HVDC Ekibastuz–Centre

The HVDC Ekibastus center is an unfinished plant for high voltage direct current (HVDC ) between Ekibastus in Kazakhstan and Tambov in Russia, which began its construction in 1978, which should serve to make use of in Siberia verstromte coal energy for Central Russia. This line should be completed at 2414 km long, making it the longest power line in the world. With an operating voltage of 750 kV to ground or 1500 kV between conductors they would have been with a transmission capacity of 6,000 MW, one of the most efficient energy transfer systems in the world. Until the termination of the project at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union a few hundred kilometers of pipeline were constructed, including a Volga crossing at Volsk in Saratov Oblast. 1991 three 124 m height pylons built - 1989 For this crossing were.

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