20 September 2021

On September 20, 1931, the ceremonial start-up of the Ufa Central Power Plant – the first steam-turbine power plant, later renamed SPP-1, took place, and an alternating current with a voltage of 22 kV was given through the first power transmission line over 10 kilometers long. This date is the birthday of the Bashkir power grid.

In subsequent years, the Bashkir power grid continued its development. In 1936, the Ishimbay CPP was put into operation, in 1938 - the Ufa CHPP-1 and power lines from them. In 1940, the Ufa Power Combine was formed, which consisted of one power plant - the Ufa SPP No. 1, as well as the City Electric Networks and Energosbyt. This year is considered the year of the creation of the Ufa city electric networks and Bashenergosbyt.

During the war years, Bashkirenergo employees made a significant contribution to the approach of Victory Day. During the war years 172 enterprises and about 247 thousand people were evacuated to Bashkiria to provide the front with weapons, fuel, uniforms, food, which required electricity. Compared with the pre-war 1940, the gross industrial output of Bashkiria has tripled. And, accordingly, the volume of electricity consumption has multiplied. Power engineers had to urgently increase production volumes in difficult conditions.

In 1941, the capacity of the Ufa CHPP-1 was increased to 22 MW, in 1942 it increased by another 12 MW. In May 1942, the second unit of the Ufa CHPP-2 with a capacity of 12 MW was commissioned. The capacity of the Ishimbay CPP was brought up to 17 MW. At the same time, power lines and step-down substations were being built. In Ufa alone, 45 transformer substations were built, about 40 kilometers of high-voltage transmission lines. The length of all power transmission lines in the republic was over 700 kilometers.

In the postwar years, the energy potential of the republic was significantly expanded. In the 50s, the Ufa CHPP-3, Salavat CHPP, Ufa CHPP-4, Kumertau and Sterlitamak CHPPs, Pavlovsk HPP were put into operation. During this period, the power grid construction was greatly developed. By the end of the 50s, all power plants of the republic were interconnected by 110 kV lines into a single Bashkir power grid, the railway from Chelyabinsk to Pokhvistnevo in the Samara Region was transferred to electric traction. Since 1958, all payments for electricity with consumers began to be carried out through Energosbyt, which was part of Bashkirenergo. The power grid of the republic has come to the second place in the USSR in terms of heat supply.

In 1963, by the decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the USSR Ministry of Energy, the electrification of agricultural consumers and rural settlements was entrusted to the power grids. Electric networks of 0.4-10 kV, small power plants from SelEnergo were taken into the structure of the Bashkir power grid. An extensive program of rural electrification has begun. In 1964, 8 enterprises for servicing electrical networks were organized throughout the republic. With the commissioning of the Beketovo-500 kV substation in 1966, the power grid of Bashkortostan got access to the Ural and European power grids of the USSR. The last, the 54th administrative region of Bashkortostan (Burzyansky), was connected to the power grid in 1976.

The growth of production and the requirements for the reliability of heat supply led to the need for the construction of second power plants in Sterlitamak and Salavat: New-Sterlitamak and New-Salavat CHPPs. Together with the Bashkir Biochemical Combine in 1976, the BBC CHPP was put into operation. The largest Karmanovskaya SDPP with a capacity of 1.8 million kilowatts was commissioned in the north of the republic.

Thus, by the beginning of the 90s, one of the largest power grids in the country was formed, capable of producing and distributing 35 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity and over 60 million gigacalories of heat annually. It has formed more than 40 large and medium-sized enterprises with a total number of employees of about 30 thousand people.

In 1992, the Bashkir power grid was corporatized with the creation of the open joint stock company Bashkirenergo. On November 7, 2012, the reorganization of Bashkirenergo OJSC was completed, as a result of which the main assets of the company were transferred under the management of JSFC Sistema and PJSC Inter RAO – LLC Bashkir Generation Company (BGC), JSC Bashkir Electric Grid Company (BESK) and OOO Bashelektrosbyt (ESKB).

Today, generating, grid and sales enterprises of the Bashkir power grid are actively developing and in many areas occupy leading positions in the domestic electric power industry.

The ENERGAS Group wishes the Bashkir power engineers success and prosperity and expresses professional gratitude for joint work in developing Russia's electric power industry.

ENERGAS supplied process equipment for the treatment and compression of fuel gas for significant facilities of Bashkir power grid, including:

- GTPP-25P at Ufa CHPP-1, the first in the Russia gas turbine power plant created on basis of aircraft engine;
- CCGT-60 at Ufa CHPP-2, the first combined-cycle plant in the power grid of Bashkortostan;
- GTPP-16PA at Zauralskaya CHPP, the largest source of energy for the Bashkir Trans-Urals.

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