Wärtsilä - Company Announcement

Wärtsilä to supply six BioPower power plants to Germany

Wärtsilä Corporation, Company Announcement, 10 May 2007 at 9.30 local time

Wärtsilä has received an order for six turnkey biomass-fuelled power plants in
April. The total value of the order is approximately EUR 100 million. The
customer is the German-based company Bayernfonds BestEnergy 1 GmbH & Co. KG. 

Construction is planned to start in July 2007, depending on the construction
and operational permits being issued by the local authorities. It is
anticipated that all six power plants have been completed towards the end of
2008. 

“Wärtsilä's BioPower solutions are ideally suited for the European market,
which is strongly committed to the use of renewables”, comments Banmali
Agrawala, Vice President of Wärtsilä's Biomass business. 

“Wärtsilä's biomass-fuelled plants are clean and efficient. They are practical
solutions for meeting the need for renewable energy supplies with minimum
environmental impact”, says Andreas Heibrock, member of the executive board of
Real I.S. AG. 

The power plants will each have an electrical power output of 5.6 MWe. The
plants will burn wood residues from local forests, and the electricity that
they generate will be fed to the main grid. The commercial viability of the
plants is supported by the German EEG law that was specifically created to
promote investments in renewable energy. 

Bayernfonds BestEnergy 1 GmbH & Co. KG is a unit trust company of Real I.S. AG,
one of Germany's biggest bank-related fund initiators and a wholly owned
subsidiary of Bayerische Landesbank. 

For further information, please contact Ms Eeva Kainulainen, Vice President,
Corporate Communications, tel. +358 40 568 0591 

www.wartsila.com