The Turku region’s energy consortium TSE confirmed plans to replace a 50-year-old coal plant in Naantali with a multi-fuel facility that can be fuelled by 100% biomass and waste, reports Bioenergy News.
The facility is expected to burn up to 1.2 million m3 of chips annually. Construction is scheduled to begin in spring 2015, with production at the combined heat and power plant set to start in late 2017.
At present, TSE is looking into whether the plant can run using purely biofuel. If so, it says, some will need to be imported.
