The European Bioenergy Expo and Conference takes place at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire from October 8-10. The show has a major focus on the emerging UK wood energy market and will showcase companies and service suppliers from the whole supply chain.
“Anyone wishing to understand how they can profit from waste wood should attend,” said Richard Price of EBEC. “The show aims to bring together the whole wood energy market. Free workshops will cover all aspects of energy generation from wood.”
Pellet plants
Among the exhibitors is Balcas, which has a pellet-making plant in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, and is about to open a second facility in Invergordon, Scotland. The Enniskillen CHP plant uses wood as a fuel and produces up to 55,000 tonnes of brites pellets a year. It has more than 3,500 domestic clients and more than 150 commercial customers.
Balcas’s £26m plant in Invergordon, which is due to open in the autumn, will have double the capacity at 100,000 tonnes of pellets a year. It will use virgin product from sawmill residues, whole trees and private woodlands. The bulk of the whole tree inputs will be lodgepole pine, a species that has little commercial value as timber in Scotland. The new plant, again using a wood-fuelled CHP system, will export 5MW of surplus energy to the grid.
New income
Stewart Boyle, market development manager for brites in England and Wales, said the pellet plants turned essentially a disposal problem into an asset and a new income stream. “At our scale our fuel is usually competitive with oil and gas. As new developments increasingly incorporate biomass in the form of wood pellet fuel into their heating systems, we are well placed to thrive on the UK’s strong move to sustainability,” he said.
For further information visit www.ebec.co.uk.
