Fortum is building a new 140 million EUR combined heat and power plant in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Purchasing of main equipment has been now agreed and the power plant will be completed for production by January 2013.

The plant will use municipal and industrial wastes and biomass as fuels, and will have a capacity of approximately 50 MW heat and 20 MW electricity. The district heating will be sold to Klaipedos Energija and the electricity will be sold to the national grid.

Heat production of the plant will replace production in old natural gas fired heating plants of Klaipedos Energija. In addition, the CO2 emissions of the heat production in the area will reduce significantly.

The plant is the first waste-to-energy plant in the Baltic countries and will be an essential element in waste management of the Klaipeda region significantly reducing the need to deposit wastes in the landfill.

[source: Fortum]