The new plant helps Tullis Russell to reduce its fossil fuel emissions and significantly contributes to Scotland's ambitious renewable energy targets. In addition, excess electricity is exported to the grid.

Replacing the paper mill's 60-year-old coal-fired plant with this new biomass-fired plant reduces CO2 emissions by 250,000 t/y. Also the amount of waste wood currently ending up at the landfill and there, over time, emitting methane is reduced since the main fuel for Valmet's CYMIC boiler is recovered waste wood.