DB Energy S.A., an industrial energy-efficiency services provider, signed a general-contractor deal with Schumacher Packaging to build a gas boiler house, with estimated investment of PLN 13.54 million. The work is scheduled for 30 weeks from site handover planned for Q1 2023.
Hitachi Energy won two major orders from Equinor and Polenergia for AC grid connections and STATCOM power quality solutions for the MFW Baltyk II and III offshore wind farms, with combined capacity of 1,440 MW. First power is scheduled for 2027, pending a 2024 final investment decision.
Equinor and Polenergia selected Hitachi Energy to deliver electrical systems infrastructure for the MFW Baltyk II and MFW Baltyk III offshore wind projects, totaling 1440 MW, in the Baltic Sea off Poland. The projects await final investment decision planned for 2024.
Rockfin sp. z o.o. will invest about 33 million zł to expand its existing Gorlice production plant, tripling production space and adding machinery and lines, with 30 new jobs, supported by the Polish Investment Zone program.
Valmet will deliver a BioTrac pretreatment system and a BioPower 48 MWth lignin-fired combined heat and power plant for ORLEN Południe's planned second-generation bioethanol plant in Jedlicze, Poland. The plant is due to start operation in 2024. The order value was not disclosed.
DB Energy signed an annex to its contract to modernise the combined heat and power plant at Schumacher Packaging's Myszków site, worth PLN 17.2 million and bringing the total contract value to PLN 35.1 million. Completion is expected in October 2022.
Northvolt announced a new highly automated battery module and energy storage systems plant with an R&D centre in Gdańsk, Poland, with investment of nearly USD 200 million and up to 500 jobs. Production is to start in 2022.
Danish wind turbine component maker Jupiter Bach is adding 6,000 m2 of halls to its Trzeszczyn plant near Police, doubling production capacity there. Completion is expected by early November 2017, and staffing is to grow by at least 100 within two years.
Sumitomo Heavy Industries completed its acquisition of FW Energia B.V., taking over Amec Foster Wheeler's fluidized-bed boiler business, which now operates as Sumitomo SHI FW including the Sosnowiec, Poland operations.