Unipro (company)

Unipro (АО Юнипро, former names: E.ON Russia, The Fourth Generation Company of the Wholesale Electricity Market or OGK-4) is a Russian power generation company formed by the merger of five generation companies. 83.73% of the company is owned by the German energy company Uniper, and the rest of the shares are owned by minority shareholders.^[3] Till 2023, General Director — Maxim Shirokov,^[4] from April 2023 - Vasily Nikonov,^[5] from February 2026 - Ruslan Lidzar. ^[6]

Unipro was founded in 2006 with the merger of the following power plants:

• Surgut-2 Power Station – 5,600 MW,
• Berezovskaya GRES – 1,550 MW
• Shatura Power Station – 1,500 MW
• Smolenskaya GRES – 630 MW
• Yajvinskaya GRES – 1,016 MW

The installed capacity of all five thermal power plants is about 10,296 MW, which comprises about 5% of the generating capacity of RAO UES.

The output of the Unipro power plants in 2007 was approximately 54.5 TWh. According to the current investment program, plans are in place to increase the original capacity of the power plants by 9.03 GW to more than 11 GW by 2011, with spending on these purposes totaling US$2.89 billion.^[7]

In April 2023, the Russian Federal Agency for State Property Management took temporary control of assets belonging to Unipro in retaliation for the seizure of Russian assets abroad.^[2]

Electricity generation by power plants belonging to the company:^[8]

• Official website