Thursday, November 8, 2012

Finland's 3rd Biggest Coal User Plans Change

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-07/helsingin-energia-may-replace-40-of-coal-with-biomass-at-plants.html
Helsingin Energia, Finland’s third- biggest coal user, may replace as much as 40 percent of its coal with wood pellets at two plants in the next eight years to limit carbon emissions and boost renewable energy output.
Helsingin Energia, the country’s biggest municipal utility, strives to find an “optimal fuel mix” for replacing 5 to 10 percent of coal use by co-firing 100,000 metric tons of wood pellets annually starting 2014, and possibly 40 percent by 2020, after tests which are taking place through April, it said today in an e-mailed statement.