EU helps fund new biomass plant

The European Commission has confirmed that it will subsidize the construction of a new biomass furnace for Tauron’s Jaworzno III power plant. The furnace will have a projected capacity of 50 MW, with the investment worth an estimated PLN 280 million. The EU will finance PLN 40 million towards the project. The EC’s decision was announced by the infrastructure and development ministry, Tuesday. The project includes the construction of the furnace as well as a biomass strorage and feeder facility. The furnace will burn some 350,000 metric tons of biomass annually, 80 percent of which will be forest waste, while the remaining 20 percent is composed of agricultural waste. Currently the Jaworzno III poiwer plant has nine coal-fired blocks with a combined power output of 1,535 MW. /jb