NEWS
Whisky galore thanks to CHP at Speyside
New biomass boiler from Vital Energy for St Andrews
delivering power and heat to a whisky distillery The Craigellachie plant in Speyside will generate up to
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87.4 GWe and 76.8 GWth per year for the Macallan distillery and other local businesses. The plant will run on local forestry residue, which will be harvested by a growers’ consortium, transported to the site and chipped. The project is located within a 40-ha forestry plantation. Craigellachie CHP is being developed by Speyside Renewable Energy Partnership (SREP), which is made up of Estover Energy Ltd as well as equity investors John Laing Group and the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB). Speyside Renewable Energy Partnership Ltd was established to build a biomass Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant to provide heat to the Macallan whisky dis- tillery in Speyside and low carbon electricity to the grid. The site covers about 12 acres, in a 100-acre commer-
cial forestry plantation ¾ mile (1.2 km) north west of Craigellachie and around ½ mile (800 metres) from the Macallan distillery. The fuel onsite is clean, low-grade wood harvested with-
in an average radius of 50 miles (80km) and will generate up to 15 MWe of electricity (enough to power 20,000 homes) as well as steam that will be supplied to the distillery to provide heat for the whisky making process. The project represents an inward investment of £60
million to the local area and will boost the local economy by creating:- ◾Up to 40 new local jobs, including 20 permanent jobs
at the plant and a further 20 jobs in the supply chain. ◾Up to 100 jobs during the construction period. ◾A better market for low-grade wood, which will help
local forestry growers by supporting the production of higher-grade wood making local forestry and woodland management more economic. ◾A more cost-effective, reliable and sustainable source
of energy for The Macallan distillery. A spokesman told UKPN: “Local scale biomass plants
like this one are good sources of low carbon energy, so their benefits extend well beyond the local sphere. They can help tackle climate change by reducing CO2 emissions. By using locally sourced and sustainable wood fuel they reduce our reliance on imported fossil fuels and create a more secure energy supply.”
Investment Bank (GIB). A proposed 3 MW anaerobic digestion plant near Ballymena has received £8.7 million from the Recycling and Waste LP (RAW) Fund, in which the GIB is a cornerstone investor, as well as £4.4 million from the Foresight AD EIS Fund, £8.7 million from Invest Northern Ireland and £1.5 million from biogas plant developer Xergi, which has also won EPC and O&M contracts for the project. The Ballymena project is being developed by Stream BioEnergy Ltd and is expected to be 100% fuelled by poultry litter. Meanwhile, RAW has committed £1.8 million to the 0.5 MW Gorthill AD project in Eglington in County Londonderry, with a matching amount coming from SQN Capital Management. The project is planned to use grass silage, poultry litter and cattle slurry as feedstock. Williams Industrial Services will act as EPC and O&M contractor on the Gorthill project. Agricultural biogas plants typically consist of a number of low digesters built either from concrete or metal. They are often topped by a twin-skinned gas storage bag, giving them a characteristic appearance. The majority of biogas will be produced by the first digestion tank with a lower gas yield being attained in the secondary digestate storage tank. organic materials such as waste products may be used including slurry, manure, vegetable waste, energy crops and glycerol from biodiesel manufacture.
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Two biogas combined heat and power plants slated for farms in Northern Ireland have received £10.5 million ($15 million) in funding from sources including the UK’s Green
or the past three months a new combined heat power (CHP) plant in the northeast of Scotland has been
A 6.5 MW biomass boiler weighing in at 130 tonnes has been delivered for a university campus district energy project in Scotland, developer Vital Energi has announced. The £25 million project at the University of St Andrews in Fife, currently under construc- tion, includes a biomass com- bined heat and power (CHP) plant and a 14-mile district heating network connecting 37 buildings. The boiler, from Swedish manufacturer Jernforsen, can produce over 8 MWth, Vital Energi said, and is expected to achieve over 87% efficien- cy at full load conditions. Mike Cooke, Vital Energi’s Regional Director, comments: "The boiler will be the heart of this energy solution, using up to 17,000 tonnes of locally sourced wood to deliver
greener, more affordable heat and hot water to the University’s buildings." A spokesman told UKPN:
“The St Andrews Biomass District Heating Scheme is one of the most exciting sustainable projects energy in the UK. The £25 million scheme will transform the old Guardbridge Paper Mill into a 21st century energy centre which will generate hot water in its 6.5MW biomass boiler and then distribute it through a heat network to its North Haugh campus where it will provide low-carbon heat and hot water.” Derek Watson commented: “With the biomass at its heart, the former paper mill site is on the verge of a new lease of life which lends itself to the creation of a range of renew- able energies.”
COGENERATION MARKET WILL GROW BETWEEN
NOW AND 2023 A market analyst - Grand View Research - suggests that an increasing power demand - coupled with rising application in renew- able energy - will boost the cogeneration equipment market between 2016 and 2023 . The market is expected to
grow at an estimated CAGR of 9% over that time scale. Rising energy prices is expected to remain a key driving factor for market growth, according to Grand View Research. CHP systems can operate at levels as high as 77% - 81% compared to around 46% efficiency of conventional systems and they can reduce carbon emissions by up to 29% compared with most conventional systems. Decreasing price and
abundant availability of natural gas, while supportive government policies along with ageing infrastructure are also expected to drive CHP equipment demand in the near future. The UK and Europe are
expected to exhibit highest growth rate over the forecast period owing to wide natural gas availability.
BIOGAS SMELLS GOOD TO INVESTORS IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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