Biomass-based power comes to Germany
18 Feb 2002
Foster Wheeler Ltd.'s Finnish-based subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Energia Oy, has been awarded three power plant projects in Germany in the wake of the country's modified bioenergy legislation, introduced in May 2001.
The value of the projects is approximately $70 million and each will use Foster Wheeler's circulating fluidised-bed (CFB) boiler technology applied to biomass-based power generation.
A 20 MWe turnkey biomass-fired power plant has been awarded by German-based MVV Energie AG. The plant will be located at Konigs Wusterhausen, near Berlin, and is scheduled for completion in mid-2003.
Foster Wheeler was also awarded a contract by Prokon Nord Energiesysteme for a 63 MWt CFB unit at Papenburg. The plant, which is scheduled for completion in fall 2003, will primarily supply industrial customers and will also generate 20 MWe of electricity.
In addition, Foster Wheeler was selected by Heizkraftwerk Kehl, majority owned by a subsidiary of Germany's second-largest utility, RWE, to supply a turnkey 44 MWt CFB boiler plant. This unit, scheduled for completion in early 2003, will be part of a plant supplying electricity to the national grid and process steam to the Kohler paper mill in Kehl.
