Energy from a natural source
Enefit Green owns a modern pellet production together with a biomass cogeneration plant in Brocēni, Latvia.
Pellet production in Brocēni started under SIA Pellet 4Energia in December 2016. From 4 February 2021, the pellet plant started operating under Enefit Green SIA. The capacity of the plant is 160,000 tons of pellets per year.
The production facility consumes natural energy resources – forest chips, sawdust and bark, as a result providing environmentally friendly energy for self-consumption and export in the form of pellets.
The research shows that about 10 million m3 of woodchip equivalent remain/rot in the Latvian forest every year. The Brocēni plant will be in sync with nature and forest utilising low-value timber, cleaning and tidying forests and the environment. It will exist in synergy and harmony with natural processes.
The Broceni pellet porduction complex includes a biomass-fuelled CHP plant.
The plant's annual electricity output is 33.3 gigawatt-hours that is sold to the Latvian grid and covers the annual electricity needs of 11,100 average-consumption households.
Its annual heat output is 125 gigawatt-hours that is supplied to the pellet plant complex.
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