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Eco2
With more than twenty years of experience in the renewable sector, Eco2 understand what it takes to deliver quality renewable projects and how to make them work and deliver to their maximum potential.
Eco2’s experience is broad, having developed projects in sectors such as landfill gas, biomass, waste and wind and as a result it has a track record for delivery across technologies that is unparalleled in the sector.
Eco2 has been able to achieve this success through a highly skilled and experienced team and a strong commitment to quality. This commitment extends to our contractors, consultants, clients and partners and we strive to deliver best-in-class assets and quality service. As well as our own projects, Eco2 has been highly successful in partnering with developers and investors working collaboratively to ensure the shortest possible delivery timeframe and the maximum financial return.
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Margam
The 40MW Margam Green Energy Plant is a £160m renewable energy power station, located near Port Talbot, South Wales. It is fuelled by waste wood.
It entered commercial operation in 2019, generating renewable electricity via the Grid for homes and businesses – the equivalent of 75,000 homes. It directly employs 30 people, and indirectly about 50 people involved in the fuel supply side of its operations.
The plant receives Grade C / Class P63 woodchip, approximately 6,000t per week. The waste wood is typically sourced from municipal collections, recycling centres, transfer stations and civic amenity recycling sites. It can also use Grade A and B waste wood.
Margam Green Energy is owned by Glennmont Partners, one of Europe’s largest fund managers focusing exclusively on investment in clean energy infrastructure. Glennmont is a part of Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA.
Glennmont supports the area surrounding its Margam plant through a Community Benefit Fund, which is administered by Neath Port Talbot Council. The Fund supports a range of community projects.
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Natural Resource Wales
In 2020 to 2021, Natural Resource Wales made 16,000 tonnes of roadside woodfuel available to the open market in parcels sizes ranging from 25t to 3000t, as part of the continual sustainable management of the Welsh Government Woodland Estate. This is in addition to the woodfuel products harvested by our standing Sale customers across Wales.
Woodfuel is created from material that is unsuitable for products that demonstrate longer term carbon storage such as structural timber, garden products or board production. Examples of material include forest residues, hardwood thinnings and smalldiameter roundwood.
Our woodfuel products carry a mark of sustainability, and enables customers to prove Chain of Custody throughout the supply chain.
NRW supplies the biomass market with material that is converted into a range of wood fuels by our customers, such as woodchip for heating and power generation, Logs for domestic firewood, Wood pellets, or compressed wood briquettes
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enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk www.naturalresources.wales
BIOMASS
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PBE Fuels LTD – Pembrokeshire
We have been involved in Biomass since 2002 with the aim to focus on the emerging renewable energy industry. Initially we focused on Miscanthus – elephant grass - as a source of biomass fuel, and then expanded into wood chip production and wood pellet distribution.
At present we are supplying 20,000 tonnes of wood fuel annually which approximately replaces 9 million litres of oil equivalent, reducing CO2 by 33,000 tonnes.
Our aim is to create a successful circular rural economy, reducing fuel miles, creating local jobs and producing local heat for the off grid, hard to heat homes and businesses. We use wood residue to create our wood chip fuel from local sources. supporting sustainable forestry, with woodland creation and management, aiding our net-zero target ambitions and reducing the Welsh and UK reliance on fossil fuels.
Our sister company PBESCO LTD installs, maintains and services biomass heating systems. We aim to keep customers biomass systems operating as efficiently as possible. We offer a wealth of advice and support to people with biomass.
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