First Jatropha Plant By Wartsila Finland

Finland company, Wartsila has won a $11 million contract to build a 9 megawatt combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Belgium that will run on vegetable oil from the jatropha plant and to produce both electricity and heat.

This will be the first Jatropa facility in the world using carbon dioxide neutral fuels that do not compete with food crops since Jatropha oil was a liquid biofuel with great potential as it could be harvested outside the world’s rainforest areas, even near deserts.

Commissioning of the plant is expected to begin in February 2009 operated by Greenpower NV, a joint venture of Thenergo and four local agricultural companies and a private investor.

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