Construction of the giant facility at Rjukan is underway and will be in operation during 2025. The plant is planned with a production capacity of 8,000 tons of trout per year. That equals roughly 22 million dinners annually (!).
“We will deliver 12 oil-immersed transformers rated at 2500 kVA and 22000 / 415 volts, giving a total output of 30 MVA. Eight transformers will be delivered before the summer, and the rest during the year,” says Ivar Lifjeld, Sales and Marketing Manager at Møre Trafo.
The deliveries go through Møre Trafo’s customer Nettpartner. The world’s largest land-based trout farming facility is also considering using surplus heat from what will be Norway’s largest data center facility, Green Mountain.
“We have also delivered most of the transformers to Green Mountain’s bases at Rjukan and in Rennesund. It is a big deal that our products will help keep the wheels turning at two such prominent super facilities,” says Lifjeld.
Hima Seafood is building the facility. The budgeted cost is NOK 2.5 billion. It will be a complete facility with hatchery, feeding, fry, on-growing, grow-out, mix, energy plant and slaughterhouse.
Hima Seafood cares strongly about sustainability and fish welfare. In addition to drawing surplus heat from the data centers, the facility will return chilled wastewater for cooling processes in Green Mountain data centers.
Hima Seafood has big ambitions to set a new industry standard for land-based farmed fish and fish welfare. They use the whole fish, and projects are underway to utilize by-products from production to extend the value chain.
The facility is 320 meters long with a footprint of around 27,000 square meters over two floors. Partial operations are expected to start in 2024.
A British and a Swedish investment fund provide most of the NOK 2.5 billion in financing, but several Norwegian investors have also put in money. Construction started in August last year after ten years of changing plans and owners.
Technology company Eyvi AS is building the plant.
FOTO: Evyi AS
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