News

19 Dec 2008

AllMerus Energy Ltd., through Euro Holdings, has acquired the Biomasse Heizkraftwerk Herbrechtingen CHP plant in Germany from a group of owners.

Euro Holdings, which is managed by a London-based energy asset acquisition and development company AllMerus Energy Ltd., said it had bought the plant from previous owners Sturm Gruppe, a German automation and process engineering specialist, Finnish heat and power generator Fortum and German engineering consultant Ingenieurbüro Oskar von Miller, a subsidiary of OVM/ECH Consulting. The plant, which began operation in 2004, has a total firing capacity of 49MW of which 15MW is electrical energy. It also provides steam to two customers; Wismar-based German Pellets and Sturm Holz, a timber processing company, both of which have production units located adjacent to the plant. AllMerus Energy Ltd.’s operations and development company NovusEnergy, based in Germany, will operate and manage the Herbrechtingen plant. The current O&M team will transition to Biomasse Heizkraftwerk Herbrechtingen after an initial six-month period, a company spokesperson said.

13 Oct 2008

30MW Biomass CHP plant Brunsbüttel near Hamburg has started commercial operations.

After about 18 months of construction, the Brunsbüttel biomass power plant – one of the largest fresh wood biomass plants – was successfully put into operation. The Euro 24 million investment was developed by NovusEnergy GmbH, the German development company of AllMerus Energy Ltd. The project was started at the end of 2006 as a joint venture between NovusEnergy GmbH as the major shareholder and Stadtwerke Flensburg, the local municipal utility. The plant uses a conventional air-cooled grate-firing process with a total firing capacity of 30MW, of which 7MW is electrical energy. Brunsbüttel uses ca. 80.000 tons per year of untreated biomass fuel per year which classifies as “Nawaro” fuel under German renewables legislation.