Estonia: Narva ash field wind park to cost EUR 57.7 mln to build
Estonian news - etea June 18, 2010
TALLINN, Jun 17, BNS – The supervisory board of Eesti Energia approved an investment decision on Thursday according to which the Estonian state-owned power group will set up a 39 megawatt wind park on a former ash field near Narva at a cost of 900 million kroons (EUR 57.5 mln).
In all 17 wind generators will start producing electricity on Ash Field No 2 of the Balti power plant, which was closed and covered with greenery last year, in 2012, Eesti Energia said.
The construction agreement with the company Enercon, winner of the turnkey procurement to build the wind park, will be signed during the summer.
The wind park’s 2.3 megawatt generators are to be put up during 2011 and the wind park will give an output of 90 gigawatt-hours of electricity annually.
With the launch of the Narva wind park the amount of electricity generated by Eesti Energia using wind power will double, said Ando Leppiman, chief of renewable generation at Eesti Energia. The park’s output covers the annual consumption of 35,000 average Estonian households.
Eesti Energia also is conducting a procurement at this point to build a wind park near Paldiski on Pakri Peninsula, where the construction agreement is expected to be signed this fall. Besides, the company is planning to build a wind park at Auvere in the territory of the Vaivara rural municipality in Estonia’s northeast and offshore generating capacities in the Gulf of Riga.
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