Historical reference

The first city street lights

About that, that in Minsk it is necessary to create an electric lighting system, in the city government they first started talking at the beginning 1892 Mr. In the report of the council to the Minsk City Duma from 20 January 1892 Mr. noted: "City Duma, after listening at the meeting 9 January 1892 Mr. report of the Administration on the introduction of electric lighting in the city, elected a Commission to develop the issue of improving city lighting. Currently the Commission, having considered this issue at meetings 13 and 20 January, by majority vote came to the following conclusion: improvement of city lighting is necessary with electric lighting, at least in the city center 50 lanterns 1 200 candles each, assuming the annual burning of each lantern according to 2 000 hours and with that, so that it costs the city no more 10 000 rub.".

The first sources of electricity in Minsk were put into operation in January 1895 of the year. Then a steam engine with a capacity of 100 l. with. and two cars 50 "horses" with voltage dynamos 110 In direct current. Construction of the power plant was an expensive project, but the city coffers managed to save. Most of the equipment for electrical networks was purchased from the Libavsk state port for 10,5 outside. rub. In the minutes of the Minsk City Duma dated 28 March 1894 Mr. contains an instruction to the mayor Count K. Czapsky “purchase electric lighting according to the attached inventory, and bring it into town, Why allow him to enter into a loan of eleven thousand rubles?. or place a lien on one of the city’s real estate properties for that amount.”.

The demand for electricity has grown rapidly. To meet the city's electricity needs, the city government entered into a contract with the General Electricity Company for 151 outside. rub. IN 1904 Mr. a new power plant building was built on the Svisloch River, and the networks were switched to voltage 440 B on a three-wire system. TO 1917 Mr. the station was equipped with three diesel engines and two steam turbines with a total capacity 1 400 l. with. The power plant building is located on the banks of the Svisloch River next to the building of a modern circus. Electrical networks extend from here to the central part of the city: governor's houses were electrified, Bishop and Zakharyevskaya street.

Minsk became the fourth city of the Russian Empire, where its own power plant started working, becoming on par with Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kyiv.

Soviet power plus electrification

Elvod station was significantly damaged during the First World War. Soon after the October Revolution, active work began to restore the electrical system. From October 1917 Mr. the station began to be called the electric water station and came under the control of the municipal economy council of the executive committee of the Minsk City Council, where she stayed until April 1920 Mr.

Wars prevented further electrification of Minsk: Civil and Soviet-Polish. After their completion, there was an acute shortage of materials and equipment. Literally everything was purchased abroad: electric sockets and light bulbs, wires, switches, ammeters, voltmeter, generator.

In April 1920 Mr. the capital's power plant came under the control of the public utilities department of the Minsk City Council.

In 1920–1921. The GOELRO plan was developed in the USSR (State electrification of Russia), which assumed the comprehensive development of the economy based on a new driving force - electricity. To explain the main ideas of GOERLO in Belarus, Komsomol cells held “Electrification Days”, "Evenings of Ilyich's Light Bulb", propaganda brigades “Red Edisons” were formed, thematic exhibitions “Electrification of the village of the future” were organized, "Electro- hut". To popularize electrification, excursions for workers were organized at the station on Sundays.

IN 1924 Mr. the Elvod station was refurbished and began to supply three-phase alternating current electricity with voltage 6 kV. Based on the order of the Minsk District Council dated 30 April 1926 Mr. № 122 The Elvod electrical and water supply plant was created from an existing electrical wiring station.. The plant consisted of three enterprises: power plants, waterworks and peat mining (peat plant). The Elvod structure included management, electrical and mechanical shops and waterworks. The staff consisted 165 workers.

According to the report on the activities of Elvod for May - August 1927 Mr. and prospects for 1927–1928., the power of the station was “increased by installing diesel engines to 1 300 l. with, and the network up to 30 km". The station operated two turbogenerators (one of them - the German company "Brown Boveri" - still had to be configured), low-power diesel alternator from the Nobel plant, as well as a diesel alternator with a DC generator from the Augsburg plant.

The document noted, that “the main disadvantages of machinery include: unsatisfactory lifting structures on the river. Svisloch, low-power crane and low ceiling of the hall, not allowing for repairs, as well as placing a condensation device in the basement, threatened by spring flood".

Elvod created decent working conditions at peat mining. In the report mentioned above 1927 Mr. indicated: “In the swamp this season there was a fully equipped bathhouse, kitchen, barracks, boilers, outpatient clinic, not counting the 8-apartment building for workers. Dug 2 new wells with completely benign drinking water. There is a club, the radio, playground, giant steps, tourniquet, towns and summer scene".

The process of modernizing the capital's energy system has accelerated thanks to the launch of tram traffic. 27 September 1929 Mr. voltage was applied from the main switchboard of the power plant to the busbars of the tram traction substation 6 kV, a 5 October DC voltage 600 B went along the contact network.

At the same time, Elvod was having difficulty coping with the growing demands of consumers. In a letter from the plant management to the head of Glavelektro in the fall 1929 Mr. noted: "Power supply to the mountains. Minsk is currently not only in unsatisfactory condition, but threatens to shut down mountain enterprises. Minsk <…> A number of enterprises should be transferred to night work, despite heavy losses for industry, related to this.

At the same time, the power plant operates without the necessary reserve of machines and boilers, and in case of imminent malfunctions and possible accidents, entire areas of the city should be switched off this winter.”.

IN 1930 Mr. Minsk power plant reached capacity of 3 000 kW. The energy was used to illuminate the city and ensure the operation of factories and factories..

Narrow-gauge railway tracks run to the station, along which peat was delivered from the Komarovsky swamp by trolleys (territory of modern Peoples' Friendship Park and Bangalore Square). Sparks from steam locomotives threatened wooden houses along the tracks, and the road itself interfered with the improvement of Sovetskaya Street, therefore in 1936 Mr. The city council has developed a project for the delivery of peat by tram platforms.

From the plant to the power plant

In January 1934 Mr. The electric and water plant was renamed Minsk State Power Plant No. 1 (HPP-1), the main tasks of which were the generation and uninterrupted supply of electricity to industrial enterprises and the city's public utilities. Two months later, the first stage of Minsk HPP-2 with a capacity of 6,8 MW. Work on launching the second stage of HPP-2 began in 1940 Mr. A year later, four low-pressure boilers with a capacity of 20 tons of steam per hour and turbine K-4/13-320 capacity 4 MW. Electricity generation by two hydroelectric power plants amounted to 82,4 MW·h per day.

By this time, the capital’s energy system was part of the Belarusian Energy Combine ("Belenergo"), created in 1939 Mr.

The People's Commissariat of Power Plants of the USSR envisaged the construction of new power plants in the BSSR, including CHP. However, the plans were disrupted by war. In June 1941 Mr. stations were suspended.

Return to peaceful life

Restoration of the energy economy, destroyed during the Great Patriotic War, began immediately after the liberation of Belarus in 1944 Mr. HPP-1 resumed operation in July 1944 Mr.

In September 1944 Mr. The Belarusian Energy Plant was reorganized into the Belarusian Regional Energy Management Department ("Belorusenergo"). At the same time, a network of enterprises and organizations subordinate to him was created, in t. h. and in the capital. Belorusenergo was in charge of the Belarusian regional power plant in the working village of Orekhi-Vydritsa, Orsha district, GES-1 and GES-2. Minsk, Department of high-voltage and cable electrical networks and substations as part of Vitebsk, Minsky, Mogilev and Orsha districts (was in Minsk), "Energosbyt" in the capital.

By October 1945 Mr. Minsk CHPP-2 was restored. Turbines of the P-12 type with a capacity of 12 MW and T-15-36/3 capacity 15 MW.V 1948-1950 years. Three medium pressure boilers were put into operation.

Released in February 1946 Mr. The resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the construction of tractor and automobile plants in Minsk made the issue of electricity supply even more pressing. HPP-1 and CHPP-2 could not meet the energy needs of new plants, so in March 1946 Mr. a decision was made to build a combined heat and power plant on the site between the automobile and tractor factories (area of ​​the military town Krasnoe tract). And already 6 October 1951 Mr. Thermal Power Plant of the Minsk Tractor Plant, which later became Minsk CHPP-3, generated the first kW·h.

By the end 1950 Mr., when was the Minsk Heating Networks Department organized?, the capital's thermal power plants had on their balance sheets only about 2,6 km of heating networks. Since then, the length of city pipelines has increased more than a thousand times.

December 1952 Mr. "Belorusenergo" decided to terminate the activities of HPP-1 and transfer the equipment, property and documents at the disposal of CHPP No. 2 as a workshop. According to the order of the manager of Belorusenergo dated 2 December 1952 Mr. № 86 the reorganization work had to be completed by the beginning 1953 Mr. Part of the equipment of HPP-1 was transferred by Minsk Electro- networks, Komarovskaya and Molodechnenskaya CHPPs.

With commissioning in 1954 Mr. high voltage line 110 kV "Smolevichi State District Power Plant - Substation Orsha" has taken shape as the central part of the republican energy system. Three years later, Belorusenergo was transformed into the Energy Department of the Council of the National Economy of the BSSR.

However, the tasks of the energy system remain the same, and enterprises in the capital continued to operate as usual. In June 1962 Mr. network districts were abolished as independent self-supporting production enterprises in the electrical networks of the Minsk region.

Birth of Minskenergo

A powerful impetus to the development of energy in Minsk and the region was given by the creation in December 1962 Mr. District Department of Energy and Electrification "Minskenergo", soon transformed into the district energy department (REU). The founder of the enterprise was the Minsk Regional Electric Networks, which included city networks, heating networks, CHPP-2, Energonadzor, as well as Minsk, Slutsk, Borisov and Molodechno electric networks. At that time, Minskenergo employed about 400 Human. The enterprise provided electricity and heat to the capital of the republic and one of the largest regions - Minsk, whose territory was 40,8 outside. km2, and the population is about 3,2 million people.

• Vasily Pavlovich Smagin – Director of Minsk Regional Electric Grids, manager of REU Minskenergo in 1962–1977.

1960-These years became a time of transformation for the Minsk energy system. A number of services are being created within the structure of Minskenergo: relay protection and automation, Operational dispatch, electrical networks, insulation and surge protection. Substations are being put into operation 220 kV Kolyadichi and the first overhead line in the republic 330 kV "Kolyadychy - Vilnius", a network is being formed 220 kV.

Minsk CHPP-3 reaches capacity 420 MW.

The energy system of Belarus is connected by lines to the North- West of the USSR.

A significant event occurred in 1967 Mr. Minskenergo employees completed the electrification of rural settlements in the region.

IN 1968 Mr. Georgy Iosifovich Burov was appointed chief engineer of REU Minskenergo, previously worked as head of line service. In the 1970s. active construction continued: Minsk CHPP-3 switched to gas and fuel oil, The first electric boiler house in the republic with a capacity of 10 MW in Lubanski RES, construction of the substation is being completed 220 kV in Stolbtsy, The 1st stage of Minsk CHPP-4 is being launched with a capacity of 60 MW.

Decades of stability and growth

• Nikitin Yuri Mikhailovich – manager, General Director of PA Minskenergo in 1977–1994.

IN 1977 Mr. the enterprise was headed by Nikitin Yuri Mikhailovich. With him at power plants, in the thermal and electrical networks of the Minsk energy system, the development of modern methods for diagnosing turbine units was carried out, electrical equipment, pipelines and boilers, gradual introduction of automated control systems has begun (ASU).

In the 1980s. a unique heating complex was put into operation on the basis of the Minsk CHPP-4 and regional (peak) boiler houses in the capital. The only cable line in Belarus at that time began operating. 110 kV. By the end of the decade, the reconstruction of the Smolevichi State District Power Plant was completed, and the station itself was renamed Zhodino CHPP. The first substation in the republic was opened 750 kV "Belorusskaya" with high-voltage lines 750 kV to the Smolensk NPP and 330 kV – to Ignalina NPP.

• Voronov Oleg Nikolaevich – Director General of PO "Minskenergo" in 1994–1998.

IN 1985 Mr. the chief engineer of the enterprise was an experienced specialist Oleg Nikolaevich Voronov, which later 9 years, took the post of General Director of PA Minskenergo.

Energy for a sovereign country

By the early 1990s. the production association of energy and electrification of the Minsk region included 14 structural units. Among them is Minsk CHPP-3, Minsk CHPP-4 and CHPP-5 under construction, Zhodino CHPP, Minsk heating networks with CHPP-2 and others. The reduced power of the combination was 4 534,5 MW, installed capacity of power plants – 1 260 MW, length of heating networks – 2,4 outside. km, electrical networks 0.4–750 kV – 54,5 outside. km.

After the launch of the sixth power unit of Minsk CHPP-4 in October 1992 Mr. the station has reached its design capacity – 1 030 MW, 1 519 Gcal/h. The following year, a ring of high-voltage lines and substations was formed 330 kV around the Belarusian capital.

The period of the second half and end of the 1990s was interesting and eventful for Minskenergo., when modern technologies were actively introduced during the construction of heating networks. For example, heating mains began to be laid using PI pipes. To improve heat supply to high-rise buildings, to regulate heating and hot water supply loads, individual heating points began to be used (ITP). On networks 110 kV and higher, mass replacement of outdated equipment with modern equipment began, more reliable and secure.

• Babey Vasily Dmitrievich – Director General of PO "Minskenergo" in 1998–2009.

IN 1998 Mr. the capital's energy system was headed by Vasily Dmitrievich Babey, and in 1999 Mr. Andrey Andreevich Goranin was appointed chief engineer of Minskenergo. It was a time of large-scale modernization work, technical re-equipment and reconstruction of power plants, electrical and thermal networks.

A special role was given to increasing energy capacity and reconstructing boiler houses into mini-CHPs. In August 1999 Mr. The first power unit of Minsk CHPP-5 with a capacity of 320 MW.

New century of Minsk energy

In the XXI century. the Minskenergo enterprise entered with many plans for development and modernization. Each year of the new century is marked by significant projects.

For example, V 2001 Mr. The heating turbine unit was put into operation 3,5 MW at boiler house No. 1 in g. Molodechno (mini-power plant), V 2003 Mr. – the Selyava hydroelectric power station was restored, V 2004 Mr. mini-CHP introduced in Soligorsk.

Until the end of the first decade of the 21st century. The capital's power engineers commissioned an expander-generator unit with a total capacity of 5 MW at Minsk CHPP-4, completed the reconstruction of the substation 330 kV "Kolyadichi".

IN 2008 Mr. Minsk Cable Networks put into operation a substation 110/10 "Vesnyanka" closed type using the capital's first complete gas-insulated switchgear KRUE-110.

Soon the prototype was put into operation at the Zhodino Thermal Power Plant: boiler unit
Well 60-9,5-510 on local fuels- and. Work on the reconstruction of the thermal power plant in 2006–2009. was led by the chief engineer of RUE Minskenergo Andrey Andreevich Goranin.

As a result of the development and technical improvement of the fixed assets of the Minsk regional energy system in the 2000s. The reliability of energy supply to consumers has significantly increased.

The reconstruction of a number of substations was accompanied by the installation of modern electrical equipment, relay protection and automation devices based on microprocessor technology, application of the latest technical solutions and advanced technologies. This made it possible to increase the stability of the backbone networks 330 kV.

• Yurtaev Alexander Vasilyevich – Director General of State Unitary Enterprise “Minskenergo” in 2009–2011.

S 2009 by 2011 Mr. RUE "Minskenergo" was headed by Alexander Vasilievich Yurtaev. Under him, the Minsk CHPP-2 underwent reconstruction with the installation of two combined cycle gas turbine units with a total capacity 65 MW. Zhodino Distribution Zone was created, and at Minsk CHPP-3 the PGU-230 power unit was put into pilot operation.

• Voronov Evgeny Olegovich – Director General of State Unitary Enterprise “Minskenergo” in 2011–2013.

During the years of management of the enterprise by Evgeniy Olegovich Voronov, a combined cycle gas unit with a capacity of 399,6 MW. IN 2011 Mr. Borisov electrical networks introduced an automated system for metering and monitoring of interregional electricity, intersystem transfers- currents and generation. In the same year, on the basis of the Minsk Cable Networks branch, a training center was opened to train electrician-cable fitters and other specialists.

A year later, the reconstruction of the substation was completed 110/10 kV "Petrovshchina" with GIS-110, PS 110/35/10 kV "Pleschenitsy", PS was put into operation 110/10 kV "Grushevskaya". The building of the Training Center began to look different after a large-scale renovation.. A promising project was implemented in a branch of the agricultural company "Lebedevo", where the biogas plant with the capacity 0,5 MW.

• Drozd Pavel Vladimirovich – General Director of RUPMinskenergo in 2013–2017.

IN 2013 Mr. RUE Minskenergo was headed by Drozd Pavel Vladimirovich. Soon the reconstruction of boiler shop No. was completed 3 (RK-3) Zhodinskaya CHPP in Borisov with the assignment of the energy source to the status “Borisovskaya CHPP”, PS was launched 110/10 kV "Brestskaya", "Stone Hill".

IN 2014 Mr. The first vacuum recloser in the country's power system went into operation 35 kV on the overhead line 35 kV "Pleschenitsy - Logoisk", the overhead line was reconstructed 330 kV "Lukomlskaya SDPP - Borisov".

IN 2015 Mr. PS were reconstructed 110 kV "Ozerische", PS 110 KV "Chizhovka", PS 110/10 kV "Yugo-Zapadnaya" and substation 110 kV "Poultry Farm". In the same year, the construction of the substation was completed 110/10 kV "Kolodyshchi" with overhead line 110 kV "Minsk-Vostochnaya - Kolodishchi" and access road.

IN 2015 Mr. a substation was built 110/10 kV "Rogachevskaya" with lines 110 kV and reconstruction of substation 110 kV "Ozerische", PS reconstructed 110 KV "Chizhovka", PS 110/10 kV "Yugo-Zapadnaya" and substation 110 kV "Poultry Farm". In the same year, the construction of the substation was completed 110/10 kV "Kolodyshchi" with overhead line 110 kV "Minsk-Vostochnaya - Kolodishchi" and access road.

A unique project was implemented by Molodechno Electric Grids in connection with the construction of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant. For the first time in Belarus, a new section of overhead power lines was built 330 kV "Belarusian NPP - Minsk-Severnaya" on elevated metal supports (tall 62 m). This made it possible to install power line wires over forested areas.

• Moroz Alexander Georgievich – General Director of RUPMinskenergo in 2017–2019.

IN 2016 Mr. built a substation 110/10 kV Staroborisov- sky", PS 110/10 kV "Lavlya" with a branch from the overhead line "CHP-25 - "Minsk-Vostochnaya" and from the overhead line 110 kV “CHP-25 – “Smolevichi-Tyagovaya””, reconstructed the substation 110/10 kV "Drazhnya". Work was underway to supply energy to the Great Stone industrial park under construction..

In period, when RUE Minskenergo was headed by Alexander Georgievich Moroz, PS were reconstructed 110 kV "Atolino", PS 110/10 kV "Podlesnaya", PS 220 kV "Columns", PS 110 kV "Borisov-Severnaya", VL commissioning took place 330 kV "Belarusian NPP - Stolbtsy".

IN 2019 Mr. implementation of the project to introduce an automated process control system for Minsk heating networks continued, the reconstruction of the gas distribution and gas consumption systems of the boilers of the mini-CHP of the Molodechno electric networks was completed.

RUE Minskenergo has become recognizable not only thanks to its projects - the company has a corporate identity. For example, the modern logo was born precisely in those years.

Five years before the anniversary

• Oleg Anatolyevich Shchemel – General Director of RUE Minskenergo in 2019–2023.

IN 2020 Mr. To regulate the power of the energy system at Minsk CHPP-3, a project was implemented to install two water-heating electric boilers with a capacity 50 MW each (for the purpose of heat supply during the period of deep unloading of turbines after the commissioning of the Belarusian NPP). Commissioned at Minsk CHPP-4 4 water-rail electrode boilers with total capacity 160 MW, and at Minsk CHPP-2 - two electric- boiler installations 20 MW each. Slutsk Electric Grids have completed work on the reconstruction of outdoor switchgear 750 kV ps 750 kV Belorusskaya, launched two electric boilers 10 MW at Soligorsk mini-CHP.

The year was also marked by the reorganization of the Minskenergo Training Center, which included the State Educational Institution “Center for Advanced Training of Managers and Energy Specialists”.

An important event for the region was the introduction of 2020 Mr. on Molodechno mini- CHP electric hot water boiler with capacity 40 MW within the framework of regime integration of the Belarusian NPP into the balance of the energy system. IN 2021 Mr. reconstructed the substation 110 kV "Dubey" in Soligorsk district, Outdoor switchgear 330–750 kV, as well as relay protection and automation systems and PA PS 750 kV "Belorusskaya" in Starodorozhsky district, overhead line section 110 kV "Kaliynaya - Soligorsk" in the spans of towers, passing through the Soligorsk reservoir. On 43 % the plan for the reconstruction of the capital's heating networks was exceeded (95,6 km when given 66,9 km).

IN 2022 Mr. turbine unit Tp-115/130-12.8 st was put into operation at Minsk CHPP-3. № 7 and boiler unit E-500-13.8-560 GM st. № 10. Minsk cable networks reconstructed the substation 110/10/6 kV "Khimzavod" with installation of GIS-110, as well as the reconstruction of the Ostroshitsky Gorodok substation. The branch "Minsk Electric Networks" of RUE "Minsk-energo" has updated the medical building of the health center "Energetik". The Slutsk Electric Networks branch commissioned the production base of the Soligorsk Distribution Zone, in Borisov – the substation was reconstructed 110 KV "Microbiology".

• Gorudko Pavel Sergeevich – Director General of State Unitary Enterprise “Minskenergo” with 2023 Mr. – to date.

S 2023 year, the head of RUE Minskenergo is Pavel Sergeevich Gorudko. In the first year of his leadership, work was completed and the substation was put into operation 110/10 "Atlant", PS reconstructed 110/10 kV "Worsted Plant", PS built 110/10 kV "Aerodromnaya-2". In the same year, work began on the reconstruction of substations 110 kV: "Storozhevskaya", "Green Meadow", "Tabori", and a year later - “Western”, "Leskovka", as well as outdoor switchgear 110 kV Minsk CHPP-4. The base of the Dzerzhinsky Distribution Zone was reconstructed in the Stolbtsy electrical networks, completed the construction of the substation 110/10 kV "Cherkassy" with overhead lines 110 kV for power supply of FEZ "Minsk". Work on the reconstruction of outdoor switchgear has been completed in Slutsk 330 kV ps 750 kV Belorusskaya.

At the same time, a practical training base is being created at the Training Center (competence center) at the site of the regional boiler house "Stepyanka", and an indoor sports ground with a frame-tent structure is being put into operation at the Energetik OC.

At CHPP-5 in June 2024 Mr. The launch of a peak-backup energy source took place (PREI) as part of 6 gas turbine units with rated power 51,6 MW each. December 2024 Mr. at the thermal power plant- 5 comprehensive testing of equipment was successfully completed and the facility “Installation of a controlled shunt reactor” was put into operation 330 KV power 180 Mvar of the CHPP-5 branch of RUE "Minskenergo". The implementation of the project made it possible to compensate for excess reactive power in the UES network of the Republic of Belarus for normal repair and repair-emergency modes. Overhead lines were put into operation 330 kV “Stolbtsy – Baranovichi”.

Minsk cable networks reconstructed the substation 110/10 KV "Chizhovka", Substation "Worsted Plant" with installation of switchgear switchgear-110. For the first time in the republic, voltage distribution networks began to be used 20 kV.

A landmark event for the Belarusian energy system took place in Molodechno. A local electrical district crew was the first in the country to replace a defective reinforced concrete overhead line pole. 10 kV energized.

2025 year. Completed projects:

Reconstruction of outdoor switchgear 330 kV ps 750 KV "Belorusskaya" Starodorozhsky district of the Minsk region;

Reconstruction of the railway station 110/10 kV "Tabory";

Reconstruction of 110 kV outdoor switchgear of the Minsk CHPP-4 branch;

Reconstruction of the railway station 110/10 kV "Green Meadow" on the street. Sevastopol, 110, 110/1 in g. Minsk;

Substation reconstruction 110/35/10 kV "Zapadnaya" on the street. Timiryazev, 60.

Networks 0.4–330 square meters

IN 2025 year built and reconstructed 924,3 km LEP 0,4-330 kV at plan 921 km.

Heat supply

IN 2025 year shifted 89,9 km of heating networks in one-pipe terms when setting 88,1 km.