A new biomass-fuelled combined heat and power plant is being planned for the town of Nikopol on the Danube River sitting in the north of Bulgaria, right on the Bulgaria/Romania border. The biomass power plant will have a capacity of 15MW with a further 45MW available for heating.

The project will cost Bulgarian energy and construction company Enemona S.A. $79.68 million and it will be the first of its kind in the new European Union country.

“The organic biomass scrap, which has so far been wasted, will from now on bring benefits: employment, energy and comfort,” Enemona’s executive director Dichko Prokopiev said.

If this project can be brought on-line on time and on budget, the company Enemona plans to build two more such plants in northern Bulgaria by 2015. The three new projects will give Bulgaria a possible maximum capacity of biomass-produced electricity of 60 megawatts.