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Low-carbon combined heat and power

plant for agricultural produce

Information from Clarke Energy

he need arose for a new 217 000m² The glasshouse facility will be used to grow cucumbers. The project will enable the
glasshouse and energy centre facility to grow 10% of the cucumbers consumed in Britain using 30% less CO 2 than
Tin Cambridgeshire, UK. AGR, a conventionally heated glasshouses.
renewable energy company specialising in
low carbon energy generation, developed The equipment
the 217 000 m² glasshouse and energy The glasshouse’s energy centre combines a 33 MWth heat pump system with a
centre project and is its main EPC combined heat and power (CHP) plant comprising three high-efficiency INNIO
contractor. The company selected Clarke Jenbacher gas engines with CO 2 recovery. The installation of heat pumps will provide
Energy to supply and install the equipment renewable hot water heating to the glasshouse and will qualify for the UK’s Renewable
to supply electricity and heat energy to Heat Incentive (RHI).
the project. This installation comprises a IES Energy, regarded as leading heat pump manufacturers, will supply and install the
33 MWth heat pump system and a 9 MW heat pumps for the project. Their trusted partner Pure Renewables will design and install
combined heat and power plant. the open-loop collection system which will run over a total distance of 750 m.

Figure 1: An aerial view of the glasshouse at AGR Chittering, UK

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