Fortum has commissioned the second unit of its extensive Russian investment programme in Chelyabinsk (West Siberia). The new combined heat and power plant (CHP) unit at Chelyabinsk CHP-3 started capacity sales in the beginning of June. Chelyabinsk CHP-3 has an efficiency of 77%. The new unit's electricity production capacity is 226 MW and heat production capacity 142 MW. The commissioning increases the entire power plant's electricity production capacity to 586 MW and heat production capacity to 1,411 MW. The first unit in the investment programme was inaugurated in December 2010 in Tyumen and taken into commercial operation in February this year.
OAO Fortum has committed to implement an investment programme that will increase its electricity production capacity from the current approximately 2,800 MW to about 5,100 MW. The investment programme consists of eight units, which Fortum plans to commission by the end
of 2014. In addition to the two units already commissioned this year in Tyumen and Chelyabinsk, the Tobolsk power plant's new 200 MW unit will be completed this autumn. Fortum is also constructing a completely new power plant in Nyagan in the North Urals region. The plant will have three natural gas-fired 418 MW electricity production units. The first of them will be commissioned in 2012.
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