Renewable Energy
Fig. 1. Biomass Power Ltd’s solution seeks to overcome the inherent issues normally associated with biomass power station development, such as planning restrictions, development timescales and fuel handling limitations.
New generation biomass power plant
Control technology helps deliver green energy as innovative biomass power plant goes on stream in Italy.
La tecnología de control ayuda a generar energía verde como las innovadoras centrales eléctricas de biomasa que se han puesto en marcha en Italia.
Die Steuerungstechnik unterstützt die Erzeugung grüner Energie in einem innovativen Biomassekraftwerk, das in Italien ans Netz geht.
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ith the design and build of power stations often delayed by planning objections or lengthy construction timescales, Siemens’ PCS7
process control system has been utilised on a new generation biomass power plant which is attracting worldwide interest from parties seeking green energy solutions. Staffordshire, UK-based, Biomass Power Ltd and solution partner, Capula Limited, have specified Siemens’ PCS7 control technology to help support a market-leading turnkey design and build power plant solution and overcome the traditional challenges facing any power station development.
Set up in 2009, Biomass Power Ltd brought together the industry knowledge of a number of experts with in-depth experience of the biomass and general power sector.
Gap in the market Under the leadership of managing director, Ben Talbott and engineering director, Martin Riley, the company spotted a gap in the biomass power plant market. Teir solution was to seek to overcome the inherent issues normally associated with biomass power station development, such as planning restrictions, development timescales and fuel handling limitations. Martin Riley, from Biomass Power, explains: “While biomass plants have been around since
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