OREANDA-NEWS. February 10, 2010. Eesti Energia Narva Elektrijaamad made a decision to install desulphurization equipment on additional two energy units. The total cost of the investment will be about 100 million euros, reported the press-centre of Eesti Energia.

According to the agreement signed in March 2009 between Eesti Energia Narva Elektrijaamad AS and Alstom Estonia AS & Alstom Power Sweden AB, two units at Eesti power plant will be equipped with devices that will remove sulphur emissions (SO2) from the flue gases. The company reserved the option of deciding by 31 January 2010 to install desulphurization on an additional two energy units at Eesti power plant.

“This agreement is an important step in making electricity generation from oil shale more environmentally friendly and ensures that we will be able to use our production capacities in the future as well,” said director of Eesti Energia Narva Elektrijaamad Ilmar Petersen. “For this purpose we decided to install by 2012, when the sulphur emission standards become more stringent, desulphurization (deSOx) equipment on a total of four units at Eesti power plant.”

The first units to be equipped with desulphurization are unit no. 3 and 6. Construction began to be prepared at unit no. 3 back in autumn 2009 and in February the unit’s operations will be suspended for installing desulphurization equipment. The installation work will be completed in February 2011 and the equipment will be launched. On unit no. 6, work will begin in August 2010 and after a year’s time, in August 2011, the work will reach the home stretch.

Installation work will begin to be performed on unit no. 4 and 5 in January and April 2011, respectively. Thus by 2012, the desulphurization project will be completed.