Fortum to build power plant in Zabrze worth €200 mln

Finland's  Fortum will construct a co-generation power plant in Zabrze (Upper Silesia), the investment is valued at €200 million (roughly PLN 870 million), the energy company informed.

As many as 70,000 households in Zabrze and Bytom will be provided with the energy produced by the new plant, which will be supplied with RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel) and biomass. Estimated annual output is to amount to 730 GWh of heat and 550 GWh of electric energy.

The construction is to launch yet this year and the investment is expected to be completed in 2018.

The new plant will replace two existing coal-fuelled units.

Fortum has been operating in Poland since 2003, it owns four heat and power plants in Bytom, Częstochowa, Świebodzice and Zabrze.