Pending a number of authorized and environmental selections, the geothermal heating plant in Konin, Poland goals to start out operations by April 2025.
Heating provide from the newly constructed geothermal heating plant in Konin, Poland has been stalled by a number of authorized proceedings. Nevertheless, the President of MPEC Konin, the municipal heating firm working the plant, is optimistic that the plant can begin operations by April 2025, simply earlier than the tip of the present heating season.
In October 2024, MPEC Konin introduced the completion of building of the 8.1-MWth geothermal heating plant in Konin. The development was supported by funding from the Nationwide Fund for Environmental Safety and Water Administration (NFOSiGW). Of the PLN 67 million complete funding for the venture, PLN 26 million in funding and 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.
To start out with the operations of the heating plant, the heating firm continues to be ready on two paperwork – the environmental choice for exploitation of the geothermal useful resource from the Regional Directorate for Environmental Safety in Poznan, in addition to the concession for warmth technology from the Power Regulatory Workplace.
MPEC Konin had additionally submitted paperwork for the procedures for brand new warmth tariffs, though the above-mentioned selections will nonetheless be wanted to complement the applying. In any case, the share of the brand new geothermal heating plant isn’t anticipated to have a brand new impression on the tariffs. Geothermal will account for less than 5-10% of the warmth provide in Konin, with the remaining coming from biomass and waste incineration.
The corporate president states that a number of the paperwork can solely be accomplished as soon as building has completed. “That is an administrative process lasting a number of months, conditioned by sure deadlines. We try to work on sure paperwork in parallel, however we won’t change the process. We actually need this heating plant to supply warmth already, as a result of it is able to function,” mentioned Slawomir Lorek.
Supply: Lokalne Media
