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29 August 2007 - Infinis is to buy Scottish Biopower's renewable portfolio and fuel contract business (Scottish Biofuel) for an undisclosed sum.
According to Platts, the portfolio, thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars, includes five biomass power projects totaling 125 MW of capacity, four windfarm projects also totaling 125 MW and options on another five windfarm sites. All of the projects are in Scotland and need planning permission.
A planning application for a 40 MW biomass power station at Westfield was submitted in January 2007 and the outcome is expected shortly. A planning application for a 40 MW combined heat and power biomass project planned for Killoch is to be submitted within six months, Infinis boss Alan Lovell said.
Planning permission for a 30 MW power-only biomass fuelled project at Damside, Fife will be applied for after Killoch, he said. Two other biomass projects, one using gasifier technology and the other based on anaerobic digestion technology and both less than 10 MW, are at an embryonic stage.
Rights to a larger biomass project planned for Chapelcross is also included in the deal but Lovell indicated that there were no immediate plans to progress the project.
There are also plans to build wind turbines at two of the biomass sites,
Westfield and Damside, said Lovell. However, scoping work at these two sites and another two unspecified sites, earmarked for wind build, has yet to begin. Lovell said it was unlikely that any of the projects would be generating before 2010.
Scottish Biofuel is a supplier of biomass feedstock to the renewable energy sector. The acquisition will help Infinis to secure sustainable sources of biomass feedstock for the proposed power plants. The feedstock will mostly come from short rotation coppice willow, forestry waste and waste wood.
Infinis employs 220 people across more than 80 sites generates renewable power from landfill gas sources in the UK but is looking to grow and diversify. It has already lodged its first application for wind generation at its Greengairs site in Scotland. It says it is the UK's largest renewables-only generator.
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