Fortum and Lidl sign an agreement to utilise excess heat in the open district heating network
FORTUM CORPORATION PRESS RELEASE 13.11.2018 Fortum has signed an agreement to purchase the excess heat from Lidl’s Järvenpää distribution centre. Fortum opened its district heating network to clean heat producers in spring 2018. A large share of the district heating in the Järvenpää and Tuusula region is already carbon dioxide-free. The Lidl distribution centre in Järvenpää will produce about 700 MWh of heat annually for Fortum’s district heating network in the Järvenpää region. The amount is equivalent to the annual heating needs of more than 40 single-family homes. “Climate