Renewa to supply boiler plant expansions to Kurikan Kaukolämpö

Kurikan Kaukolämpö Oy, a district heating provider owned by the town of Kurikka and the energy company Fortum, has commissioned Renewa Oy to supply the expansions of its boiler plants at Kurikka and Ilmajoki in Finland. Renewa will deliver a new 6 MW boiler unit to each plant. The new grate boilers that utilise domestic wood-based fuel help the district heating company to considerably reduce the proportion of oil as an energy source.

Kurikan Kaukolämpö currently produces in its two plants a total of about 100 GWh of thermal energy per year. The Ilmajoki plant features a 4 MW grate boiler, and the Kurikka plant both a 6 MW fluidised bed boiler and a 5 MW grate boiler. The boiler equipment of both plants were delivered by companies that have since been merged with Renewa. Over the past few years, a lot of new customers have connected to the district heating network of Kurikan Kaukolämpö, resulting in a need for added capacity.

The new boiler plants more than double the company’s production capacity. The company aims to utilise renewable fuel originating from its own province.

“In recent times, the proportion of oil in our heat production has been unsustainably large. Thanks to the boiler expansion, we will be able to replace a lot of it with domestic renewable energy. At the Kurikka plant, the proportion of domestic fuel will increase by about 30%, and at Ilmajoki by as much as 50%,” says Pekka Haapalainen, the company’s Managing Director.

In a bidding competition, Renewa was selected as the supplier of the boiler and related equipment. According to Haapalainen, the scale was tipped in Renewa’s favour by the reasonable overall price of the company’s bid as well as the good experiences Kurikan Kaukolämpö has had with Renewa’s earlier deliveries of high-quality boiler plants.

The new boilers will be up and running at Kurikka around the turn of the year and at Ilmajoki in early 2012.

For further information, please contact:

Pekka Haapalainen, Managing Director, Kurikan Kaukolämpö Oy
Tel. +358 400 158 771, e-mail: pekka.haapalainen(at)kurikankaukolampo.fi

Tuomas Timonen, Managing Director, Renewa Oy
Tel. +358 50 386 0448, e-mail: tuomas.timonen(at)renewa.fi

Dalkia Nord selects Renewa as supplier of the new district heating plant of Lens

Renewa Oy, a Finnish company specialised in heat and power plants using biofuels for local energy production, will deliver a 22 MW boiler plant to the French energy services provider Dalkia Nord. The plant will mainly rely on local woodchips for fuel to produce steam for electricity production and heat for the district heating network of the northern French district of Lens. Dalkia selected Renewa’s solution, because the plant, based on bubbling fluidised bed technology, offers a highly adjustable combustion process and accepts a wide range of fuels while attaining a low level of emissions. The new plant will partly replace the use of natural gas in energy production for Lens, a district with a population of 350,000.

Dalkia Nord is part of Dalkia, a European energy services provider with operations in over 40 countries. It runs energy production plants on behalf of municipalities and companies, aiming to maintain them as technologically and financially efficient and environmentally friendly as possible. Dalkia provides its customers with total solutions and tailored energy efficiency services in close co-operation with its main owners, Veolia Environnement and Electricité de France (EDF).

Dalkia also co-owns STEP Suomen Teollisuuden Energiapalvelut Oy, a provider of energy services for Finnish industries, and Litesko, a Lithuanian district heating company, with both of whom Renewa also co-operates. The agreement now made with Dalkia Nord on the delivery to France paves way for Renewa’s fluidised bed technology in Central Europe.

‘We were very pleased to learn that Dalkia Nord considered our solution both the most suitable for their needs at Lens and the most economical overall. We believe this project will help us gain new ones in France and elsewhere in Europe,’ says Tuomas Timonen, Managing Director of Renewa.

The scope of Renewa’s delivery covers the boiler plant including the control system as well as the plant steel structures. Project implementation is already underway, and the plant is expected to be ready for commercial production use in late 2012.

For further information please contact:

Tuomas Timonen, Managing director, Renewa Oy
Tel.: +358 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting50 386 0448end_of_the_skype_highlighting, e-mail: tuomas.timonen@renewa.fi

Renewa Oy is a Finnish energy technology company that is growing rapidly and expanding internationally. We offer advanced combustion solutions utilising renewable fuels for local energy production. Our business sectors cover heat and power plants, boiler modernisation and retrofit services, and heat exchangers for improved energy efficiency. Renewa is a reliable long-term partner that ensures high availability and a high efficiency ratio throughout the plant’s lifecycle. Our environmental values guide our operations and projects, right from the planning stage through to implementation. www.renewa.fi

Dalkia is one of Europe's leading suppliers of energy and technical facilities services to authorities and businesses, and is a subsidiary of Veolia Environnement and Electricité de France (EDF). Since the company was founded in 1853 they have focused on energy and environmental optimization. With nearly 53 000 employees in 42 countries, Dalkia reported a managed revenue of 8.2 billion euros in 2009. For more information: www.dalkia.com

Renewa to deliver a 17.3 MW boiler plant for EBM Thermique in France

Renewa Oy, the Finnish company specialised in local heat and power plants utilising renewable fuels, has entered into an agreement on the delivery of a 17.3 MW boiler plant for EBM Thermique to the town of Saint-Louis in Alsace, France.  Once completed, the boiler plant will produce both steam for electric power generation and heat for the town’s district heating network, mainly out of wood-based fuels.  EBM Thermique selected Renewa’s plant, based on bubbling fluidised bed technology, because it offers a highly adjustable combustion process and accepts a wide range of fuels while attaining a low level of emissions.

EBM Thermique is part of EBM, a Swiss group active as a privately organised cooperative in the energy sector since 1897. EBM activities include electricity and network supply, heat, telecommunications & IT, as well as environmental and electro-installations.  As a leading player in local heat provision, EBM operates over 150 installations across Switzerland, as well as in southern Germany and eastern France, specifically in Alsace and Saint-Louis.

EBM Thermique will construct the plant building in accordance with Renewa’s master plan, and Renewa will deliver all of the plant’s machinery and equipment. The project will also include an architecture design allowing its perfect integration into the urban area. The construction will be supervised by SOTEN, an engineering company specialized in biomass cogeneration projects for over ten years.

The boiler plant will mainly rely on wood-based fuels, but other local fuel options will be surveyed as well. Corn cobs represent an important livelihood in the region, and as part of the project agreement, Renewa will examine the potential for future use of corn cobs as fuel for the plant.

“EBM Thermique developed the project jointly with the French engineering company SOTEN, with a target of reaching the highest possible local cogeneration efficiency. SOTEN will also supervise the project, whose architectural design allows it to merge well into the surrounding urban area. With a total area of only 5,000 m², the plant will probably be one of the most compact biomass cogeneration plants in relation to its energy output”, states Mr. Philippe Haffner, Project Director of SOTEN.

“For Renewa, the agreement is a significant step towards becoming more international, and it truly embodies our operating philosophy based on local fuels, local solutions and local energy. There is a growing demand in Europe for plants that generate electrical power and produce heat locally, and our boiler technology is extremely well-suited for local energy production utilising the region’s own renewable fuels,” says Tuomas Timonen, Managing Director of Renewa.

The plant will be handed over to the customer in spring 2013.

For further information, please contact:

Tuomas Timonen, Managing Director, Renewa Oy
Tel. +358 50 386 0448, e-mail: tuomas.timonen(at)renewa.fi

Renewa Oy is a Finnish energy technology company that is growing rapidly and expanding internationally. We offer advanced combustion solutions utilising renewable fuels for local energy production. Our business sectors cover heat and power plants, boiler modernisation and retrofit services, and heat exchangers for improved energy efficiency. Renewa is a reliable long-term partner that ensures a high availability and a high efficiency ratio throughout the plant’s lifecycle. Our environmental values guide our operations and projects, right from the planning stage through to implementation. www.renewa.fi

Lohjan Biolämpö orders 26 MW Renewa biofuel boiler plant

Renewa Oy and Lohjan Biolämpö Oy have signed an agreement on delivery of a major new boiler plant to Pitkäniemi industrial area in Lohja, Finland. In addition to this 26 MW biomass-fired boiler, Renewa will also supply two 13 MW natural gas boilers to provide backup power. The new installation on the site of the Finnforest Kerto plant will generate steam for the industrial plant, while also supporting the local district heating network in the town of Lohja. The project will result in a long-term environmentally friendly energy system.

The company established for this project, Lohjan Biolämpö Oy, is owned by Lohjan Energiahuolto Oy Loher, the Metsäliitto Group and Ääneseudun Energia Oy. Due for completion in autumn 2012, the new heating plant will use biofuel from the Pitkäniemi industrial area, mainly comprising timber-based by-products, wood chips and other clean timber from the Kerto plant of Metsäliitto Wood Products Industry. The natural gas-fired boilers of the backup power plant will be constructed at the same time.

“We are seeking an energy solution that is environmentally sustainable and based on local biomass. The location of the new facility on the same site as the manufacturing plant providing the fuel will also considerably reduce fuel transportation and the resulting environmental emissions. Discontinuing the use of increasingly expensive coal power will also help to reduce energy costs. The total output of the new plant will be about 200 GWh per year, which will cover the energy requirements of its owners,” explains Kari Liski, Managing Director of Lohjan Biolämpö Oy.

Lohjan Energiahuolto Oy Loher will derive about half of its future urban heating requirements from the new plant.

“The principal benefit of this project for us will be reliable generating capacity to ensure district heating supplies for local residents. It will also bring a huge reduction in the environmental impacts of our energy production, because the use of biomass will reduce our carbon dioxide emissions by 80 per cent compared to current levels. Heating energy supply costs will also decrease, enabling us to provide cheaper district heating to our customers,” explains Loher Managing Director Markus Tamminen.

Renewa was chosen to deliver the project after a thorough competitive tendering process. The company specialises in advanced combustion solutions utilising renewable fuels for local heat and power production.  The factors that tipped the balance in Renewa’s favour were its solid experience in plants of this size and its excellent references for similar installations based on combustion of industrial by-products.

Renewa will implement the Lohja heating plant project as an EPC delivery. The project schedule is brisk – the boiler installations will begin early next year and final handover to the customer will take place in October 2012.

For further information please contact:

Tuomas Timonen, Managing director, Renewa Oy
Tel.: +358 50 386 0448, e-mail: tuomas.timonen(at)renewa.fi

Kari Liski, Managing director, Lohjan Biolämpö Oy
Tel: +358 50 598 8000, e-mail: kari.liski(at)finnforest.com

Markus Tamminen, Managing director, Lohjan Energiapalvelut Oy Loher
Tel: +358 50 360 8039, e-mail: markus.tamminen(at)loher.fi

Renewa supplies 20 MW steam boiler plant to Harjavalta

Renewa Oy and Suomen Teollisuuden Energiapalvelut – STEP Oy and have signed an agreement on a 20 MW steam boiler plant to Harjavalta Industrial Park. The new boiler plant is part of a larger project ensuring future energy supplies for industrial operations at the site. It will support a planned biomass power plant and provide additional capacity for periods of peak demand.

The new boiler plant will produce steam at a rate of 25 tonnes per hour using technology that complies with current and future EU directives on emissions. This heavy fuel oil-fired plant will be equipped with a low-NOx oil burner and efficient flue gas cleaning systems.

The new boiler plant will be installed next to the existing power plant. Manufacturing has already been started at the Renewa and installation work is due to begin on site in August. The boiler plant will be commissioned in December 2011.

Part of Pori Energia, Suomen Teollisuuden Energiapalvelut – STEP Oy  is responsible for providing energy services to customers operating in the Harjavalta Industrial Park. STEP supplies on-site industrial customers with steam and process heating recovered from industrial processes and generated at the power plant, and also provides district heating to the nearby town of Harjavalta. The total output of its operations is more than 600 GWh per year.

Renewa has already collaborated for several years with STEP and Pori Energia, providing larger scale power plant maintenance work – initially at Aittaluoto in Pori and subsequently also at Harjavalta in boiler renovation and other projects.

For further information please contact:

Managing director Tomi Ihalainen, Suomen Teollisuuden Energiapalvelut – STEP Oy
Tel.: +358 44 701 2315, e-mail: tomi.ihalainen@stepenergy.fi

Managing director Tuomas Timonen, Renewa Oy
Tel. +358 50 386 0448, e-mail: tuomas.timonen@renewa.fi

Renewa's debut on the Western European market

Renewa supplies biofuel boiler facility for heat and power generating at French Carbonex plant

The wood coal manufacturer Carbonex SARL has ordered a 15 MW biofuel boiler from Renewa for industrial heat and power generating at a plant in north-eastern France. Renewa will supply a fluidised bed boiler and associated flue gas scrubbing systems. The deal is Renewa’s first delivery to the Western European market.

Carbonex will fuel the boiler with wood chips to generate electric power for French electric network, while also using the boiler to recover surplus heat from the industrial process.

The boiler installation will be made at the Renewa workshops in Oulu and Lapua for a shipment in summer 2011 to the Carbonex plant in Champagne.

“We are seeking to integrate the power plant into our innovative manufacturing process and make use of locally available wood fuel,” explains Carbonex R&D Director Pierre Soler-My. “We chose Renewa to supply our boiler installation, because its combustion technology is suitable for various fuels and Renewa’s flexible approach allows optimal use of local expertise.”

”The Carbonex delivery represents an important debut by Renewa on the Western European market, which has considerable potential for our products,” explains Renewa Managing Director Tuomas Timonen. “Our boiler technology is ideal for local energy generating based on the region’s typically available renewable fuels, such as olive stones and vine cuttings.”

Demand for local cogenerating facilities is growing particularly rapidly in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, with many countries now publicly subsidising conversion to biofuel-fired installations. These policies are also boosted by a European Union commitment to energy generating based on renewable sources, coupled with electricity generating feed-in tariffs and investment subsidies for facility construction in various countries.

For further information please contact:
Managing director Tuomas Timonen, Renewa Oy
Tel. +358 50 386 0448, e-mail: tuomas.timonen(at)renewa.fi