The target for the project is to significantly reduce energy costs as well as to secure the energy supply. The total investment is 85 million Euros.The new power plant will generate process heat as well as electricity for the mill. It will also provide district heating for roughly 750 households and public institutions in Schongau. The renewed energy supply at the mill will be utilizing gas as a fuel.“The new gas power plant will improve the security and self-sufficiency of energy supply to our mill,” explains Winfried Schaur, General Manager, UPM Schongau. “The renewal of the energy generation ensures efficient production and will safeguard the competiveness of the mill."The start-up is planned by the end of 2014. The gas power plant will replace the old plant facility which has operated more than 40 years.