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First feed-in from the biomass plant E-Wood

Our team has made it! The E-Wood biomass plant supplies electricity and heat to the grid for the first time

December 2022

On December 1, 2022, the biomass plant built by SBG in Doël in the port of Antwerp fed electricity and heat into the grid for the first time. With this "precision landing", the plant fulfilled the requirements for obtaining the Green Certificates one day before the set deadline and secured biomass remuneration over a period of 15 years for the builders Indaver and Veolia.

‘It took blood, sweat and tears’

said Indaver's CEO Paul De Bruycker. 'First, there was the corona crisis that caused workshops to close and teams to be unable to work. All the spare time got used up with those corona delays. Then there was the war in Ukraine. At the moment it broke out, a lot of Ukrainian employees at different sites packed everything together. From one day to the next, they drove to Ukraine to serve their country.'

High investment for sustainable and environmentally compatible power and heat supply

The E-Wood project, a total investment of around €95 million, will enable the combustion of up to 180,000 tons of waste wood annually. The plant can generate 20 megawatts of electricity and 11.5 megawatts of heat for the Ecluse steam network in the port of Waasland in a sustainable, environmentally friendly and reliable manner.

 

 

»Despite the extremely difficult circumstances of this project (very tight schedule, Corona pandemic, Ukraine war, shortage of personnel) and the special tasks during the commissioning of the power plant which always had to be solved in a short time, we achieved our common goal "in the last minute". I would like to thank all participants from the bottom of my heart for the immense amount of work, which often went far beyond anything "normal" and made the achievement of our common goal possible.«

Project Manager

Frank Neuhaus

 

Biomass Heat and Power Plant
E-WOOD ENERGIECENTRALE NV BEVEREN, BELGIUM

Reference Sheet

The joint venture E-Wood Energiecentrale NV of Indaver and SUEZ is building a biomass power plant at the Doel site, near the Antwerp container port. As general contractor, Standardkessel Baumgarte will be responsible for the supply, construction and commissioning of the entire power plant.

The E-Wood biomass power plant will utilize approx.150,000 tons of waste wood per year and has an electrical output of 20 MW. The additional high-pressure steam produced will be fed into the plant's ECLUSE steam network at Waasland Port.

Technical Data

Fuel

Waste Wood

Rated Thermal Input

71,3 MW

Steam Capacity

86 t/h

Steam Pressure

73 bar

Steam Temperature

453 °C

Heat Supply

11,5 MW

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