Grinsted DuPont plant switches to green energy

From next year, the DuPont Nutrition & Health plant in Grindsted, Denmark, will become virtually carbon dioxide neutral when the plant’s large coal boiler is retrofitted to burn wood chips.

“To fire with wood chips instead of coal is a huge win for the environment,” says plant manager Martin Madsen, DuPont in Grindsted.

“Not only will we remove 45,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide currently produced using non-renewable energy, but we will also increase the amount of ‘waste’ energy that we sell to the local district heating network.”

The Danish Agency Energy has agreed to financially support DuPont in its sustainability energy measures at Grindsted with up to DKK 61 Million.

 Troels Ranis, branch director of the energy group in the Confederation of Danish Industries, says the project is a good example of how companies can contribute to the green transition.

“We are experiencing an increasing interest from companies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions,” he says.

“The project in Grindsted can show other companies that conversion to renewable energy and focusing on sustainability goes hand in hand with commercial interests today.”

DuPont has worked with the project for a few years and expects to start construction in August, so the plant will be operating by the first half of 2017.

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