Lithuania-headed Axis Technologies, a company within the Axis Industries Group, has revealed that it has won the bid to build the largest biomass energy project in Latvia. Awarded by energy utility Rigas BioEnergija the EUR 30 million contract is for a 48 MW capacity biomass-fired district heating plant.
The project consists of two identical boiler plants in Riga, each unit consisting of a 20 MW biomass boiler with a 4 MW flue gas condensing economizer. The plants will be built in collaboration with the Latvian engineering and construction company Velve. Construction permitting is in progress and the companies expect to begin work in July.
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