EEW Energy from Waste GmbH (EEW; Helmstedt Germany; www.eew-energyfromwaste.com) and AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business agreed to extend their partnership for the supply of sustainable steam from EEW to the Chemical Park Delfzijl through to the year 2033. The new agreement was signed by both companies in Berlin yesterday.
“This has been a long-term successful co-operation between EEW Energy from Waste and AkzoNobel,” says Rolf Kaufmann, commercial director at EEW Delfzijl. “I really appreciate that we have chosen to continue our excellent and loyal partnership so that we can supply green energy from waste through to 2033.”
“Chemical Park Delfzijl produces ingredients for many products essential to our daily lives,” says Knut Schwalenberg, managing director of AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals. “The partnership with EEW provides a reliable supply of sustainable steam, to continue production while limiting carbon emissions in line with our vision for more sustainable chemistry.”
Horst Bieber, technical director at EEW Delfzijl adds: “With the completion of our third combustion line in 2018, EEW Delfzijl will treat 576.000 metric tons (m.t.) of waste per year and is able to deliver more than 1 million MWh of process steam to AkzoNobel. This allows us to further increase the supply of green steam to AkzoNobel and the Chemical Park in Delfzijl for a more sustainable chemical production.”
“Parts of the refuse-derived fuel we utilize in Delfzijl are coming from the U.K. and made of municipal solid waste, which would otherwise be landfilled. Now, the steam supplied by EEW can be used to replace the steam produced from natural gas, helping to decrease carbon emissions,” adds Kaufmann.
EEW Energy from Waste is Germany’s leading company in the production of environmentally-friendly energy from thermal waste recovery. EEW develops, builds and operates energy from waste (EfW) plants. The Group’s 18 plants in Germany and neighboring countries thermally recover around 4.5 million m.t./yr of waste. By utilizing the energy contained in the waste, EEW generates process steam for industrial plants, district heat for residential areas and eco-friendly electricity for the equivalent of around 700,000 households. With biogenic substances making up an average of 50% of the waste, EEW generates energy from renewable sources in accordance with the German Renewable Energies Act (EEG), and saves 1,000,000 m.t./yr of CO2.