Tampereen Energiatuotanto’s Hervanta woodchip-fired heating plant – totally genuine local heat

Tampereen Energiatuotanto Oy’s new heating plant located in Hervanta area of Tampere is fired by wood chips and peat. The plant will reduce the need to use heavy-fuel-oil-fired heating plants, thus lowering the carbon-dioxide emissions generated in district heat production. The plant will serve as a base-load power plant annexed to Tampere's district heating grid and it will primarily serve the Hervanta area. In the heating plant solution, special attention has been paid to reducing noise and emissions through noise suppression technology, machinery choices, a triple-field electrostatic precipitator and a flue-gas scrubber, among other things. The plant will be operated remotely from a control room in Lielahti using a Valmet automation system. The new wood-chip plant began producing heat in May 2015.