Ryazanskaya GRES

Ryazanskaya GRES and GRES-24 are located in the town of Novomichurinsk of the Ryazan Region, 80 kilometers south of Ryazan and 285 km to the southeast of Moscow.

Ryazanskaya GRES is one of the five largest Russian power plants in terms of installed capacity.The installed capacity of the plant is 2,650 MW.

The first order primary fuel is: approximately 70% - brown coal from the Kansko-Achinsky coal basin, about 30% - brown coal from Podmoskovny coal basin (2BR-grade). The second order primary fuel is natural gas. Reserve fuel is fuel oil and starting fuel – gas and fuel oil. The 800 MW units of Ryazanskaya GRES are the most effective condensation sources among both load following and baseload installations with the exception of the 1,200 MW units of the Kostromskaya GRES. Ryazanskaya GRES is one of the primary suppliers on the regional balancing market of electric power.

On October 8, 2008 GRES-24 with an installed capacity of 310 MW joined Ryazanskaya GRES. The UES System Operator has GRES-24 registered as a separate plant with its own tariffs. The primary fuel is gas, there is no reserve fuel. After implementation of an investment project of Adding a 110 MW Gas Turbine to a Steam Power Plant on June 1, 2010, the istalled capacity of the modernized unit No. 7 RGRES (GRES-24) became 420 MW, with specific consumption of equivalent fuel 279.5 g/kWh.

The primary competitors are Mosenergo, TGK-4, GRES-4 (Kashirskaya) of OGK-1, Kostromskaya and Cherepetskaya GRES of OGK-3, GRES-5 (Shaturskaya) and Smolenskaya GRES of OGK-4, Konakovskaya GRES of OGK-5. Apart from that, Novovoronezhskaya, Kalininskaya, Smolenskaya NPP and Volzhskaya HPP supply power into the 500 kW grid and there is flow from UPSs of the Mid-Volga and Urals regions.

The plant’s capacity is not limited by factors of a seasonal nature.