Russian, Finnish presidents to attend opening ceremony for Nyagan power plant
MOSCOW. Sept 24 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Finnish President Sauli Niinistoe will attend the launch ceremony for the Nyagan state district power plant, which the Russian subsidiary of Finnish energy company Fortum is building in Russia's Khanty-Mansiisk Autonomous District, on September 24.
The Nyagan power plant project is being delivered under a capacity supply agreement and involved building three generating units with overall capacity of more than 1,250 MW.
The E4 Group has built the first, 420 MW unit.
The gas-fired plant will generate 5.4 billion kWh of electricity a year when the first and second units have been commissioned and 8.6 billion kWh after the third has gone in to service.
Overall project costs are 64.174 billion rubles.
The first stage of the plant was originally due to be commissioned by December 1 last year.