Construction of a wood-chip boiler for Teplárny Brno in Czechia to begin in April, costing 2.48 billion

A consortium of Škoda Praha and OHLA ŽS will begin building a biomass boiler for Teplárny Brno at its Brno-sever plant in April. Representatives of the companies today signed a contract with the city of Brno and Teplárny Brno’s management. After the contract signing, Teplárny Brno CEO Petr Fajmon announced that the company had secured a subsidy of 1.67 billion korunas.

„The subsidy decision has already been signed at the Ministry of the Environment. The contract still needs to be signed, which should happen by the end of March. We will cover the remainder of the total cost of 2.48 billion excluding VAT with a commercial loan,“ Fajmon said.

Brno’s heating company has been planning to build a biomass-fired energy source for ten years. The project will involve rebuilding and modernising the plant in the city district of Maloměřice and Obřany. The Brno-sever plant was originally equipped with boilers burning heavy fuel oil and natural gas. When the company stopped burning heavy fuel oil, it replaced one of its three boilers with modern natural gas boilers and removed the other two. A biomass-fired energy source will be built in their place. The reconstruction includes up to 80 structural components.