Moscow, 25 February 2004. The ceremony will also be attended by the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian President to the Urals Federal Okrug Petr Latyshev and Tyumen Region Governor Sergey Sobyanin.

CCGT-220 of Tyumenskaya CHPP-1 is the second large combined-cycle turbine unit is Russia, after North-West CHPP in St.-Petersburg.

The commissioning of the new generating unit into service will help reduce the fuel consumption required for heat and electricity generation, increase reliability of electricity and heat supply to consumers in Tyumen, and stabilize the energy tariffs in Tyumen Region.