Belgian tomato grower ripe for savings with CHP
Previously it used central heating to warm its greenhouses – now heat from the 500 kW engine is pumped back into the greenhouse. “Everything that comes out of the engine goes into the greenhouse,” stated EVW boss Jean-Pierre Van Wingen towards powerengineeringint.com. The new installation included 14 km of hot pipes and 7km of low temperature pipes across grower Gery Persoon’s 10,500 sq metre facility.
The CHP system cost €500,000 and is expected to save Persoon around €100,000 a year – therefore it should pay for itself in five years’ time.
Source: powerengineeringint.com