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Amel
Location: Belgium
Operator: Renogen SA
Configuration: 1 X 5.3 MW CHP
Operation: 2007
Fuel: wood
Boiler supplier: Wartsila
T/G supplier: ??
EPC: Wartsila
Quick facts: This CHP plant supplies hot water to two factories in a new
"sustainable industrial area" in the Ardennes region and electricity is
supplied to the grid. Fuel is wood residues from local forest products
companies. Wartsila has an O&M contract for the existing block and a
second module has been ordered for service in 2008.
Photograph courtesy of Wartsila
Posted 5 Apr 2007 |
Badín
Location: Slovakia
Operator: Kompala as
Configuration: 1 X 7 MW CHP
Operation: 2012
Fuel: wood
Boiler supplier: Adato
T/G supplier: Ekol
EPC: Adato
Quick facts: On 12 Feb 2012, this unit in Banská Bystrica was handed over for trial operation.
It was built as part of a composting and biomass collection and disposal operation.
Photograph courtesy of Adato sro
Posted 31 Mar 2012 |
Bertrix
Location: Belgium
Operator: Energies Renouvelables des Ardennes
Configuration: 1 X 8.45 MW CHP
Operation: 2006
Fuel: wood
Boiler supplier: Vyncke
T/G supplier: MAN, Turbomach
EPC: AMEC, Vyncke
Quick facts: In Jan 2004, ERDA proposed to build a CHP plant at its new
pellet factory in Bertrix in Luxembourg province. In Nov 2005, the
turnkey EPC contract was awarded to a joint venture of AMEC SPIE and
Vyncke. Heat output is used to dry sawdust used to form about 100,000 tpy
of pellets. The €30mn investment was financed by Dexia Lease.
Photograph courtesy of Energies Renouvelables des Ardennes
Posted 1 Aug 2010 |
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Bio Cogelyo Normandie
Location: France
Operator: COFELY
Configuration: 1 X 9 MW CHP
Operation: 2011
Fuel: biomass
Boiler supplier: AET
T/G supplier: MAN
EPC: COFELY
Quick facts: COFELY Is a company of GDF SUEZ. The new biomass plant is to burn about 165,000 tpy of forestry wood or clean wood waste.
AET supplied the spreader stoker and auxiliaries, the APC equipment, ash handling equipment, stack, and related steel structures, piping, and
insulation.
Photograph courtesy of Aalborg Energie Technik a/s
Posted 5 Jan 2011 |
BMC Moerdijk
Location: Netherlands
Operator: BMC Moerdijk BV
Configuration: 1 X 36 MW
Operation: 2008
Fuel: poultry litter
Boiler supplier: Austrian Energy
T/G supplier: Siemens
EPC: Austrian Energy, Siemens
Quick facts: This is continental Europe’s first full-size poultry litter biomass power plant. It is owned by a joint venture of Delta BV,
Austrian Energy & Environment AG, and agricultural coops Duurzame Energieproductie Pluimveehouderij (DEP)
and Zuidelijke Land- En Tuinbouworganisatie (ZLTO). DEP will supply 440,000 typ of litter by truck, mostly from southern Holland.
Construction on the €150mn power station started on 28 Aug 2006 and the official opening was on 3 Sep 2008.
About 25 staff work at the facility.
Photograph courtesy of BMC Moerdijk BV
Posted 3 May 2009 |
Dél-Nyírségi
Location: Hungary
Operator: DBM Zrt
Configuration: 1 X 20 MW
Operation: 2009
Fuel: wood, biomass
Boiler supplier: AEE-CZ
T/G supplier: Siemens
EPC: EGI Contracting Engineering
Quick facts: This is Hungary's first purpose-built, greenfield biomass
power plant. It is owned by a joint venture of IGET Bioenergie Muvek,
GEA-EGI, and Tohoku Electric Power Co. It has semidry-type mechanical
draft cooling towers.
Photograph courtesy of AE&E CZ sro
Re-posted 6 Jan 2010 |
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Hebbag
Location: Switzerland
Operator: EKT Holding AG
Configuration: 630 kW CHP
Operation: 2010
Fuel: wood waste
ORC system supplier: ??
T/G supplier: ??
Quick facts: The Hebbag biomass power plant cost CHF 21mn and is a joint
venture of EKT (85%), forest products company August Brühwiler AG (15%) and Balterswil municipality (5%). It has three biomass boilers supplying the ORC system.
Photograph courtesy of EKT Holding AG
Posted 23 Nov 2010 |
La Facture
Location: France
Operator: Dalkia
Configuration: 1 X 50 MW CHP
Operation: 2010
Fuel: wood
Boiler supplier: Metso
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Metso, Sepoc, Tapro Engineering
Quick facts: La Facture near Bordeaux is one of the largest biomass power plants in continental
Europe. It was ordered in 2008 and commissioned in Oct 2010. Using mainly
bark and forest residues as fuel, the BFB boiler produces electricity for
the national grid and 74 MWt of process steam for the Smurfit Kappa
Cellulose du Pin paper mill.
Photograph courtesy of Metso
Posted 15 Feb 2011 |
Pärnu
Location: Estonia
Operator: Fortum Termest AS
Configuration: 1 X 23.5 MW CHP
Operation: 2010
Fuel: wood, peat, natural gas
Boiler supplier: Metso
T/G supplier: Siemens
EPC: AF Group
Quick facts: This new CHP plant came online in Nov 2010 and was
inaugurated on 28 Jan 2011. Heating capacity is 50 MWt. Fuel is local
wood and wood resides and milled peat. The plant will cover the total
heating demand of Pärnu. The new plant has 16 staff and cost around €80mn.
Photograph courtesy of Fortum
Re-posted 16 Mar 2011 |
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Pecs
Location: Hungary
Operator: Pannon Power Rt
Configuration: 2 X 35, 2 X 65 MW
Operation: 1961-1965
Fuel: wood, natural gas
Boiler supplier: Danubius, Tlmace
T/G supplier: Lang, Ganz
Quick facts: This CHP plant was originally coal-fired. In 2004, one of the
65-MW units was converted by Kvaerner to burn wood and the two 35-MW units
were converted to gas.
Photograph courtesy of Pannon Power Rt
Posted 19 Sep 2004 |
Radauti
Location: Romania
Operator: SC Holzindustrie Schweighofer srl
Configuration: 1 X 5 MW CHP
Operation: 2009
Fuel: wood
Boiler supplier: ??
T/G supplier: ??
Quick facts: This is Romania’s largest biomass power plant and opened on 7
May 2009. Fuel is bark and sawmill and harvesting residues like chips and
branches. The €20mn investment cost was partly subsidized by AFM. Heat
output of 17 MWt is used for the kiln drying at the sawmill site and
electricity is fed into the grid.
Photograph courtesy of Holzindustrie Schweighofer
Posted 16 May 2009 |
Szczecin
Location: Poland
Operator: PGE Zespołu Elektrowni Dolna Odra
Configuration: 1 X 25, 1 X 18 MW, 1 X 5 MW, 1 X 72 MW CHP
Fuel: wood, hard coal
Operation: 1955-2000
Boiler supplier: Metso, Pauker, Cegielski, EKM
T/G supplier: Lang, Ganz, Escher Wyss, Siemens, Alstom
EPC: Energomontaz-Poludnie
Quick facts: Development of the original plant started in 1911 and the frst turboset went online in 1916. After the Second World War, the plant was run by the Soviets and returned to Polish authorities in 1947. Modernization and expansion activities started and ran for the next decade. In 2000, a new 65-MW T/G set was installed and, in 2008, it was decided to convert this to biomass operation. A Metso BFB was therefore installed and the converted unit went online on 26 Jan 2012 as the largest of its kind in Poland. Fuel will be about 550,000 tpy of wood chips and agricultural waste.
Photograph courtesy of PGE
Posted 26 Feb 2012 |
