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