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 ˆjuËnipÉšis 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
The Surgut-2 Power Station on the Ob River in Russia is the second-largest gas-fired power station in the world, and largest in Russia with an installed capacity of in 2016. it is the gas-fired power plant (of those Climate Trace was able to mo ...
– 5,600
MW,
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Berezovskaya GRES – 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 Smolensky is a Russian adjective referring to the city or region of Smolensk. It is also used as a surname, originally meaning someone from, or connected to, the city or the region of Smolensk. It has the (transliterated) Russian forms Smolensky (ma ...
– 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.
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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