The complexity of planning the output of the power engineering industry in the USSR is pointed out, the recent achievements are reviewed and the tasks and problems facing the industry in the next few years are discussed. The construction of the Volgodon nuclear power engineering plant is to be completed in 1981. Some tasks for the ″Izhorskiy Zavod″ , ″Krasnyy Kotelshchik″ , and other manufacturing associations are outlined.