Projects
This section contains background information on various biomass heating and cooling projects that are included in the movie. The information is also available in Bulgarian, Czech and Estonian, using the language selection buttons.
- Project 1: Pääsküla Landfill
- Project 2: Paide Boiler House
- Project 3: Leie Basic School
- Project 4: Liiva Boiler Plant
- Project 5: CHP in Třebíč
- Project 6: District Heating in Hostetin village
- Project 7: Bystrice DH plant
- Project 8: Cejc Biogas Plant
- Project 9: Biomass heating in Gotse Delchev
- Project 10: Bansko District Heating plant
- Project 11: Hotel Elina in Pamporovo
- Project 12: Biomass heating in appartment buildings
- Project 13: Biomass heating system at Ardino school
- Project 14: Güssing Biomass Gasifier
- Project 15: Biomass Combined Heating, Power and Cooling
- Project 16: Biomass heating and solar
Project 1: Pääsküla Landfill
The main activity of the company AS TERTS is the production of biogas (landfill gas). Until 2012 the company has the preferential right to manage the landfill of Tallinn and produce biogas. They are doing this already since 1994. Until now the produced biogas was sold to two boiler houses of AS Tallinna Soojus (a heating company) located nearby. Since December 2001, the biogas is used to fuel a combined heat and power (CHP) system.
| Country: | Estonia |
| Location: | Tallinn |
| Project type: | Landfill Gas production |
| Production of electricity and heat | |
| Owner: | AS Terts |
| Capacity: | LFG production: 2.2 million Nm3/year |
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CHP: 840 kWe + 1010 kWth |
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| Operation: |
LFG since 1994 |
| CHP since 2001 |
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Project 2: Paide Boiler House
In 2003, a modern 8 MWth wood-fueled boiler was installed at Paide's privately owned district utility, within the context of the Estonian-Finnish JI pilot programme. The boiler uses woodchips, residues of forestry operations and wood processing industries, bark, and sawdust. The biomass used replaces a large amount of fossil shale oil. The project has improved the long-term profitability of the district heating company, and has led to large reductions of emissions of greenhouse gases, and sulphuric and nitrous oxides.
| Country: | Estonia |
| Location: | Paide |
| Project type: | Combustion of wood residues |
| Production of heat for district heating | |
| Owner: | OÜ Pogi |
| Capacity: | 8 MWth |
| Operation: |
Since 2003 |
Project 3: Leie Basic School
In 2001 a series of wood pellet projects was initiated and implemented in Estonia, within the context of the Swedish SIDA Demo-East programme. One of the four demonstration projects carried out concerend the conversion of a light fuel oil boiler to the use of wood pellets, at Leie basic school in Kolga-Jaani. The fully automatic boiler heats a 10,000 m3 building, resulting in lower heating costs and lower emissions of greenhouse gases.
| Country: | Estonia |
| Location: | Kolga-Jaani |
| Project type: | Combustion of wood pellets |
| Production of heat for school building | |
| Owner: | Kolga-Jaani Municipality |
| Capacity: | 150 kWth |
| Operation: |
Since 2001 |
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Project 4: Liiva Boiler Plant
Since 1996, most of the district heat in the the municipality of Muhu is produced with locally produced biomass and peat. A 500 kWth biomass boiler was installed, replacing the old coal fueled installation. At the same time, a woodfuel supply chain was created which benefits the local economy. Most wood originates from landscape maintenance activities. The heat production costs were stabilised and the environmental benefits are clear - the town is free of coal dust.
| Country: | Estonia |
| Location: | Muhu |
| Project type: | Combustion of wood pellets and peat |
| Production of heat for district heating | |
| Owner: | Kolga-Jaani Municipality |
| Capacity: | 500 kWth |
| Operation: |
Since 1996 |
Project 5: CHP in Třebíč
The company TTS operates a large district heating system in the town of Třebíč. TTS started using biomass for heating in 2001, and now operates three biomass boilers with a combined heating capacity of 15 MWth. The company uses both wood chips and straw for heat production. One of the three boilers runs a 1.1 MWe combined heat and power (CHP) unit.
| Country: | Czech Republic |
| Location: | Třebíč |
| Project type: | Biomass for district heating |
| CHP on biomass | |
| Wood chips and straw | |
| Owner: | TTS |
| Capacity: | Wood chip boiler (3 MWth) |
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Wood chip CHP (7 MWth+1.1 MWe) |
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| Wood and straw boiler (5 MWth) | |
| Operation: | Wood chip boiler since 2001 |
| Wood chip CHP since 2005 | |
| Wood and straw boiler since 2007 |
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Project 6: District Heating in Hostetin village
A modern wood fueled boiler plant was installed in the village of Hosteting in the east of the Czech Republic in 2000. Most houses are connected to it through a small heating grid and brown coal use is something of the past. The installation has a capacity of 750 kWth, and was supplied by the Dutch company KARA.
| Country: | Czech Republic |
| Location: | Hostetin |
| Project type: | Biomass for district heating |
| Owner: | Municipality of Hostetin |
| Capacity: | 750 kWth |
| Operation: | Since 2000 |
Project 7: Bystrice DH plant
Bystrice nad Pernstejnem is a small city situated in the highland region of Vysocina in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. The biomass-fired boilers were installed during the reconstruction and extension of the central heating system, which was finished in the year 2002. New biomass-fired URBAS boilers with a total heating output of 9 MWth replaced original coal-fired boilers in the central boiler room. The combusted biomass is mainly wood waste from wood-processing companies, amd includes woodchips, sawdust and bark.
| Country: | Czech Republic |
| Location: | Bystrice nad Pernstejnem |
| Project type: | Biomass for district heating |
| Owner: | Municipality of Bystrice nad Pernstejnem |
| Capacity: | 9 MWth |
| Operation: |
Since 2002 |
Project 8: Cejc Biogas Plant
The private company Horak energo s.r.o. presently finishes the construction of a biogas plant in the area of a pig farm in the village of Cejc situated in the south-eastern part of the Czech republic. The plant converts the company's pig manure and a co-digestate into a methane-rich biogas, which is used to produce heat and electricity. The electricity is sold to the grid, and the heat is used for heating pig stables and for maize drying. The possibility of producuing also cooling for the stables is now being assessed.
| Country: | Czech Republic |
| Location: | Cejc |
| Project type: | Anaerobic digestion of manure and codigestion |
| CHP on biogas | |
| Heat for space heating and drying processes | |
| Cooling (future) | |
| Owner: | Horak Energo s.r.o. |
| Capacity: | 780 kWth |
| 750 kWe | |
| Operation: |
Since 2007 |
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Project 9: Biomass heating in Gotse Delchev
The heating system at hospital "Ivan Skenderov" in the town of Gotse Delchev used to be fueled with light fuel oil. In 2003, a 400 kWth biomass boiler was installed within the framework of a Dutch-Bulgarian cooperation programme. The boiler provides the base heating load of the hospital, and is fueled with biomass residues from sawmills located near the hospital. The boiler technology is Dutch, but the boiler itself was produced by a Bulgarian construction company. It was a first-of-a-kind demonstration project.
| Country: | Bulgaria |
| Location: | Gotse Delchev |
| Project type: | Biomass for space heating |
| Owner: | Hospital "Ivan Skenderov" |
| Capacity: | 400 kWth |
| Operation: |
Since 2003 |
Project 10: Bansko District Heating plant
The town of Bansko is situated at the foot of the Pirin mountain range in western Bulgaria, just 100 km south of the capital Sofia. In 2005 a new boiler house was constructed and a 5 MWth biomass fueled boiler was connected to the town's heating network. The biomass is supplied by sawmills in the town's vicinity. The heating capacity was doubled in 2007 by the addition of a second 5 MWth boiler.
| Country: | Bulgaria |
| Location: | Bansko |
| Project type: | Biomass for district heating |
| Owner: | Bul Ekoenergiya |
| Capacity: | 10 MWth |
| Operation: |
Since 2005 |
Project 11: Hotel Elina in Pamporovo
The ski resort Pamporovo is located in the Rhodopi mountains in central Bulgaria. One of the hotels has installed several small biomass boilers which are fueled with wood fuels from the surrounding forest. The boiler room contains 6 Bulgarian made biomass boilers, each of them with capacity of 50 kW. The capacity is enough for space heating in the hotel, heating the swimming pool and to supply two hot water tanks providing domestic hot water.
| Country: | Bulgaria |
| Location: | Pamporovo |
| Project type: | Biomass for heat supply in hotel |
| Owner: | Hotel "Elina Palace" |
| Capacity: | 300 kWth |
| Operation: |
Since 2006 |
Project 12: Biomass heating in appartment buildings
The company ERATO is one of Bulgarias first companies that supplies biomass heating under a heat contracting scheme. One of the locations is a dual appartment building constructed in 2002, where two 100 kWth biomass boilers supply heat for space heating and hot water preparation. The boilers are operated and maintained by ERATO, and the biomass is supplied from one of the company's biomass storage facilities around the city.
| Country: | Bulgaria |
| Location: | Sofia |
| Project type: | Biomass for block heating |
| Owner: | ERATO Holding |
| Capacity: | 200 kWth |
| Operation: |
Since 2003 |
Project 13: Biomass heating system at Ardino school
In the town of Ardino, in Central Bulgaria, several municipal buildings are heated with forestry biomass. One of the buildings, the town's school building, used to be heated with fuel oil, but in 2005 two automated 300 kWth biomass boilers boilers were installed as part of a World Bank funded fuel switch project. The wood chips are produced by forestry companies in the region.
| Country: | Bulgaria |
| Location: | Ardino |
| Project type: | Biomass for space heating |
| Owner: | Ardino Municipality |
| Capacity: | 600 kWth |
| Operation: |
Since 2005 |
Project 14: Güssing Biomass Gasifier
The world's most succesful biomass gasification plant is located in the town of Güssing in Burgenland, Austria. Clean wood chips from nearby forests are gasified and the gas is combusted in internal combustion engines. The heat is supplied to the district heating network, and used for kiln drying. The electricity is supplied to the national grid.
| Country: | Austria |
| Location: | Güssing |
| Project type: |
Biomass gasification CHP |
| Supply of heat to industry and heating network | |
| Production of Electricity | |
| Owner: | Güssinger Fernwärme GmbH |
| Capacity: | 5.5 MWth |
| 2 MWe | |
| Operation: |
Since 2001 |
Project 15: Biomass Combined Heating, Power and Cooling
The company Fischer Sports GmbH, well-known for their ski's, is located in the town of Ried-im-Innkreis (Upper Austria). Since 2000, the company takes its energy from a bioenergy plant that produces not only heat and power, but also cooling which is used in the ski factory for cooling their presses. The biomass is deliverd by truck and rail from sawmills and forests in nearby regions. This highly innovative project received the prestigeous energy globe award 2001.
| Country: | Austria |
| Location: | Ried-im-Innkreis |
| Project type: |
Biomass CHPC (trigeneration) |
| Supply of heat to ski factory | |
| Supply of coolingto ski factory | |
| Production of Electricity | |
| Owner: | Fischer Sports GmbH |
| Capacity: | 10 t/h process steam |
| 600 kWth (cooling) | |
| 600 kWe | |
| Operation: |
Since 2000 |
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Project 16: Biomass heating and solar
The Austrian energy contracting company Nahwärme.at operates several biomass heating plants all over Austria. The company's heating plant in the town of Gleinstätten (Steiermark) supplies heat to the local heating grid. Apart from a 2.5 MWth biomass boiler, the plant has a large area of solar heating surface fitted on its roof which supply large part of the required heat from spring to autumn. The Gleinstätten plant furthermore hosts facilities for drying and sieving wood chips.
| Country: | Austria |
| Location: | Gleinstätten |
| Project type: |
Biomass heating plant |
| Solar heating | |
| Biofuel drying and sieving | |
| Owner: | Nahwärme.at Energiecontrcting GmbH |
| Capacity: | 2.5 MWth (biomass heating |
| 1,315 m2 solar heating panels | |
| Operation: |
Since 2006 |
