Finnish energy firm Fortum has opened a €130m combined heat and power plant (CHP) in the city of Klaipeda, Lithuania.
The new power plant will use municipal and industrial waste as well as biomass to provide district heating to residents and businesses in Klaipeda, and electricity to the Lithuanian power grid.
The project will have the capacity to generate about 60MW of heat and around 20MW of electricity.
In addition, the plant is equipped with flue-gas condensers that allow the recovery of an additional 15MW of heat at peak demand times.
The power plant will replace old natural gas-fired heat production in Klaipeda and reduce CO2 emissions by about 100,000 tonnes per annum.