Period of installation: 1998 with a availability of 97.5%
Total costs: 12,000,000 Euro (by the Thermie program of EU))
Description of site: The Kymiarvi power plant is a pulverized coal fired steam plant that generates up to 167 MWe of electricity and 240 MWth of district heat production. Starting in 1998 a CFB gasifier began operation on a recycled fuel mixture consisting of mostly wood, board, paper, plastics and RDF. The gasifier capacity is 40-70 MWth depending on fuel moisture, which is about 15% of the boilerfs average heat input.