Empower To Build Second Stage of Important Elering Substation in Ida-Virumaa

Last week, Elering signed a contract with Empower AS to build the second stage of a 330-kilovolt substation near the Eesti Power Plant in Ida-Virumaa, with the project expected to cost 9.1 million euros excluding VAT.

Empower made the lowest tender on the public procurement to find a company to carry out the project. Altogether, five tenders were submitted to the procurement.

“The second stage of the substation at the Eesti Power Plant is important for Elering due to the fact that once it is finished, dependence on the neighbouring Eesti Power Plant will decrease and the security of supply will increase throughout the country,” commented Elering’s Chairman of the Board, Taavi Veskimägi. After the second part of the substation is finished, Estonia’s main network will be able to work even if there is not a single energy block operating in any of Narva’s power plants.

The second stage of the Eesti Power Plant substation is the biggest single investment for Elering this year. The second stage of the substation will be built from scratch on an empty site. Construction work starts in May, and the contractor will hand over the object to Elering in the spring of 2017.

Reconstruction work on the first stage of the 330-kilovolt substation of the Eesti Power Station took place from 2011 to 2013. Empower was the contractor on that project as well.