In the south-eastern part of Poland GDF SUEZ is going to replace of a coal-fired boiler at the Polaniec S.A. power plant by a new biomass fluidized bed boiler with a capacity of 480 megawatt.

The planned 180 MWe biomass power station is going to be the largest biomass power plant of the world.

Just for your records: the guys there are planning to destroy biomass in the amount of approximately 300 MW. As for any biomass power plant only 40% of the biomass chipped into the boiler will transform to electric energy.

60% of the biomass fired in the boiler will be for the nuts. This calculates to approximately 2 million cubes (m³) of waste wood to be destroyed without any use - even more, this 2 million cubes of wood will cause a tremendous amount of CO2 emissions caused by the transport of the biomass to Polaniec.

Crazy.

Taken from the Website of GDF SUEZ Energy Poland (May 21^st, 2012) [1]

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GDF SUEZ Energy Poland is heavily investing in sustainable energy production with a target of 280 MW by the end of 2012. This investment includes:

• a 180 MW biomass expansion of the Polaniec power station, making it the world’s largest biomass power plant,
• the development of wind turbines, including 71 MW already under construction.

For key account customers in Poland, we deliver the GDF SUEZ Global Energy offer, which includes:

• varied electricity price formulae: indexed on EEX or POLPX markets, fixed or clickable products.

Taken from the InternationalForestIndustries: [2]

BRUKS Klöckner GmbH delivers together with Polimex Mostostal Warszawa, a complete chipping line to GDF Suez Energia Polska S.A. Polaniec power plant in the South East of Poland.

GDF Suez is just erecting together with company Foster Wheeler a CFB boiler for a capacity of 190 MWe which is fired with biomass only.

BRUKS Klöckner’s scope of supply includes a drum chipper and the corresponding handling equipment.

Delivery shall be completed in September 2012 and start up is scheduled by the end of January 2013.

http://www.bruks.com/en/Other/News–Activities/News/Complete-Chipping-Line/ [3]