the North-West was 0.5% above the level of 2013, and amounted to 90.8 bn kWh.