Metso to Supply Biomass Power Plant to Estonian Energy Group
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Metso, Finland, reports that it will supply Oü Helme Energia with a biomass power plant for combined heat and power production (CHP) in the township of Helme in Estonia. The power plant will be delivered by the Metso-Wärtsilä joint venture MW Power. The delivery scope includes a plant automation system, which will be delivered by Metso's Automation business line. The value of the order is over EUR 15 million. Startup of the plant is scheduled for the third quarter of 2012.
The biomass power plant will utilize bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) technology and will use a combination of spruce bark, chipped logging residues and wood chips, or milled peat as the main fuels. The plant will produce 15 MW of heat and 6.4 MW of electricity, which will partly be utilized in the customer's own pellet factory and the rest will be distributed onto the national grid.
Oü Helme Energia is a subsidiary of AS Graanul Invest, a private capital based company dealing with bioenergy and renewable energy production. Today AS Graanul Invest is the biggest producer of pellets in the Baltics and with its high production volumes counts among the top five European producers.
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