BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 4
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
The Uniper Group’s legally attributable generation capacity (the capacity that reflects Uniper’s ownership interest in the power plants) increased to 33,548 MW as of December 31, 2020 or 3.2 percent (1,051 MW) above that of the previous year (32,497 MW), Trend reports citing Uniper.
The growth in generation capacity is mainly due to the commissioning of the Datteln 4 coal-fired power station in Germany in May 2020 and capacity increases at the Surgutskaya gas-fired power station units in Russia and Enfield in the UK. The sale of a generation unit in the Czech Republic (11 MW) on April 28, 2020 and the reduction in capacity at the Grain power station units in the UK had a counteracting effect on generation capacity.
At 35,400 MW, fully consolidated power plant output was 3.1 percent (1,055 MW) above the previous year’s level of 34,345 MW. The increase in capacity is also due to the changes mentioned above in connection with the commissioning of Datteln 4 and the capacity adjustments in Russia and the UK.
In the 2020 fiscal year, the volume of power generated by our own power plants amounted to 95.2 billion kWh, a noticeable decline of 8.8 billion kWh (8.5 percent) from the prior year’s figure of 104.0 billion kWh. Purchased power decreased by 48.8 billion kWh, or 9.9 percent, from 494.5 billion kWh to 445.7 billion kWh.
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