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Power plant permits

Hans-Roland LindgrenDirector

Swedish EPA

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Permit outline• General information• Court decisions• Production and

production levels applied for

• Description of formal handling

• Earlier decisions

•Application

•Comments from stakeholders

•Company comments on comments

•Court considerations

•Appeal information

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General information

• Date of decision• Register number• Legal applicant person with address• Issue

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Court decision

• Allowed production (products and amounts)• Postponed issues• Provisional conditions• Final conditions• Delegation to lower autorities


Formal handling

• Date for arrival of application• When and how made public for comments• Stakeholders giving comments and

proposals• Date for company comments on stakeholder

comments• Date for public hearing


Earlier decisions

• Overview of earlier decisions with dates for those, delegations and conditions

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Application• Orientation about the

company and reasons for the application

• Planned changes• Production and

processes• Energy and chemicals• External transports• Emissions to air and

water

•Waste and noise

•Risk for accidents

•Impact on the environment

•The EIA-process

•Location

•Techniques to reduce impact and related costs

•Proposed conditions


Stakeholder comments

• Swedish EPA• National Fishery

Board• Swedish Rescue

Agency• County Board

•The Regional Health Administration

•Local Authority

•NGO:s

•The public

•Labour Unions


Normal conditions for a coal based power plant

SO2 NOxPermits from the 80thies 35-70 mg S/MJt

(200-400 mg /Nm3as SO2)

65 mg/MJt(200 mg/Nm3)

New plant guiding values 30 mg S/MJt 30 mg/MJt

Technical requirements: FGD and SCR or advanced SNCR


Linköping Power Plant conditions (co-generation)

• The plant should be operated as proposed by the company if nothing else is specified below

• Dust from coal, oil and wood boiler should be below 15, 20 and 20 mg/MJt respectively as monthly averages

•The maximum dust concentration must never exceed 200 mg/MJt

•S emission must not exceed 50 mg/MJt as yearly average

•NOx emission must not exceed 90 mg/MJt



• The company should study how to reduce emissions of N2O and NH3. Limit values to be decided by the County Administr.

• Measures should be taken to reduce diffuse emissions from handling and storage of coal, other fuels and fly ash (as proposed)

•Chemicals and hazardous waste should be marked and stored under safe conditions under roof and on an impermeable surface

•Liquid chemicals should be stored indoors or under roof in such a way that the volume of the largest container and 10% of the rest could be contained inside an embankment



• Noise should not exceed: 55dB(A) during day 45 dB(A) during night 50 dB(A) during evening (18:00-22:00) in the closest living area

• Cooling water use should not exceed 40% of river flow during low flow conditions

•A self-monitoring programme should be prepared within 6 months. Decision by the Count Administration

•Air emission of Zn and Pb should not exceed 120 and 10 kg/year respectively

•Tires and other types of waste must not exceed 40% of the total fuel load (the last two conditions are provisional)Hans-Roland Lindgren 12

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