District Energy - 2011 4th Quarter

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able distributed generation. Typical systems,
business cases and key market participants
are all discussed. The study concludes that
the industrial distributed generation (IDG)
market is poised for significant growth
over the next five years and is beginning to
include new technologies, systems, business
models and service providers.

Jelgava, Latvia. These plants will provide
district heating to those towns (including
Tuusula in Finland) as well as electricity
to the grid. Scheduled to start up in mid-
2013, the plants are designed to use bio-
mass fuels including peat and some clean
recycled wood.
Also in Finland, Metso will deliver to
Kotka Energy Ltd. a biomass-fired heating
plant for the production of hot water for
the district heating network in the town-
ship of Kotka. The plant will be delivered
by the Metso-Wärtsilä joint venture MW
Power and will serve as peak-load and
reserve heating plant during the winter
season. The plant’s thermal output is
18 MW and will be fueled by locally sourced
wood chips and bark. Operation of the
plant is scheduled to begin in late 2012.
MW Power will also supply a heat
recovery steam generator for Vantaan
Energia’s new waste-to-energy plant in
Långmossebergen in Vantaa, Finland. The
heat recovery boiler will increase the over-
all efficiency of the plant, scheduled for
completion in 2014. The plant will produce
approximately 750 GWh of heat and
500 GWh of electricity per year.
In Zwickau, Germany, MW Power will
deliver a modularized biomass CHP plant
that will produce up to 10 MW of district
heat for the municipality and a maximum
of 5 MW of electricity for the power grid.
This plant, which will burn forest residues
and wood-based landscaping material, will
connect to the grid in late 2012.
In Bialystok, Poland, Metso will
convert a coal-fired boiler to a biomass-
fired bubbling fluidized bed boiler for
Elektrocieplownia Bialystock SA’s CHP
plant. The plant will partly replace the coal
fuel supply with biomass fuel primarily
from forest and agricultural residues. The
new boiler system will begin operation in
December 2012.
Covanta will design, build and operate
the approximately $250 million project to
be funded and owned by the regions of
Durham and York. The Durham York Energy
Centre, which will begin operation in 2014,
will serve as an integral component of the
comprehensive solid waste management
program of the regions of Durham and
York. The facility will process municipally
collected household waste left over after
recycling and composting efforts. When
operating at design capacity, it will be capa-
ble of producing 17. 5 MW of clean renew-
able energy. In the future, steam generated
at the facility could be utilized for district
heating in an industrial park adjacent to
the facility, heating the equivalent of 2,200
homes. Covanta notes the Durham York
Energy Centre is the first large-scale com-
mercial energy-from-waste project in North
America in more than 15 years.

Courtesy Covanta Energy.
Durham York Energy Centre
Metso Announces New
Agreements
Metso has announced the signing of
several new contracts for the delivery of
green energy technology to heating plants
in Finland, Latvia, Germany and Poland.
The company will supply boiler plants for
combined heat and power production to
Fortum Power and Heat Oy in Järvenpää,
Finland, and to Fortum Jelgava SIA in
Covanta Breaks Ground on
Ontario Project
Covanta Energy in August broke
ground on a new energy-from-waste facil-
ity in the municipality of Clarington, Ont.
ADC Awarded Saadiyat
Island Contract
Paragon ABD Cooling LLC, a joint
venture partnership between Dalkia
Utilities and Arcapita for the district cool-
ing plants concession on Saadiyat Island,
Abu Dhabi, has awarded the design-build
contract for the project to ADC Energy
Systems. ADC specializes in providing
engineering and construction solutions
for industrial and commercial cooling,
heating, refrigeration and energy systems
in the United Arab Emirates and other
Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The
project will be one of the Middle East’s
largest district cooling operations, provid-
ing a combined capacity of 50,000 tons
of refrigeration and serving a 27-sq-km
( 10.4-sq-mile) area. Two of the three cool-
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