[Gasification] Potential Gasification Winner?

[Thomas Koch]

Alex

You are right – my explanatiion is not very clear.

In Denmark the electricity price that a producer can sell at varies between 4 and 10 €c/kWh – most of the time – 5-7 €c/kWh. On top of that is a green premium to guaranteed price. For gasifiers it is 10 €c/kWh – 74,5 øre/kWh - as far as I remember.  The comsumer pays aprox 30 €c/kWh.

If you use natural gas you pay approx. 1,2 €/m3 ~ 11-12 €c/kWh + plus cost of gas furnace.

In this market where a gasifier can sell electricity for 100 €/MWh and heat at 70-80-90 €/MWh (due to the losses in the transmission grid there are no money to pay the extra investment from a biomass boiler to a biomass gasifier. If you also take in account that the char losses on tha gasifier can be 4-10 times higher than for a boiler you end up at a loss.

This calculations can be different for different locations – eg. in Italy there has been extremely high green premiums (250-300 €/MWh) for a period. But it does not really help if the technology developers does not trust the Italian politicians.

Did that help you?

Best regards

Thomas



Fra: gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] På vegne af Alex English
Sendt: 29. juli 2012 19:21
Til: gasification at lists.bioenergylists.org
Emne: Re: [Gasification] Potential Gasification Winner?

Thomas,
I don't understand your comment.
Could you describe how the price of heat and electricity have changed to make "heat more expensive than electricity".
Thanks,
Alex English

On 29/07/2012 8:23 AM, Thomas Koch wrote:
But  - now heat is more expensive than electricity – and the cost level we have reached is 2-10 times the market price.
And of course none of the plants are no where near a commercial product (apart from one that is close to – but 2-4 times too expensive) because the investors are looking for projects that have a chance of being competitive with in 2-10 years.


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