The customer will be responsible for the delivery in Kirkkonummi in September 2025 and the delivery in Espoo in December 2025.
Heat pump plants will recycle excess, emission-free heat from Microsoft's two large data centers into Fortum's district heating network. The data centers will eventually provide 40% of the heat consumed in the network's catchment area. Fortum's district heating in Finland will be coal-free by 2024 and carbon neutral by 2030.
“The Microsoft data center excess heat absorption project is our flagship project to decarbonize our district heating production. We wanted to ensure that our automation technology partner was reliable and had the exact solutions we needed. Valmet has a compelling track record at our other production sites, which made our choice quite straightforward ,” says Teemu Nieminen, Project Execution Director for Fortum’s Heating and Cooling business in Finland.
“We are delighted to be involved in neutralizing Fortum’s district heating production in Finland. Heat pump plants are part of Fortum’s district heating system, including the Suomenoja power plant in Espoo, which has been operating with Valmet automation for years. In the future, new plants will be able to be remotely controlled and monitored from the Suomenoja plant. We have already supplied similar Valmet DNA automation systems to Fortum’s Vermo 2 and Mankkaa heat pump plants,” says Tom Bäckman, Sales Director for Automation Systems at Valmet.
Technical delivery information
The full scope of Valmet's delivery will include Valmet DNA automation systems and the Valmet DNA user interface for both the Kolabacken thermal power plant in Kirkkonummi and the Hepokorpi thermal power plant in Espoo.
About the client
Fortum is one of Europe's cleanest energy producers, and its actions are guided by its ambitious environmental goals. It reliably generates and supplies clean energy and helps industries decarbonize their processes and grow. Fortum's main activities in the Nordic countries consist of generating efficient, CO2-free energy, as well as providing reliable electricity and district heating to individuals and businesses.
