A major biomass fuelled electric power generation project in France is to be hosted by Cascades, Division La Rochette’s coated boxboard mill. Under the management of Cofathec, a Gaz de France subsidiary, the Cégaz project will enable a 7,500 t reduction in the mill’s CO2 emissions and generate 40M kWh of electricity that will be returned to France’s transmission grid. The cogeneration power plant will be operational by 2010.
The Cégaz project will promote an innovation that represents a first for France: wood gasification technology, the €30M cost of which will be covered by Gaz de France.
Daniel Parrot, managing director of Cascades La Rochette, comments: "This undertaking will make it possible for us to virtually eliminate our use of fossil energy, replacing it with biomass energy to achieve better control of our energy costs and to pool our equipment operating costs”.
The company has also commissioned a new turbine driven alternator fuelled by biomass. This €2M project will produce 5.4 MW/hour of electricity.
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