BnM to offer 15-20 year biomass contracts
As part of its long term plan to become the number one renewable energy supplier in Ireland, the company says it will need 15,000 hectares of willows within 100 km of the three power stations it supplies in the midlands.
However, a company spokesman admitted that Ireland’s other main energy crop, miscanthus, has been “a disaster”. And in nearly five years of trying to get their willow programme off the ground, their 650 acres is “very disappointing”.
