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The first large
The first large peat
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-fired thermal power station
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in Russia
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was built on a location about 80 km away from Moscow
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, in the place of the current city of Elektrogorsk, during 1912-1914. It was called ''Elektroperedacha'' (literally " electric power transmission"), and the settlement around the station (future Elektrogorsk) acquired this name, Elektroperedacha, as well. Today the station is called GRES-3 or Elektrogorskaya GRES.
Terminology
The abbreviations below are commonly used in the names of power stations. The term GRES (russian: ГРЭС (Государственная Районная Электростанция), lit=State Regional Power Station, uk, ДРЕС, translit=DRES) refers to a condenser type electricity-onlythermal power station
A thermal power station is a type of power station in which heat energy is converted to electrical energy. In a steam-generating cycle heat is used to boil water in a large pressure vessel to produce high-pressure steam, which drives a stea ...
introduced in the Soviet Union
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which still exist in Russia
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and other former Soviet republics. The Russian abbreviation ГРЭС stands for Государственная районная электростанция, or "state-owned district power plant" (often abbreviated in English as SDPP). Over time the abbreviation has lost its literal meaning, and the term refers to a high-power (thousands of megawatt
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) thermal power station of condenser type.
The term TEC or TETs (russian: ТЭЦ, теплоэлектроцентраль) refers to combined heat and power plants.
History
The SovietGOELRO plan
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of 1920s provided for construction of several GRES (along with 20 TEC and 10 hydroelectrostations, the best known among them is Shatura Power Station (peat-fired, planned already in 1914).
The first GRES were constructed upon the initiative of power engineer Robert Klasson.''The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926'', by Jonathan Coopersmith, 1992,
References
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