New biopower plant to be built at the Kemira factory site in Pori

Porin Prosessivoima Oy, a subsidiary of Pohjolan Voima, has decided to build a new biopower plant in Pori, at the Kaanaa factory site of Kemira Pigments Oy. The plant will burn wood fuel, peat, coal and recycled fuels.

The new power plant further strengthens the energy co-operation between Kemira, the City of Pori and Pohjolan Voima. In 2005, Porin Prosessivoima acquired the power plant at the Pori factory of Kemira Pigments. The co-operation between the parties helps to reduce environmental impact of energy production and the joint investment provides a supply of reasonably priced energy.  

The capacity of the new power plant is 65 MW of electricty, 140 MW of steam and 70 MW of district heat. The energy is delivered to Kemira, for the purposes of industrial processes in Kaanaa and Pihlava, and to the City of Pori for district heating of the downtown and Meri-Pori areas. The total investment amounts to approximately 140 million euros.

The project has been granted an environmental permit.  The detailed engineering and preparation of the building site will start immediately. The power plant will be completed by the end of 2008.

In addition to a new boiler utilising circulating fluidized bed combustion technology and a district heating back-pressure turbine, the investment includes a district heat transfer pipe to Pori and steam transfer pipe to the Pihlava factory site. The power plant will facilitate the production increase of Kemira Pigments at Pori and reduce the use of oil in industry and district heat production. After the completion of the investment, outdated capacity with a lower efficiency owned by Pori Energia will be taken out of operation at the Pihlava and Aittaluoto factory sites. 

The new power plant is a part of Pohjolan Voima's biofuel programme which has as its objective the increased use of renewable energy by utilising local biofuel resources efficiently.