Narva Elektrijaamad (Narva Power Plants), a subsidiary of the Estonian power utility Eesti Energia, has announced a tender to design and build a new oil shale-fired thermal power plant near the north-eastern city of Narva.
The autonomous thermal power plant to be built on free land of the existing Estonian Power Plant and in its immediate vicinity is to have one or two energy units with a capacity of 300 or 400 megawatts, it appears from the tender announcement.
One unit consists of two boilers and one turbine. As an alternative, bidders also can put in an offer for mono-units of one boiler and one turbine.
According to the tender conditions, applicants for tender documents are required to have had average net turnover of at least three billion euros in the last three business years.
The company reserves the right to cancel the construction of one generating unit within about one year of the signing of the contract. The first unit is supposed to be completed in 2015.
The planned starting date of the tender is 30 June 2010 and the planned end date 4 March 2015.
Applications for participation in the tender will be accepted until 17 September.
Eesti Energia CEO Sandor Liive has earlier said that the new energy units will cost 800 million euros.
The two generating units built at the Narva-based power plants in the middle of this decade cost 250 million euros.
Source: Estonian Review
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