Unipro (company)


Unipro 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. Till 2023, General Director — Maxim Shirokov, from April 2023 - Vasily Nikonov.

History and operations

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

Performance indicators

Electricity generation by power plants belonging to the company:
Electricity generation, million kWh2010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022
Surgut State Regional Power Plant-236 62338 82939 96739 85037 88632 83635 74631 96330 43730 189,727 09728 41430 414
Berezovskaya State Regional Power Plant9 28811 08210 73810 0209 0498 9717 0576 4585 4956 4924 3394 50410 941
Shatura State Regional Power Plant4 1125 8935 1855 3114 9694 8995 3063 8494 6694 137,24 4996 2246 507
Smolenskaya State Regional Power Plant1 9281 8091 9662 0301 7131 9501 5571 5001 5121 3871 45019671 465
Yayvinskaya State Regional Power Plant3 8404 8546 3455 7845 6215 1114 8644 4734 5364 227,44 3624 1254 626
Unipro55 79162 46764 20262 99559 23853 76654 53048 24346 64946 43341 74645 23453 955