OREANDA-NEWS. An official ceremony was held to bring Power Unit 2 on line at the Chelyabinskaya CHPP-3.

The new power unit at the Chelyabinskaya CHPP-3 will help improve the reliability of power supply to households and industrial consumers in the region. The unit has a capacity of 180 MW of electricity and 260 Gcal/h of heat.

The new unit will double the power plant's electric capacity to 3 billion KWh yearly and increase heat generation by one third.

During that year, a decision was made to complete the construction of the power plant's second unit. OAO "TGC-10" allocated RUB2 billion in own funds and borrowings to finance the project.