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NLMK to Add New Power Plant at Lipetsk
07/08/2008 - NLMK signs contract for a new 150-MW power plant at its main production site in Lipetsk.
NLMK has signed a contract to build a new 150-MW power plant at its main production site in Lipetsk.
Commissioning additional power facilities will allow NLMK to increase the Lipetsk production site’s electrical-energy self-sufficiency to 66%. The facility will also use off-gas from its blast furnace for power generation.
The turn-key contract to commission the power plant was signed with LLC ESK Soyuz. The project is to be implemented within the next 33 months, in 2011.
NLMK is adding the new power plant as part of its Phase 2 Technical Upgrading Programme. The program provides for a growth in steel output to 22 million tonnes by 2015, as well as an expansion of flats products output to 6.9 million tonnes, and bar and pipes output to 5.9 million tonnes.
To satisfy the demand for energy at the main production site in Lipetsk, facilities will be expanded to increase self-sufficiency from 37% in 2005 to 60% in 2011. Total investment capex into the development of power facilities at the main production site will amount to USD 0.3 billion.
In 2006, NLMK commissioned a turbogenerator with a design capacity of 25 MW at its co-generation plant in Lipetsk. Optimization of the co-generation plant loading system and extension of generating facilities increased the level of self-sufficiency to 43%.
