When it comes to district heating, Sweden has made the switch from fossil fuels to biomass and waste heat (see chart). As early as 2015, biomass provided 46 % of the energy in district heating networks across the country, followed by 24 % from waste incineration and 8 % from industrial excess heat. Fossil fuels came only to about 7 % of the around 175 petajoules, or PJ, produced in Sweden in 2015 (latest data available).
Independence in terms of energy supply is one of the most important future topics. For this reason, ÖkoFEN presents a new, and as the company says unique system at the ISH expo in Frankfurt. The system allows single-family houses to be independent of power supply.
In Aarhus, Denmark’s second largest city, one of the world’s biggest biogas-fueled combined heat and power (CHP) stations is located. On October 10th the Studstrup Power Station switched to use exclusively wood pellets instead of coal. The plant is now providing green heating and electricity for the city and the surrounding area corresponding to the annual heating consumption of 225,000 residents.
The French finance law of 2015 already provided a seven-year tax exemption for agricultural biogas plants. From 2016 onward, that exemption will become permanent. It only recently came to light that the French tax authorities confirmed this in an administrative letter dated 6 January 2016.
A suburb of Melbourne, Australia, will get a Waste-to-Energy biogas plant with a capacity of 1 MW. The German biogas expert Weltec Biopower and Aquatec Maxcon are responsible for the plant’s construction, which is scheduled to take 14 months.
The German company Agraferm Technologies AG starts building its tenth biomethane plant in the United Kingdom. Overall, Agraferm has received three contracts for new biogas plants.
The efficiency label for new heating systems, water heaters and heat storage systems went into effect on 26 September. Many specialist publications, including our own, have been reporting on the topic for months. Trade associations have also been flooding the market with information, making it hard to keep track. For this reason, we decided to put together a summary of the most important points.
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