Metso Power, a part of Metso Paper business area, will supply Keravan Lämpövoima Oy with a power boiler to the company’s new combined-heat and power plant in Kerava, near Helsinki, Finland. Start-up for the plant is scheduled for the end of 2009. The value of the order is EUR 25 million. The power boiler will utilize bubbling fluidized bed technology and will burn peat and forest residue. The power plant will produce district heat, process heat and electricity to the local energy company Keravan Energia Oy. The new plant can especially ensure the increasing capacity need of district heating to the city of Kerava. With this investment the energy production will be efficient and environmentally friendly by reducing the CO2 emissions. The new company Keravan Lämpövoima Oy, which is owned by the Finnish energy company Pohjolan Voima Oy, will build the power plant.
