The fourth stage of the energy bridge to Crimea. The energy bridge in Crimea does not work - new blackout schedules have been approved

The Energy Bridge to Crimea is a complex of energy facilities that allow the transfer of electricity from the Russian mainland to the Crimean peninsula.

The power system of the Crimean peninsula is deficient in power and electricity: 20-23% of the electricity consumed on it. Being part of Ukraine, the region was almost completely dependent on electricity supplies from the mainland of the country - the flow from the Ukrainian energy system to the Crimean one fluctuated between 70-90% of consumption.

In connection with the entry of Crimea into Russia in 2014, there were restrictions on the supply of electricity from the territory of Ukraine and a shortage of electrical energy arose in the technologically isolated territorial energy system.

Government decree Russian Federation On August 11, 2014, the federal target program “Socio-economic development of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol until 2020” was approved, which provided for the construction of an electric grid energy bridge between the Russian Federation and the Crimea Peninsula. Cable crossing across the Kerch Strait.

Work on creating a project for the construction of an energy bridge from the Krasnodar Territory to Crimea, connecting the peninsula with the Unified Energy System of Russia, began in April 2014 and was completed a year later.

The energy bridge project included the construction of two electrical substations in the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Crimea, the construction of power transmission lines, as well as the laying of four 220 kilovolt submarine cable lines across the Kerch Strait.

For each of the four lines, four cables had to be laid: three working cables, one for each phase and one backup. Cable laying under water was provided in separate trenches with a depth of up to 2.5 meters relative to the bottom mark with a distance between cables of 10 meters. On approaching the shore, the cables had to be laid in a common trench.

The Russian Ministry of Energy has concluded a state contract with the Russian Energy Agency to carry out work on the construction of an energy bridge to Crimea. The contractor was the company of the Rosseti group - JSC CIUS UES. The duration of the work is from the moment of concluding the government contract until December 25, 2020. The first stage of the energy bridge with a capacity of 350-400 megawatts, according to the contract, was to be put into operation.

Construction and installation work on the construction of energy facilities began in April 2015. The energy bridge was erected simultaneously at six points - a power transmission line (PTL) was built from the Rostov NPP to the Taman Peninsula, where the substation was reconstructed, and air lines to the cable crossing along the Kerch Strait and from the same cable crossing to Kerch and Feodosia.

Work on the construction of an energy bridge, after on the night of November 22, 2015, Crimea was completely de-energized - due to the explosion of supports, all four power lines coming from Ukraine were out of order. In Crimea and Sevastopol, a state of emergency and emergency power outage schedules were introduced.

December 2, 2015 Russian President Vladimir Putin. December 15th. The total capacity was 400 megawatts.

The third line - 200 megawatts - was commissioned on April 14, 2016. On May 11, 2016, the fourth and last line of the energy bridge was launched in Crimea. Thus, the energy bridge to Crimea earned full power. Due to extraordinary circumstances, it was introduced one and a half to two years earlier than planned.

As part of the implementation of the energy bridge project, two new substations were built (Taman and Kafa), five existing substations were modernized and reconstructed (Kubanskaya, Vyshesteblevskaya, Slavyanskaya, Simferopolskaya, Kamysh-Burun), more than 800 kilometers of power transmission lines with a voltage class of 220-500 kilovolts were built, four circuits were laid along the bottom of the Kerch Strait, consisting of four cable lines, with a total length of 230 kilometers.

With the launch of the last line of the energy bridge, the flow from the Russian mainland to Crimea increased to 800 megawatts, which, taking into account its own generation, amounted to about 1270 megawatts. This completely replaces the flow that was provided until November 2015 from the Ukrainian energy system.

The implementation of this project made it possible to completely avoid Crimea’s dependence on Ukrainian electricity supplies and reduce the risks of disruption of power supply to consumers. Currently, the second stage of the project is being implemented, associated with the expansion of the electrical grid component: from the Rostov NPP, where the fourth power unit with a capacity of 1.1 hectowatts will be commissioned at the end of 2017, a high-voltage line "Rostovskaya - Andreevskaya - Taman" with a length of about 500 kilometers will be built. With the commissioning of this line, the flow of electricity to Crimea will be increased to 850 megawatts (the energy bridge will reach full capacity).

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

The third line of the energy bridge to Crimea is expected to be launched in the coming days. The President announced this on April 7 at the media forum of the All-Russian Popular Front Vladimir Putin. According to the head of state, in a few days the power engineers will launch the third line of the energy bridge, and in May 2016 the last, fourth line will be launched.

Energomost was planned to be commissioned in two years

When construction began, it was planned to be completed by 2018. But then, taking into account the difficult situation with the energy supply of the Crimean Peninsula, which arose after the sabotage of Ukrainian radicals against power lines in the Kherson region, it was decided to shift the completion date of the work and speed up the progress of its implementation. As a result, by the beginning of 2016, two lines of the energy bridge had already been commissioned. At the end of February, the third line began operating in test mode. Its official delivery was scheduled for April 24, 2016. As we can see, electricity will most likely go to Crimea via the third line of the energy bridge ten days earlier than planned. Vladimir Putin promises that in 2017-2018 additional capacities will be launched, which will increase the supply of electricity to the peninsula.

Let us recall that the construction of the energy bridge across the Kerch Strait began in accordance with the decision made back in 2014. The main goal of the construction of the energy bridge was to ensure the integration of the energy system of the Crimean Peninsula into the unified energy system of Russia. The cost of building the energy bridge and related infrastructure reaches 47 billion rubles. The Rostov nuclear power plant near Volgodonsk was chosen as the main connection point and power source Rostov region.

The actual construction work in the Krasnodar Territory and Crimea began last fall. By November 27, 2015, a power transmission line to Kerch was built in Crimea, through which power from the first line of the energy bridge was to be received. At the same time, cable laying began along the bottom of the Kerch Strait. On the morning of December 2, 2015, the first line of the energy bridge was tested, and in the evening of December 2, in a solemn atmosphere, a ceremony was held to turn on the first line of the energy bridge, in which President Vladimir Putin and the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation took part Alexander Novak.

Ukrainian radicals failed to prevent construction

The launch of the first line of the energy bridge made it possible to transmit 100 MW per day to the peninsula. After the second line of the energy bridge was put into operation on December 15, 2015, it became possible to transmit up to 400 MW per day to the peninsula. Considering that in the fall of 2015, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar nationalists blew up power transmission line supports in the Kherson region of Ukraine, after which severe power outages began in Crimea, the construction of an energy bridge turned out to be extremely urgent. At first, Ukrainian politicians repeatedly said that the construction of an energy bridge across the strait between the Krasnodar Territory and the Crimean Peninsula was not possible.

When it became obvious that the bridge was not a dream, but a real project that had already begun to function, nationalist-minded politicians began threatening the energy bridge. Thus, the Crimean Tatar nationalist figure Lenur Islyamov promised to arrange a blockade of the Crimean Peninsula and from the Kerch Strait. Then the official authorities of Crimea were very skeptical about the threats from Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar radicals. In particular, the minister domestic policy, information and communications of the Republic of Crimea Dmitry Polonsky promised that the participants in the blockade will be given “an inflatable rubber duck, some will receive elbow pads, some may receive a Turkish inflatable mattress as a gift.”

Until recently, there were no provocations against the construction of the energy bridge that were known to the media. At the same time, the damage to the Crimean economy from the actions of extremists who blew up power line supports in the Kherson region amounted to, according to the Crimean prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya, at least 2 billion rubles. Criminal cases were opened against persons suspected of involvement in sabotage activities.

The bridge will make Crimea energy independent

The construction of the energy bridge will make the Crimean Peninsula completely independent in energy terms from Ukraine. In general, it can be noted that by now most of the problems in the field of energy supply in Crimea have already been solved. Not long ago, Free Press - South wrote that in the Kherson region, all the supports of the Kakhovskaya-Dzhankoy, Kakhovskaya-Ostrovskaya and Melitopol-Dzhankoy power lines, damaged in the fall-winter of 2015 by Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar radicals, have been restored.

Acting Director of the company "Ukrenergo" Vsevolod Kovalchuk he even stated at his press conference that Ukrainian power engineers would be able to restore electricity supply to Crimea within a few hours if necessary. It is obvious that despite the political bravado, deep down the Ukrainian side hopes for the resumption of electricity purchases for the needs of Crimea. After all, the radicals, by their actions, unwittingly caused serious damage to the Ukrainian economy, which lost financial revenues from the sale of electricity to Crimea.

Co-Chairman of the Energy Strategies Fund Dmitry Marunich announced profits from electricity supplies to Crimea at approximately $170 million. Thanks to the actions of radicals, Ukraine lost this money, and this despite the fact that its economy is already going through difficult, if not catastrophic, times. Therefore, Ukrainian energy workers are probably counting on the fact that sooner or later political disagreements will subside and Crimea will again begin to consume Ukrainian electricity. But now, as more and more lines of the Kerch Energy Bridge are launched, there is no longer a need to purchase electricity in Ukraine.

Deputy Prime Minister Russian government Arkady Dvorkovich praised Russian energy workers for the early commissioning of the third line of the energy bridge. Speaking at the board of the Ministry of Energy, Dvorkovich emphasized that, in fact, at the moment we can talk about the rapid pace of construction of the energy bridge. “We are actually talking about the advanced commissioning of an energy bridge connecting the unified energy system of the South with the Crimean Peninsula. Accordingly, the region’s need for electricity will be met almost in full,” Arkady Dvorkovich emphasized. It seems that the promises of the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexandra Novak commissioning the energy bridge by the beginning of the holiday season in order to ensure an uninterrupted supply of electricity to Crimea and not disrupt the arrival of tourists will come true in any case. Most likely, the fourth line of the energy bridge will also be commissioned ahead of schedule, after which the peninsula will finally be integrated into the Russian unified energy system.

It would probably be even more accurate to call them Crimean Tatar neo-Nazis, since there are different Majlises (translated, the word means “meeting”).

By the way, it’s fun with them. The fact is that, based on economics and geopolitics, Putin chose the direction of cooperation with Turkey - primarily on gas. This reduces Erdogan’s interest in overthrowing the Syrian leadership and in laying a gas pipeline from Qatar. Türkiye will now receive its share of profits from Russian gas, not Qatari gas.

But this did not stop Erdogan from building a fundamentalist regime in Turkey, which still supports terrorism, including in the south of the Russian Federation, including in Crimea. The same banned Crimean Tatar Mejlis is also financed through Turkish neo-Nazis (the so-called “Gray Wolves”). Turkey's subversive activities have not gone away and will not go away.

This is reminiscent of Putin’s policy in Ukraine, when in fact he did nothing there except gas. Even during the time of Yanukovych, rabid propaganda of Banderaism and forced Ukrainization continued there. Over all these decades, the Russian Federation has not taken any steps to influence this. Even after the coup, Putin quickly recognized Poroshenko’s illegal elections, leaving millions of Russians to be terrorized by neo-Nazis, the SBU and further forced Ukrainization, turning them into enemies of Russia as a result of many years of zombification.

The same policy was and continues in the Baltic states, where Putin is essentially not interested in the fate of Russians - the Russian Federation has never tried to use any instruments of pressure to ensure that gross violations of its own European rules in relations with “non-citizens” and linguistic minorities do not stop . It is difficult to imagine such behavior if we were talking about any other large countries in their relations with small neighbors who openly mock the people of a large country - and this is exactly what is happening here. To ensure that no one dared to violate human rights in these countries, it was necessary to take very decisive, ultimatum measures, but no one thought about this.

Thus, Putin consistently puts economic cooperation above all else, although history shows that the interests of the ruling class of billionaires and the strategic interests of the Russian Federation and Russian-speaking people do not coincide here too often.

Yes, it's not a black and white world. It is profitable for the Russian Federation as a whole, and not just for billionaires, to sell gas through Turkey and Ukraine, to sell electricity, albeit cheap, to the Baltic states, but when this is time after time accompanied by long-term damage to the people and the country, such a policy obviously becomes controversial.

In a teleconference mode from Sochi on May 11, the launch of the fourth and last line of the energy bridge to Crimea with a capacity of 200 MW was launched. After the introduction of the last line of the energy bridge, the authorities of the peninsula canceled the schedule of emergency power outages.

The launch of the first line of the energy bridge from the Krasnodar Territory to Crimea took place on December 2, 2015, the second was put into operation on December 15 and the capacity of the energy bridge doubled. On April 14 of this year, electric power companies launched the third stage, which made it possible to eliminate the electricity shortage on the peninsula. The fourth line will provide the ability to flow a total of up to 800 MW from the Russian unified energy system, which will fully cover Crimea’s electricity needs in the summer. And taking into account our own generation and diesel generator sets, mobile gas turbine power plants, the total generation is without solar, renewable energy sources, wind - amounts to more than 1270 megawatts.

In general, as part of the project, 2 new substations “Taman” and “Kafa” were built, 5 existing substations were modernized and reconstructed (Kubanskaya, Vyshesteblievskaya, Slavyanskaya, Simferopolskaya, Kamysh-Burun), more 800 km of power lines with a voltage class of 220-500 kV, 4 chains of cable lines with a total length of 230 km were laid along the bottom of the Kerch Strait.

After the start of the flow, it was received at the Kamysh-Burun substation in Kerch and transferred to the Kafa substation in Nasypny near Feodosia, where it was received by the operator and further redistributed among the Crimean substations.

The launch of the fourth line of the Kuban-Crimea energy bridge completed the commissioning of its second stage and made it possible to increase the flow to 800 MW at a maximum, which eliminates restrictions in the supply of electricity to socially significant objects, life support facilities, sanatorium-resort facilities, and household consumers of the Crimean federal district. Directly on the territory of the peninsula, there are now four thermal power plants with an installed capacity of 165 MW, solar and wind power plants with a total capacity of 362 MW, as well as multi-stage thermal power plants in Simferopol, Sevastopol and the Saki region with a total capacity of 315 MW.

At the Kafa transit substation, two 220/110 kV autotransformers with a capacity of 125 MVA each are installed, and 8 high-voltage lines with a capacity of 220 kV are connected to it. In the future, it is possible to transfer the Kafa substation to a voltage of 330 kV.

Currently, work is being carried out on the peninsula to modernize the equipment of overhead power lines and substations through the investment and repair programs of the State Unitary Enterprise of the Republic of Kazakhstan “Krymenergo”. Currently, construction work is underway on two large-scale base power plant projects near Simferopol and Sevastopol with a total installed capacity of more than 900 MW with commissioning in March 2018.

From January to March of this year, the company Kubanenergo, part of the Rosseti group, built and updated fourteen complete transformer substations in the Temryuk, Krasnoarmeysky and Slavyansky districts of the Krasnodar Territory, increasing distribution capacity by 1.063 megavolt-amperes.

The state of emergency and schedules of emergency power outages were introduced in Crimea and Sevastopol from the end of November last year, when all four power lines going to the peninsula from Ukraine failed due to the explosion of poles.

The first line of the energy bridge was launched in December last year. The second line was launched in the same month. The total capacity was 400 MW. The third line - 200 MW - was commissioned on April 14.

The Sevastopol Thermal Power Plant, located in Crimea, the purpose of which will be to reduce the load on transmission networks, will be commissioned by December 1, 2017. The Rostov Nuclear Power Plant is used as the main connection point. The main type of fuel at the Sevastopol Thermal Power Plant is natural gas. The target direction of basic generation is to provide Crimea with an independent source of electricity.

The system operator provided operating conditions for testing and commissioning of power lines at the final stage of construction of the Kuban-Crimea energy bridge. Branches of SO UES OJSC "United Dispatch Management of Energy Systems of the South" (UDU Yuga) and "Regional Dispatch Management of the Kuban Energy System" (Kuban RDU) developed and implemented the regime measures necessary for carrying out comprehensive tests and commissioning according to the design scheme cable-overhead line power transmission line (KVL) 220 kV Taman - Kamysh-Burun. Putting the latter into work

Crimean Federal District, April 14. – The third line of the energy bridge from the Unified Energy System of Russia to the Crimean Federal District was put into operation ahead of schedule. Its launch made it possible to increase the maximum power transmitted through the energy bridge from 400 to 600 MW. To increase the flow capacity, 7 energy facilities were built and modernized, the work on which was completed 13-17 months earlier than the initially approved construction schedules.

The next stage of the energy bridge to Crimea may become operational in the coming months, ahead of schedule. This was announced in Kerch on February 5 by the Chairman of the Crimean State Council Committee on State Construction and local government Efim Fix, writes REGNUM news agency with reference to the New Day portal.

The date December 2, 2015 will go down in the history of Crimea as the day the energy blockade ended, which lasted 11 days. This is a special event for Kerchan residents, since from the first days of the blackout our city was in the most difficult situation, receiving only three megawatts from the Kamysh-Burun thermal power plant. Energy workers have made heroic efforts to bring closer the day when electricity will flow to Crimea along the first line of the bridge laid along the bottom of the Kerch Strait. Of course, on the very first day the Crimeans did not

December 2, 2015. Commissioning work on the energy bridge, which will connect Crimea and the Russian mainland via a cable laid along the bottom of the Kerch Strait, is carried out every day. The acting head of the Kerch Distribution Zone, Esat Batalov, announced this at a morning meeting of the emergency situations headquarters. Reporting on the situation over the past night, Esat Batalov noted that in the evening the city felt a power shortage in the eastern node of the Crimean energy system: power engineers had to turn off “heavy” feeders and carrier lines so that the city “remained on

The energy bridge under construction to Crimea is placed under heavy security by law enforcement agencies due to the threat of terrorist attacks. The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, announced this today in an interview with the Russian News Service radio station.

“The deadline for the first stage of the energy bridge across the Kerch Strait is December 20, 2015,” Alexander Novak. The Russian Ministry of Energy is looking for opportunities to quickly commission the first stage of the energy bridge to Crimea before the designated date (end of 2015). This should cover about 70–80% of the peninsula’s electricity needs, RIA Novosti reports, citing the head of the Ministry of Energy, Alexander Novak. The commissioning of the second stage, scheduled for May 2016, will make Crimea completely independent of electricity imports.

CIUS UES announced a tender for the development of documentation for the construction of the 500 kV high-voltage line Rostovskaya - Andreevskaya - Vyshesteblievskaya (Taman).

A specialized vessel was stationed at the port of the Zaliv plant and set out this morning to complete the assigned task - laying a cable along the bottom of the Kerch Strait.

Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy Evgeniy Demin told the KERCH.COM.RU website in an exclusive interview about the stages of construction of the energy bridge to Crimea from the mainland, the timing of putting the facility into operation, and also what the republic will do if electricity is no longer supplied from both Ukraine and from Russia.

As part of the implementation of state tasks for the socio-economic development of the Crimean Federal District, a Scheme for the development of the electric power industry of the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol was developed, as well as the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 08.11.2014 No. 790 approved the federal target program “Socio-economic development of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol until 2020" (hereinafter referred to as the Federal Target Program), which provides for the construction and modernization of generation facilities, the electric grid complex, and the gas transportation system.

The work is in full swing. Heavy equipment has moved towards the village of Oktyabrskoye, where specialists are stretching wires between the main supports. During the work, the power supply in the village was turned off and train traffic was suspended.

Photo: IHMC RAS ​​In the Krasnodar region, during archaeological excavations preceding the construction of an energy bridge to Crimea, an amphora of the 5th century BC filled with oil was discovered. The vessel dates back to the 5th century. BC. An unusual discovery was made during research in the area of ​​the settlement of Ilyichevka (Temryuk district). The settlement arose in the 6th century. BC. and existed until late antiquity. Individual finds of molded pottery indicate that these places were developed back in the Bronze Age. Now

In May of this year, the first preparations for construction work for the construction of an energy bridge across the Kerch Strait. Today, builders say that by the end of 2015 the power line will be ready for operation.

The main work is being carried out off the coast between Yurkino and Glazovka, where a small construction site is located. At the moment, preparations are underway for the main work: employees of several St. Petersburg companies are laying out an auxiliary power line that will power the construction site itself, and special pipes are being laid from the water’s edge, which will become a passage for the main cable. In the fenced area, a terminal is created for the exit of the “energy bridge” - a tunnel is made underground using horizontal directional drilling (HDD), where metal-plastic pipes, creating a cable passage

The transition of the Crimean peninsula from one country to another caused an unprecedented resonance throughout the world. In addition to the political consequences, the resolution of which will worry the countries for a long time, some issues of providing for the inhabitants of the peninsula have also arisen. We are talking not only about ordinary consumer goods and food products, the delivery of which from the territory of Ukraine has significantly decreased in certain periods, but also about the energy plan. In particular, controversial issues arose regarding the supply of Crimea with electricity, water, gas, telephone