Building of an 8.1-MWth geothermal heating plant in Konin has been accomplished, making this the tenth geothermal heating plant in Poland.
MPEC Konin has accomplished the development of a 8.1-MWth geothermal heating plant in Konin, Poland, supplying about 10% of the thermal vitality requirement of Konin. This additionally marks the tenth geothermal heating plant in Poland, carefully following the begins of operations of the Kolo heating plant earlier this 12 months.
With this improvement, the town of Konin now has a 3rd heating plant, complementing the biomass boilers of the Konin energy plant and a municipal waste disposal plant. Based mostly on its design, the Konin geothermal heating plant will generate roughly 8100 GJ per 12 months. The town can be contemplating placing up leisure services across the heating plant, positioned in Pociejewo.
An enormous however worthwhile funding
The development of the heating plant, in addition to the drilling of the Konin GT-3 injection nicely, was facilitated with funding from the Nationwide Fund for Environmental Safety and Water Administration (NFOSiGW). Nonetheless, efforts to probe for geothermal in Konin had began a lot earlier, with drilling of the primary nicely accomplished again in 2015. Even then, the geothermal potential in Konin had been ascertained, with the nicely tapping into temperatures of as much as 90 °C.
Slawomir Lorek, president of MPEC Konin, offered some particulars on how funding for the venture was raised.
Of the PLN 67 million whole funding for the venture, PLN 26 million in funding an one other mortgage of PLN 18 million got here from the NFOSiGW. The native authorities then contributed PLN 4 million. The remainder of the cash from MPEC Konin.
“It’s an costly funding if we translate the overall value into the quantity of put in capability,” remarked Lorek.
Nonetheless, Lorek additionally mentioned that the heating firm thought-about the worth of geothermal as an vitality supply that’s unbiased of geopolitics. MPEC Konin straight skilled the rise in biomass costs as one of many results of the Russian occupation of Ukraine
Lorek additionally expressed optimism that the geothermal heating trade in Poland will proceed to develop. With ten geothermal heating crops now constructed, the eleventh, in Turek, is already on its manner. “We’ll shut the 12 months 2024 with 10 operational geothermal heating crops, however we’d very very similar to to see one other ten constructed inside this decade,” concluded Lorek.
Supply: Portal Samordzadowy and Geotermia2030.pl
