FRANCE – GREEN VALLEY ENERGIE
Biomass cogeneration
Green Valley Energie is a biomass cogeneration plant under construction located in Golbey in the Vosges region (France), with a capacity of 25 MW electrical and 100 MW thermal.
The plant will use approximately 230,000 tons/year of recycled wood (class B wood), collected in Eastern France, as well as 20,000 tons/year of residues from Norske Skog Golbey’s industrial process, a leading newsprint production facility which will also consume the bulk of the renewable thermal energy produced.
Green Valley Energie will be the largest cogeneration plant of its kind in France, producing 200 GWh of electricity per year and more than 700 GWh of renewable heat, generating CO2 savings of 210,000 tons per year and producing electricity equivalent to the consumption of over 13,000 homes.
Environmental impacts | Units | Annual basis | Asset lifetime |
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Renewable electrical energy | MWhe | 198 000 | 7 920 000 |
Renewable thermal energy | MWth | 705 500 | 28 220 000 |
Avoided emissions | tCO2 | 213 000 | 8 520 000 |
Biomass sourcing: regional waste wood |
Social impacts | Units | Headcount |
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Direct jobs related to operations | FTE | 35 |
Direct jobs related to the biomass supply chain | FTE | 265 |
Direct jobs in industrial activities maintained | FTE | 455 |
Population served with electricity | Households | 37 600 |