EVN Bulgaria invests 12 mln euro in Plovdiv boiler capacity overhaul

The company's wholly-owned subsidiary, EVN Toplofikatsia, installed five new water-heating boilers used for generating heating energy for 31,000 retail and wholesale consumers in Plovdiv, EVN Bulgaria said in a press release on Tuesday.

"The new boilers mean greater security for the central heating supply of Plovdiv, but they also mean cleaner air for the people of Plovdiv," EVN Bulgaria chairman Alexander Sipek said.

The heating company, which started the renovation project in 2019, has installed two boilers in its HP South facility and three more at its thermal power plant TPP North, for a combined capacity of 100 MW. The boilers, along with five 25-metre chimneys, were delivered by the Robert Bosch plant in Germany and run on natural gas, with industrial gas oil now used as back-up fuel instead of the previously used fuel oil, thus reducing environmental effects.

The facilities are designed to cover peak demand and are operated flexibly, with short periods of switching on and off, ensuring continuity of heating energy supplies for EVN Toplofikatsia clients.

EVN Bulgaria, which operates a 200-km energy grid in southeastern Bulgaria, has invested over 240 million levs in improving Plovdiv's central heating infrastructure since 2007.

(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)