Kremenchug Hydroelectric Power Plant

Kremenchug Hydroelectric Power Plant 

a large hydroelectric power plant on the Dnieper River above the city of Kremenchug. Output, 625 megawatts (MW), or 625,000 kW; average long-term power generation, 1.506 billion kW-hr per year.

The Kremenchug Hydroelectric Power Plant was constructed from 1954 to 1960. The hydroengineering system consists of a power house, a concrete spillway and an earthen hydraulic-fill dam, a navigation lock, and an open bus-and-switch structure for 154 and 330 kV. Rail lines and roads connect the structures. The length of the pressure head frontage is 11,280 m, the maximum head is 17 m, and the water throughput of the dam and power-house is 23,000 ml’sec. The pressure works of the hydro-engineering system form the Kremenchug Reservoir. Twelve vertical hydraulic units with Kaplan-type turbines (rotor diameter, 8 m) are mounted in the powerhouse.

The Kremenchug plant was the first power plant in the USSR without an engine room. The generators are protected by metal end shields 18 m in diameter. Control and regulation of the sequence of operations are completely automated.