Dalkia arm powers up biomass boiler in Hungary

Nov 8, 2013 - Hungarian energy firm Pannonpower, a unit of Dalkia International, on Thursday powered up a HUF-24-billion (USD 109m/EUR 81m) biomass-fired plant that is to cater for the district heating supply of the Baranya County seat.

Thanks to the new biomass boiler in the city of Pecs, which uses as feedstock herbaceous agricultural by-products, the area will now rely on 100% renewable energy heating. According to a statement by the Ministry of National Development, the new plant will save more than 80 million cu m of natural gas annually.

Minister Zsuzsa Nemeth noted that the new plant of Pannonpower would support Hungary’s goal of covering 14.65% of its primary energy demand with renewables by the end of the decade. She noted that the plant would fetch HUF 4 million or more in yearly revenues to agricultural produces in South Transdanubia.

Pecs is also home to another Pannonpower wood chip-fired facility that generates enough thermal energy to match a third of the district heating supply of the Baranya County seat. Now with the addition of the new biomass boiler, the Dalkia arm can produce enough heating for more than 31,000 homes and 450 public institutions in Pecs plus enough power for the whole city.

Dalkia International is a unit of Dalkia, a joint venture of French waste management group Veolia Environnement (EPA:VIE) and power utility EDF (EPA:EDF)

(HUF 100 = USD 0.453/EUR 0.338)

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