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Wärtsilä has been awarded contracts by a UK-based brewer to supply and install equipment for two biomass-fuelled combined heat and power plants.

Wärtsilä has been awarded contracts by Scottish and Newcastle (S&N), the international brewing group, to supply and install two biomass-fuelled combined heat and power plants (CHP) on the premises of the company’s UK breweries in Manchester and Tadcaster.

The Wärtsilä BioPower plants will be the first power plants in the world ever to produce both electricity and heat using spent grain as fuel.

The CHP plants will each have a thermal output of 7.4MWth and an electrical output of 3.1MWe. They are due to start operations in the first and second quarters of 2009, producing steam and electricity for the breweries’ processes and exporting excess electricity to the local electricity network. S&N will earn Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROC’s) for its production of renewable electricity.

'The Wärtsilä BioPower plants will enable Scottish & Newcastle to make more efficient use of residue from its beer production, cut down on waste handling and energy costs, as well as reducing CO2 emissions,' said Tauno Kuitunen, regional sales director, Wärtsilä Biopower Plants.

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