Power plant manufacturer Wartsila has been awarded a contract to supply the equipment and installation for a biomass-fuelled combined heat and power plant (CHP) in the Swedish city of Halmstad. Halmstads Energi och Miljo AB, a municipal company active in the energy and environmental sectors of the community, awarded the contract to Wartsila. The biomass-fuelled power plant, named KVV-Turbingatan, will have a thermal output of 19.3MWth and an electrical output of 3.2MWe. The plant will comprise a Wartsila BioPower 5 plant using wood residue from various sources as fuel. It will deliver hot water to the district heating network of Halmstad, a city of 88,000 inhabitants. Some of the hot water will also be used by local industry. The electricity produced will be exported to the Swedish national grid. The CHP plant is due to begin supplying heat at the end of 2007 and electricity at the end of March 2008.
