NLMK intends to increase 1.5-fold the output of its own electricity having constructed a heat electric generation plant at its Lipetsk site operating on the secondary fuel gas (wastes of metal manufacture).
The cost of the project is 35 billion rubles.
The plant will use the gas that is created when smelting pig iron in blast furnaces (blast furnace gas) and steel in converters (converter gas).
The electricity capacity of NLMK is now 522 mW (three plants on secondary gas).
In 2017 NLMK increased electricity consumption by 2.6%, to 12.1 billion kW-h. (Ukrainian metal)