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16 January 2007 - Power plant manufacturer Wärtsilä has been awarded a contract to supply the equipment and installation for a biomass-fuelled combined heat and power plant (CHP) in the Swedish city of Halmstad.
Halmstads Energi och Miljö AB (HEM), a municipal company active in the energy and environmental sectors of the community, awarded the contract to Wartsila. The biomass-fuelled power plant, named KVV-Turbingatan, will have a thermal output of 19.3 MWth and an electrical output of 3.2 MWe.
The CHP plant is due to begin supplying heat at the end of 2007 and electricity at the end of March 2008.
The plant will comprise a Wärtsilä BioPower 5 plant using wood residue from various sources as fuel. It will deliver hot water to the district heating network of Halmstad, a city of 88,000 inhabitants. Some of the hot water will also be used by local industry. The electricity produced will be exported to the Swedish national grid.
"We look forward to working with such an experienced supplier as Wärtsilä on the construction of this biomass-fuelled plant, which marks an important continuation of HEM's aim of reducing fossil fuel usage," says Peder Hörup, Project Manager at Halmstad Energi och Miljö AB.
This is the fourth combined heat and power installation contracted in Sweden using Wärtsilä BioPower's BP5 plant concept. The other BP5 plants are in Trollhättan, Mark and Motala. A biomass-fuelled plant of the BP2 type is operating in Tranås.
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