Ground breaking concept for bioenergy
Friday, August 26, 2011
The consortium partners sign a contract before celebrating
the kickoff of feasibility studies. From left to right: Arne
Lægaard, chairman at Vestforsyning, Knud Schousboe, CEO of Struer
Forsyning, Jørgen Udby, CEO of Vestforsyning, Thomas Dalsgaard,
senior vice president at DONG Energy and Palle Meng, CEO of Nomi.
Photo: Jens Bach.
Together with local players, Danish national energy provider
DONG Energy is establishing a green energy consortium, Maabjerg
Energy Concept.
Over the coming 15 months, the consortium will determine whether a
number of bioenergy projects are feasible and will be profitable.
The consortium will explore project opportunities in the form of
new plants and conversion of existing plants.
All projects will be within the scope of green energy generation
based on local biomass and waste resources, which will be used to
generate a whole range of energy products, including biogas,
hydrogen, bioethanol and electricity and heat.
The consortium will look specifically at the possibilities of
constructing a second-generation bioethanol plant, expanding the
existing Maabjerg BioEnergy biogas plant by adding a hydrogen
generation plant, as well as converting the existing biomass-fired
CHP plant to enable it to handle waste products from the bioethanol
plant in future. Lastly, the consortium will study the
possibility
of constructing a waste treatment plant that will use enzymes to
separate waste
fractions for use in biogas production.
Besides DONG Energy, the participants in Måbjerg Energy Concept
are: Vestforsyning, Struer Forsyning and the waste company Nomi.
Jørgen Udby, Vestforsyning's CEO, is the chairman of the
consortium.
Thomas Dalsgaard, Senior Vice President, represents DONG Energy in
the consortium.
"Maabjerg Energy Concept is highly ambitious and innovative, not
just by Danish standards. It will be a historic breakthrough for
the energy sector if we succeed in implementing it in full scale.
That is precisely what we will be looking into in the coming
project phase," he says, adding:
"DONG Energy has built up extensive expertise in both biogas,
enzyme treatment of biomass and bioethanol production, and we have
already established a demonstration plant. The establishment of
Måbjerg Energy Concept will boost the opportunities for Danish
research and, especially, export of green energy know-how."
Maabjerg Energy Concept has launched a website. At the moment the website is in Danish
language only.
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