Energy storage photovoltaic power station under construction in St Petersburg Russia

Fifteen years later, on October 8, 1922, the first thermal power plant in the USSR, Red October, was commissioned in Petrograd. In 1918, construction of Volkhovskaya hydro power plant began. The hydro power plant was opened in 1926, and reached full design capacity in a year.

The hydropower potential of the region has been developed in the basins of the Narva, Vuoksa and Volkhov rivers. Total capacity of the plants in the region: electricity: above 4,000 MW, heat: around 12,000 Gcal/h. In 2006, Pravoberezhnaya CHPP was commissioned.

TGC-1 in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast include 9 CHPPs and two cascades – Ladoga and Vuoksa. The hydropower potential of the region has been developed in the basins of the Narva, Vuoksa and Volkhov rivers. Total capacity of the plants in the region: electricity: above 4,000 MW, heat: around 12,000 Gcal/h.

In 1883, St. Petersburg Administrative Board issued a concession to Siemens-Halske for lighting Nevsky Prospect, and 32 electric lamps were lit for the first time on the section from the Admiralty to Anichkov Bridge. The electric lamps were supplied from electric power plants on barges moored at the Moika and Fontanka berths.

In 1950, construction of Narvskaya hydro power plant began, and five years later the plant was commissioned to its full capacity of 125 MW. Construction of this hydro power plant solved the problem of electricity supply to Leningrad, Leningrad Oblast, and the Estonian Republic.

Nizhne-Svirskaya hydro power plant was founded in 1927 and commissioned in 1933. At the same time, the Svir-Leningrad 220 kV electric power line was commissioned, which was the first power line ever built completely with domestic equipment.