TSE to build multi-fuel facility in Finland

The Turku region of Finland is investing over $350 million (€253 million) in a plant that will run mainly on local wood chips.

TSE, the Turku region's energy consortium, will replace a 50-year-old coal plant in Naantali with a multi-fuel facility, fuelled by 100% biomass and waste.

The facility is expected to burn between 915,000 and 1.57 million cubic yards per year of chips.

Construction will begin in spring 2015, with production at the combined heat and power plant set to start in late 2017.

TSE is currently looking into whether the plant can run using purely biofuel and, if so, will need to import some.