Fortum joint venture will close its last coal boiler in Stockholm in spring 2020 - explores the possibility of making district heating carbon negative
Fortum's joint venture Stockholm Exergi will close its last coal-fired boiler for electricity and heat production at the Värtaverket power plant in Stockholm at the end of the heating season in the spring of 2020. The closure will take place two years earlier than originally planned.
In 2016, Stockholm Exergi replaced most of Värtavärket's old coal-based production with biofuels. The company is now investigating whether a carbon capture system (CCS) could be utilized at the plant, which would turn the plant into carbon negative. Based on the pilot in progress, bio-CCS is also a cost-