In a release, Fortum said the unit had operated for 72 hours at maximum load during the tests. Following the comprehensive tests, the plant commenced certification tests to confirm the unit’s technical parameters, said Fortum.
Fortum said it plans to start commercial operation of the unit by the end of 2014. Capacity payments under the Russian government’s Capacity Supply Agreement (CSA) for 418 megawatts (MW) are scheduled to start as of January 1, 2015.
According to Fortum, installation of the unit was finalised 15 months ahead of the CSA-projected schedule.
The energy company Fortum's headquarters are in Espoo, Finland on a foggy morning 12 December 2013 Fortum to sell its Finnish electricity grid. The buyer is a Finnish Power Networks, whose shareholders are the two international infrastructure investment company, as well as two Finnish pension insurance companies. ||| The headquarters of Fortum, the largest electricity distribution operator in the Nordic region, pictured in Espoo, Finland, on a foggy morning of December 12, 2013, Fortum is to sell its power grid in Finland to a consortium led by First State and Borealis for 2.55 billion euros ($ 3.5 billion) as it looks to focus more on power and heat generation. Fortum ia also preparing for a possible sale of its Swedish and Norwegian grid businesses. Photo - Lehtikuva.
The construction of the power plant began in 2008. The Nyagan 1 has been in commercial operation since April 1, 2013 and Nyagan 2 since December 1, 2013.
Fortum said the Nyagan Power Plant located in the oil- and gas-rich Russian Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Region in Western Siberia has now been successfully completed.
The company said the completion of the Nyagan project demonstrates its commitment to fulfil its extensive 2,500-MW investment program that will have nearly doubled the company’s power generation capacity in Russia once finalised in 2015.
Fortum produces and sells electricity and heat in the developed industrial areas of the Urals and in the oil- and gas-producing regions of Western Siberia and has approximately 4,200 employees in Russia.
