An industrial estate in Ystrad Mynach is being powered with renewable energy.
Firm Novalux Energy has installed a combined heat and power (CHP) plant on the Withey Dyffryn Court Industrial Estate in Ystrad Mynach.
Thanks to Lombard funding of £1.75 million, all electricity and heat for the industrial estate is now generated on site.
The new plant has drastically improved energy efficiency, and has ensured that Withey Dyffryn Court tenants’ electricity is now cheaper and cleaner.
Novalux Energy Managing Director, Joseph Allcott, said: “Lombard’s funding has meant we have been able to revolutionise the way power is delivered and used across the whole industrial estate. Any surplus energy generated is sold back to the grid, and all tenants have received a free heating system and now benefit from very cheap power costs.”
Caerphilly Observer, a CHP plant is not necessarily “renewable energy” though it is energy efficient. The difference between CHP and a traditional boiler/generator set up is that instead of the waste heat being allowed to escape it is harnessed to provide heating for homes and businesses close by.
For this plant to be renewable energy the fuel for combustion must be from a renewable source, such as is the case with a log burner. There is no mention of the fuel used, it would be most interesting to find out exactly what is being burnt and where it is sourced from.
True. If the fuel is wood pellets from trees in an ancient swamp in Alabama that are then transported to the UK on diesel burning ships, trains and trucks it is not going to be a renewable energy plant. If it is burning locally grown trees that might just count.
That is correct Ian, no doubt Caerphilly Observer will conduct a little bit of investigative journalism to discover whether this plant is providing renewable energy or not.