Stockholm Exergy AB, which owns the partially coal-fired district heating facility Värtaverket, received sharp criticism for klimatrapporten for the year 2017. In the Swedish registry envisioned that it had ” material misstatements”, the more serious class of note. The calculations would, therefore, be reviewed.
made their decision. As expected, the so, emissions were higher than those reported. It is 5.822 tons of carbon dioxide more than what was specified in the original emissions report.
However, will not Värtaverkets owners to be forced to pay any penalty. This is due to Stockholm Exergy has already been submitted allowances enough to cover the larger amount of emissions. The Swedish environmental protection agency representative said to the Swedish newspaper dagens nyheter in december that the error would likely lead to millions in penalties.
the Decision taken on February 14.
the equivalent of up to half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. It makes the work to one of the ten plants in Sweden contribute the most to climate change. It is one of the few in Sweden, and it is only in the Stockholm region, which is still fired, in part, with coal.
In december, the DN also tell you that Värtaverket has stated an incorrect figure in the report for 2015. Then it was stated that the work fired 52.000 tons of coal less than was actually the case. Another, correct, the figure has, however, used both for internal calculations and as a basis for authorities, the head of Stockholm Exergy then.
the Goal is that the fossil carbon will be phased out from Värtaverket up to the year 2022.
