ELMIB

By signing the sales contract with the Hungarian Power Companies Ltd., the Municipality of Tatabánya and ELMIB Co. have taken control over the Tatabánya Heating Plant. The town and the power company are going to start to prepare the intended developments, thus enhancing the efficiency of the power station and reducing environmental pollution. The change of ownership will immediately result in a 35% reduction in pre- and post-season heating bills.

ELMIB Group offers a new solution to modernize hospitals, surgeries privately or state-owned health institutions operating at a high cost and in bad conditions. It is the first time the company has appeared in health care with its ESCO-financing service which enables health institutions to modernize without having the resources for the investment. It is inevitable to reconstruct delapidated buildings and modernize outdated, energy-wasting systems not only to improve the quality of health service but also to reduce environmental burdens.

With the help of ESCO-financing health institutions can cover costs of refurbishment and modernization out of energy savings.
ELMIB Group has set up a new consctruction for health care, which enables hospitals and surgeries to modernize their delapidated buildings. The new solution also helps institutions protect the environment and facilitate savings.

Despite the economic downturn the number of gree energy projects in Hungary has grown considerably, which might bring about a breakthrough in the renewable energy industry. ELMIB Group expects a shift towards biogas and biomass power plants within the green energy sector. These expectations are justified by the fact that the construcion of almost 20 such plants have bee given the green light until the end of 2009.

The Hungarian Energy Office has given out almost 20 licences to build new biogas and biomass power stations until December, whereas there has been a remarkable slump in demand for building wind plants. ELMIB Group expects this trend to continue in 2010, partly because with its agricultural production Hungary is ideal for building biogas and biomass power plants.

According to the findings of ELMIB’s survey the number of wind plants licensed in Hungary far outweighed that of biogas and biomass ones, but trends have changed this year. Now there are considerably more plans to build greenfield biogas and biomass power stations. This year was the first to see the appearance of businessess solving their energy problems by building green power plants. Among investors there are agricultural companies which can generate energy from processing agricultural waste and the the end item can be used as a fertilizer.

ELMIB Group will start the construction of a biopower plant in Salgótarján in 2010. It is going to supply 3800 households and 700 institutions with cheaper heating and 20,000 households with electricity using cutting edge, environmentally friendly technology. The investment is going to generate 100 jobs.

ELMIB group will build a cutting edge, environmentally friendly biomass power plant in Salgótarján. The technology has been used in many countries in Western Europe for years. The construction is going to be finished by the end of 2012 and the virtually smoke-free plant fitting into the green concept of the city relying on local supply is going to solve the problem of cheap district heating of Salgótarján in the long run.

The estimated value of the investment is 9 billion HUF, and it will mostly utilize non-usable lumber, like the waste of the forestry and lumber industry, sawdust and timber. The plant is based on arboreal material, and its biggest advantage over traditional power plants is the lower environmental pollution. The smoke emission of the plant will be close to nothing, while the remaing ash can be used as fertilizer.