Wärtsilä has been responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)-delivery of the plant and for the project management.
The new Smart Power Generation power plant will be activated when there is a failure in the grid or in other power plants serving the grid.
The capacity will be sufficient to meet the one-sixth of Estonia’s peak electricity consumption in the winter while providing a significant improvement to the country’s energy security.
Wärtsilä quality vice president Vesa Riihimäki said: "This is an important EPC-project for Wärtsilä in the European context.
"We are also proud of the fact that this is the first dynamic grid stability plant to have been primary tested to fulfil the new reliability requirements by the European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E)."
Featuring agile internal combustion engine (ICE) technology, the Elering-owned emergency reserve power plant can be started and ramped to its full load of 250MW in less than 10 minutes.
Additional features of the power station include 27 Wärtsilä 34DF engines, which operate mainly on natural gas but can switch to light fuel oil as a back-up fuel.
