“We can state already that Fortum Klaipėda, just as planned, will launch commercial operations at the end of this month,” Vitalijus Zuta, Fortum Heat Lietuva CEO, said in a press release.
The facility has been tested since the end of January. However, it has only been generating heat until now.
As estimated, the new CHP facility with a capacity of 50 MW of heat and 20 MW of electricity, will supply about 40 percent of the port city's energy needs. Heat generated by the facility, which burns industrial and household waste and biofuel, will be sold to Klaipėdos Energija (Klaipėda Energy), the supplier of heat to Lithuania‘s third-biggest city.
Fortum Heat Lietuva owns 90 percent of shares in Fortum Klaipėda, and Klaipėdos Energija owns the remaining 10 percent.
