Novocherkasskaya GRES and Yaivinskaya GRES operate on waste
Novocherkasskaya GRES is located at 53 km from Rostov-on-Don. Consumers of its electricity are located, mainly, in the southeast of the region and in the North Caucasus.
Construction began in 1956. And in the summer of 1965 the first power unit was fully commissioned. The pace of the next 7 years of construction is 1 block per year. In the winter of 1972 - 1973 the construction was completed. By 2000, the gas pipeline was completed and two power units were transferred to gas, the rest continued to burn fuel oil and coal dust. In 2007, the construction of the ninth block was started. The block of fully Russian production will use the technology of the circulating fluidized bed. Such a technology is optimal for the requirements of environmental protection and European standards for emissions. The launch of this power unit is scheduled for December 2014. Three kilometers from the station was built the village of Donskoy for power engineers. For today the station refused from the settlement, leaving its inhabitants to the mercy of fate.
Novocherkasskaya GRES is constantly being modernized. In 2011, the reconstruction of water purification plants of Don water was completed. The new system will use membrane cleaning technology. Before that, the water for the boilers was cleaned mechanically, i.e., filtered, later introduced chemical cleaning, and now it is possible to abandon it (and from reagents too). This will significantly reduce the man-caused strain on the nature and population of Novocherkassk and the whole region. Modernization and gas purification continues. The new electrostatic precipitators are put into operation at the fifth, seventh and eighth blocks (as a result, the purification degree was increased to 99.5%).
In the coming years, construction of a newpower unit with a capacity of 420 MW. This unit will be combined-cycle with an efficiency of about 58-60% (against the current efficiency of the current power units of 33%). The block will be launched in 2016, which will lead to a reduction in gas consumption, a reduction in the cost of electricity, emissions of flue gases and warm water. Excess electricity will be sold to Georgia and Azerbaijan. In 2007-2009, it was planned to expand the power plant to two 800 MW units, but because of disagreements between the customer and the builders, the work was disrupted. The terrorist act at the Baksanskaya HPP made it necessary to revise the positions on ensuring the safety of the state district power station. An integrated system is being built from several lines of defense of the state district power station from the attack of terrorists.