Pan-European biomass supplier Active Energy Group has struck a deal to provide Biomasse Italia with more than a third of its annual material demands.
The bioenergy producer’s two power stations in south east Italy produce up to 500GWh with an annual demand for biomass of approximately 700,000 tonnes.
Active Energy will supply the Italian producer with a minimum of 240,000 tonnes of material from its Black Sea deep water port operations over a two year period from the beginning of next year.
“This is an important contract win and demonstrates the strengths of our business in terms of our ability to provide high quality biomass, in large volumes via our deep water port operations from reliable and sustainable sources in the Ukraine as we have demonstrated over the past 2 months with our initial larger volume ‘test cargos’ with BMI,” said Richard Spinks, chief executive of Active Energy Group.
“The energy industry is experiencing great pressure, across Europe, with tightening supply of wood chip and forestry products in general, particularly within the EU.”