SYNCRAFT Reversepowerplant CHP Plant of the Year 2021

For around 21 years, Energie & Management magazine and the German Cogeneration Association (BKWK) have jointly awarded the "Combined Heat and Power Plant of the Year" prize. The jury selected the CHP Plant of the Year from plants that were featured as "CHP Plant of the Month" in the print edition of Energie & Management between January and November 2021. The award is intended to raise awareness of particularly innovative projects by municipal utilities and local authorities – including among the general public. This is because these projects make a significant contribution to the energy transition.

With the Reversepowerplant Ternitz, we have succeeded in bringing the award to Austria this year.

After only nine months of construction, the plant built by SYNCRAFT for KWS Ökokraft GmbH went into operation. With an output of 400 kW of electrical energy and around 600 kW of thermal energy, it generates 3 million kWh of electricity and 4.5 million kWh of heat annually. The power plant achieves an electrical efficiency of almost 30% and a fuel utilization rate of up to 92%.

The heat generated is fed into a district heating network as renewable energy, thereby contributing to the decarbonization of district heating.

What makes our reverse power plants special is that they generate climate-neutral energy, as unused forest residues _{release CO2}during decomposition. In addition, Green Carbon is Green Carbon as a further product during the process. This stores around 30% of_{the CO2} that was originally contained in the wood. If it is not burned but used sustainably, it remains permanently bound as valuable carbon and is no longer released into the atmosphere. In a further step, the entire system even generates_{negative CO2}, as more_CO2 is bound than released overall.

This concept definitely won over the jury. We are very proud that we were able to win this award, together with our customers and suppliers, from a total of 10 competitors.

(1st picture: from left to right Andreas Posch, Marcel Huber, Claus-Heinrich Stahl, Klaus Embacher, and Christoph Posch)
(2nd picture: from left to right Marcel Huber, Christoph Posch, and Claus-Heinrich Stahl)