Tricon and Suvic will construct a waste-heat-to-energy power plant for Fortum’s district heating system in Kirkkonummi
September 21 2023 - 2:00AM
Tricon and Suvic will construct a waste-heat-to-energy power plant
for Fortum’s district heating system in Kirkkonummi
Dovre Group
Plc Press
release September
21, 2023, at 10 am
Tricon and Suvic will construct a
waste-heat-to-energy power plant for Fortum’s district heating
system in Kirkkonummi
A Working Association of Tricon Oy and Suvic Oy
will build a waste heat power plant in the data center area of
Kirkkonummi. The work will consist of constructing the buildings
required for waste heat capture, the foundations of the
heat-sink-battery and the pumping facilities. The power plant will
provide energy to Fortum’s district heating system in
Kirkkonummi.
The power plant, which is using the excess heat
generated by the Kirkkonummi data center as well as heat from the
surrounding air will consist of a heat capturing facility with heat
exchangers, air-to-water heat pumps and electric boilers, as well
as a 20 000 cubic meter of water heat-sink-battery and associated
pumping facility. The Working Association Tricon-Suvic is the main
contractor of the project and is responsible for construction of
the buildings, heat-sink-battery foundations and constructing the
pumping station. The principal of the work is Fortum Power and Heat
Oy. The work will commence in autumn 2023 and will continue until
the end of 2025.
“The scale of magnitude of this
waste-heat-to-energy conversion is unique not only in Finland but
also around the world. The project supplements perfectly Suvic’s
carbon-neutral energy construction and design offering for its
clients, which previously already included both EPC construction of
infrastructure for windfarms and EPC construction of industrial
scale solar parks”, states Suvic’s CEO Mr. Ville
Vesanen about this large-scale project.
The heat-sink-battery acts as a buffer for the
district heating system. The water in the battery system can be
heated with waste heat from the data center, but also independently
with air-to-water heat pumps and direct electric heating. Reusing
waste heat has a large environmental benefit, because it alone will
provide a large portion of the energy required by Fortum’s district
heating system in the area. The power plant is planned to provide
heat from the winter 2025-2026 onwards.
“Fortum has made a pledge to stop using coal in
the production of district heat at the latest by the end of 2025 in
the Espoo, Kauniainen and Kirkkonummi district systems. The project
is important locally, but also countrywide in our journey to a
carbon-neutral Finland”, explains the project manager
Mr. Teemu Nieminen of Fortum’s
heating and cooling business area.
Suvic has been designing and planning the required
work for almost a year now in good co-operation with Tricon Oy.
”The physical work will commence in Kirkkonummi in September 2023
and we will be ready for equipment installations in December 2024”,
states the project manager of Working Association
Mr. Jukka Kallio from Suvic.
The managing director of Tricon Oy
Mr. Jukka Siltanen is eagerly
waiting for the work to start in the Kirkkonummi Kolabacken area.
”This is a unique opportunity, since re-cycling waste heat will
advance our national environmental goals. Re-cycling data center
waste heat around the country can contribute several percentage
points towards the CO2 reduction target of Finland”.
For further information, please contact:
Ville Vesanen CEO, Suvic Oy Tel.
+358 44 328 9928 vve@suvic.fi, www.suvic.fi
Ilari Koskelo Vice Chairman of the Board,
Dovre Group Plc Tel. +358 40 510 8408
ilari.koskelo@navdata.fi
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Suvic Oy is a construction
company founded in Oulu in 2017, specializing in the implementation
and project management of wind farms. The company also offers
contracting services for energy and industrial construction. Suvic
brings new, innovative practices to the field of energy
construction through design, construction and project management.
The company's current sites include Valrea's Kalistanneva and
Matkussaari wind farms (Kurikka), Exilion Tuuli's
Isokangas-Palokangas wind farms (Ii), Prime Capital's Lappfjärd
wind farm extension (Kristiinankaupunki), Prime Capital's Sandbacka
wind farm (Uusikaarlepyy and Vöyri) and CPC Finland's Lakari solar
power plant.
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