Unipro (former names: E.ON Russia, The Fourth Generation Company of the Wholesale Electricity Market or OGK-4) is a Russian
power generation
Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy. For utilities in the electric power industry, it is the stage prior to its delivery ( transmission, distribution, etc.) to end users or its stor ...
company formed by merger of five generation companies. 83.73% of the company is owned by the German energy company
Uniper
Uniper SE juːnipɚis an energy company based in Düsseldorf, Germany. The name of the company is a portmanteau of "unique" and "performance" given by long-term employee Gregor Recke. Uniper was formed by the separation of E.ON's fossil fuel ...
, the rest of the shares are owned by minority shareholders.
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History and operations
Unipro was founded in 2006 with the merger of the following power plants:
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Surgut-2 Power Station – 5,600
MW,
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Berezovskaya GRES
Beryozovskaya GRES is a coal-fired power plant near the town of Sharypovo in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The power plant is owned by Unipro. The installed capacity of the plant is .
Its flue gas stack is tall and the tallest free-standing struct ...
– 1,550
MW
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Shatura Power Station
The Shatura Power Station (, or GRES-5 locally) is one of the oldest power stations in Russia. The facility is located in Shatura, Moscow Oblast, and generates power by utilizing two 210 MW units, three 200 MW units, and one 80 MW unit, for a t ...
– 1,500
MW
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Smolenskaya GRES – 630
MW
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Yajvinskaya GRES – 1,016
MW
The installed capacity of all five thermal power plants is about 10,296
MW, which comprises about 5% of the generating capacity of
RAO UES
OAO RAO UES (OAO Unified Energy System of Russia; russian: ЕЭС России or russian: Единая Энергетическая Система) was an electric power holding company in Russia. It controlled about 70% of Russia's installed el ...
.
The output of the Unipro power plants in 2007 was around 54.5 TWh. According to the current investment program, there are plans to increase the original capacity of the power plants by 9.03 GW to more than 11 GW in 2011 with spending for these purposes by US$2.89 billion.
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