OREANDA-NEWS. July 4, 2008. Within the framework of NLMK’s Phase 2 Technical Upgrading Programme, the company has signed a contract to build a new 150 MW Power Plant at its main production site in Lipetsk.

Commissioning additional power facilities will allow NLMK to increase its Lipetsk production site electrical energy self-sufficiency to 66%. At the same time blast furnace gas, a by-product of the main metallurgical production process, will be used for power generation.

The turn-key contract to commission the power plant was signed with LLC ESK Soyuz. The project is to be implemented within the next 33 months, in 2011.