Csepel III

Preliminary design

Alpiq Csepel Business is planning to build Csepel III Power Station Unit on the brown site of Csepel I in the place of plant items that were decommissioned earlier.

Csepel III Unit

The Power Station Unit will apply the most advanced technology available. Planned capacity is 430 MWe which will meet the energy demand of some 70 - 80,000 households. In addition, Csepel Power Station will provide district heat for another 20,000 homes after the construction of the new Unit.

The plan is to start construction of the Power Station Unit in 2013, and commercial operation can begin in 2015. The Project will create about 300-500 new jobs in the construction stage.

The environmentally friendly combined-cycle technology Power Station Unit fuelled with natural gas will efficiently contribute to meeting the increasing electricity demand of Hungary and will also improve the level of energy safety of the region.

Site description

Csepel III Power Station Unit is planned next to Csepel II Unit, on the plant site of Csepel I. Alpiq Csepel Business acquired the Csepel Power Station complex in 2002. The primary goal is to extend existing plant facilities, and the required site is available mainly in the place of decommissioned plant items of Csepel I.

Csepel II Station has been operating on the same site since 2000. Csepel II generates power and supplies district heat to the districts of Csepel and Pesterzsébet. The new plant will be built inside the existing industrial area as a so-called brown-field project without using any green field.