FlexGEN - Next Generation Advanced Flexible Biomass Power Plants

The future renewable energy system will call for a flexible system with a plethora of different production means and energy storage to meet the demand for the security of supply and affordability. A large part will be non-dispatchable and therefore require replacement capacity.

Today's heat and power plants cannot decouple the electricity and heat production, hence a flexibility limitation coupled with the heat demand. This needs now to be decoupled. The first step in decoupling can be to introduce a condensing tail with a suitable set of valves and a heat sink.

Further, the flexibility and efficiency can be increased with improved starting- and stopping capability, maximized load flexibility, and new advanced plant configurations.

The fuel yard is formidable energy storage that can compete with any other means at lower cost, robustness, and climate footprint. The project will be a very high industry-relevance research project where companies actively participate.