Fortum
About the company
Fortum is a Finnish energy company, which focuses on the production and distribution of electricity,heat and power. The head of the company is Tapio Kuula. The company sets up and operates power plants, and provides other energy and heat related services. Fortum's main market areas are the Nordic and Baltic countries, Russia and Poland.
Fortum was founded in 1998. The new energy group was established by combining the businesses of state owned Imatran Voima (IVO) and the listed company Neste Oil. IVO (founded in 1932) built and operated a number of hydroelectric, coal-fired and nuclear power plants in Finland. Neste Oil focused on the refining and transportation of petroleum products. In 2005 The Neste assets were transferred into a separate stock-listed company. Nowadays Fortum fully or partially holds more than 500 energy enterprises in different countries with 10800 employees. It is currently the only Nordic energy company registered on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI).
The company in Chelyabinsk and the Chelyabinsk region
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| Челябинская ТЭЦ-3 |
In 2004 Fortum owned 30 % of the share capital of Russian energy company Lenenergo and automatically came into the Russian energy market. In 2008 Fortum bought controlling interest in the Russian Territorial Company 10 (TGC-10) through a share auction conducted as part of the Russian power sector reform. In 2009 the company was renamed into OAO Fortum. The headquarters is situated in Chelyabinsk. Currently OAO Fortum is one of the leading energy companies in the Urals and the Western Siberia .It comprises 9 power plants, 5 of them are in the Chelyabinsk region. According to the launched investment program Fortum set up the scale development and modernization of the Chelyabinsk energy industries.
In 2009 Fortum started gradual capital improvement authorization of the equipment at the Chelyabinsk state district power plant in order to increase the reliability and efficiency of its operation. In 2010 Fortum set up an ambitious investment project “Ring”, which is aimed at the integration of Chelyabinsk’s district heating system into the technological ring around the city. The main goal of the project is to make the connection between CPH-3, the state district power plant and the north-west boiler station. Gradually this measure will lead to 30% cutdown in power spending and the absence of hot water outage. The project is to be finished in 2016.
In 2011 Fortum commissioned a new on-shore pumping station equipment at CPH-1. The station provides water consumption not only for the power plant but for a number of city plants. Besides, the company carried out capital investment of monitoring and control systems of CPH-1 and started the range of works on including CPH-1 into the ring scheme of the city’s heat supply system.
On June 7, 2011 Fortum commissioned a new power plant unit on CPH-3 and started the works on building the 7,5 km heat transport system between CPH-3 and district power station, the key element of the Ring project.
In 2012 Fortum started the construction of 2 gas turbines at the Chelyabinsk state district power station. The project completion date is 2014. Besides, the company set up the range of works on modernization of equipment (turbo generators) on CPH-2.
In summer 2013 Fortum transite pipeline between CPH-1 and CPH-2.The launch of the new pipeline will increase the amount of customers and the amount of energy produced.
Commenting on the capital improvement programs at Chelyabinsk power plants and the ambitious investment projects of Fortum the governor of the Chelyabinsk region said the following: “I am pleased with the development of our cooperation with Fortum. The building of new capacities causes the energy tax reduction by means of energy performance increase, provides new residential districts with reasonable energy taxes, creates a vast tax basis and employment opportunities for our citizens”.
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