| Project Owner... |
Engie
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| Project name |
Novawood
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| Status |
operational
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| Country |
France
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| City |
La madelaine
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| Type |
TRL 9 Commercial
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| Technology |
Grate
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| Raw Material |
organic residues and waste streams
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| Input 1 |
Railway sleepers and other waste wood (65 MW)
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| Output 1 |
power (electricity) (15 MW)
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| Output 2 |
heat (42 MW)
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| Technology Brief |
The high-efficiency cogeneration plant, NOVAWOOD, produces steam for the Novacarb plant in Laneuveville-devant-Nancy and electricity for the grid by incinerating waste products. As the main contractor, ENGIE Solutions arranges fuel collection from two sources: railway sleepers from the French national railway company (SNCF) and waste wood from SOVEN.
Novacarb's goal with NOVAWOOD is to reduce the factory's dependence on highly polluting coal by approximately 40% and reduce CO2 emissions by 150,000 tons per year. The biomass-fired CHP plant supplies steam to Novacarb's production facility, and it also supplies 115 GWh of green electricity per year to the national grid, equivalent to the annual consumption of around 65,000 households.
Energy is produced by burning two fuels: waste wood and railway sleepers. Waste wood, which is collected through collection centers and consists of discarded furniture, floors, doors, windows and pallets, is handled by SOVEN. By burning old railway sleepers, a new business area has been created and the modernization of the national railway network, owned by SNCF, can be done in an environmentally friendly way.
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https://www.engie.com/en/business-case/engie-x-novacarb
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Last Update: 2025-03-18 10:34:53