Finnish technology company Valmet will deliver boiler conversions and emission reduction solutions for Veolia’s Hungarian subsidiary CHP-Invest Kft at its power plant in Oroszlány, Hungary.
The order includes the conversion of two coal-fired boilers to bubbling fluidized bed combustion to enable the boilers to run mainly on biomass fuel.
Valmet’s scope of delivery includes engineering, erection and commissioning of the main equipment for bubbling fluidized bed combustion including emission reduction equipment.
The order, valued at approximately EUR 25 million ($26.7 million), will see the converted boilers handed over to the customer by the second quarter of 2024.
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György Palkó, chief executive of Veolia Energia Magyarország Zrt, said: “Our company intends to include environmentally conscious solutions in all its investments, targeting a long-term solution for the sustainability of the industry.
“We are gradually converting our existing coal-fired power plants to run on more environmentally friendly and sustainable fuels.”
He added that after the recommissioning, “the Oroszlány power plant will produce more than 600 GWh of renewable electricity, making up about 1.5 percent of today’s electricity consumption in Hungary”.
According to Europe Beyond Coal, in September 2019 the president of Hungary János Áder announced that the country will stop using coal to produce electricity by 2030.
In March 2021, at the Powering Past Coal Alliance’s global summit, Hungary joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance, stating that the country would phase out coal at its last remaining lignite power plant (Matra, 884MW) by 2025.
