ALSTOM signed a contract with Estonia’s state electricity provider, EESTI ENERGIA, to install a 2x300 MW power plant based on Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) boiler technology. The power plant is fueled with local oil shale.A first 300 MW unit and a second identical optional one are included in the contract.The Auvere power plant is located next to the Eesti Elektrijaam, the largest oil shale thermal fired power plant in the world with a full capacity of 1615 MW.The complex is owned and operated by AS Narva Elektrijaamad, a subsidiary of EESTI ENERGIA, which also owns the “Balti Elektrijaam” next to Narva city.

In this power plant, FERBECK has been awarded an EPC contract of a 200 meter-high-concrete chimney by ALSTOM.