Entrade receives subsidy from the state of North Rhine Westphalia for wood power plant in the Eifel region

Dahlem-Schmidtheim/Düsseldorf (ots) - Pilot project in
Dahlem-Schmidtheim receives a subsidy of EUR 50,000 from progres.nrw
- the plant will come on stream in January 2013

ENTRADE Energiesysteme AG will be the first company to receive a
subsidy under the progres.nrw funding programme set up by the state
government of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW). The EUR 50,000 subsidy
will cover up to 25% of the total project finance and will go towards
the establishment of a modern wood-fired power plant which will be
linked to the public grid at the beginning of 2013 and will provide
heat and electricity to Entrade's headquarters in Schloss Schmidtheim
in the Eifel community of Dahlem.

The project has been developed by 'Netzwerk HolzStrom', a network
promoting wood as a source of energy which was founded in
neighbouring Bad Münstereifel and is made up of around 20 companies,
universities and public research institutes based throughout Germany.
The network includes the universities of Aachen and Zittau/Görlitz as
well as the Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT and the Energieforschung NRW
energy research cluster.

The decentral generation of heat and electricity from locally
sourced biomass products can be implemented in power plants of this
kind in many locations throughout the world, and can accordingly make
a major contribution towards solving global energy problems. The
plant in Schmidtheim, which is fuelled by wood chips and green waste
from the region, will serve as a reference facility for similar
projects within Germany and abroad.

"The decentral generation of electricity and heat from biomass for
which currently there is no other use", says Johannes Remmel,
Minister for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature and
Consumer Protection of the state of North Rhine Westphalia, "has
enormous potential, particularly in the rural areas of NRW. As the
state government we are delighted to be able to promote exemplary
projects such as Netzwerk Holzstrom."

Active contribution towards climate protection using local
resources

It is the aim of Netzwerk HolzStrom, which was initiated by
ENTRADE Energiesysteme AG two years ago, to develop the technology of
using wood for the generation of electricity on an interdisciplinary
basis. The objective is to develop for the market the small-scale
gasification of biomass for the provision of heat and power with the
support of innovative product solutions in the field of combined heat
and power (CHP), demonstrating in the process what potential this
technology offers. The installations are manufactured by the
network's partner Spanner Re2 GmbH in Neufahrn, which is already
producing them in a small-scale series.

The state of North Rhine Westphalia has grouped its energy subsidy
activities in the progres.nrw programme for the purpose of supporting
the development and market launch of technologies for the use of
regenerative energy sources and the more rational use of energy. The
aim is to make a significant contribution to cutting CO2 emissions
and accordingly to protecting the climate.

For more information please see also www.entrade.de and
www.progres.nrw.de.

Contact:
Entrade Energiesysteme AG
Julien Uhlig, Manager
Huschbergerstrasse 12
40212 Düsseldorf
Email: info@entrade.de
Tel: 02447 2181000