Production facilities

Our approach

Perpetual Next has production facilities throughout Europe. We focus on the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, and Estonia. In the coming years, we will scale up our existing production facilities, serving a vital infrastructure that needs to be operational at all times. But we are also constantly looking for new acquisitions, in particular existing plants that we can make more sustainable. We do this by mapping out the local, organic residual streams. With our conversion techniques, we turn them into the highest-quality products possible.

Production facilities

Primco Lelystad, the Netherlands

Heat and hot water

Our facility in Lelystad generates heat from prunings and thinning wood, landschaping and garden waste in the immediate vicinity of Lelystad.  Primco Lelystad is a supplier for Vattenfall en Ennatuurlijk. The heat system, with a capacity of 15 MWth, serves 5,500 household equivalents and six government buildings. This saves about 7.5 million Nm3 of fossil natural gas. In the future, even more households will be connected to the Lelystad heat network.   
  
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With the residual heat from the power station, Primco produces hot water for a distributor for sustainable weed control, processionary caterpillar control and large-scale cleaning of production equipment in the food chain, for example. This keeps energy losses to a minimum.  
Primco Lelystad (central Netherlands) was completed in October 2018.  

Primco Moerdijk, the Netherlands

Food waste to biogas

Perpetual Next is in the final phase of acquiring OMR Moerdijk. This plant processes products from supermarkets that have passed their sell-by date (and can no longer be consumed) and organic waste from restaurants. Through a fermentation process, biogas is produced from these residual flows. We are looking into the possibilities of upgrading this to green gas in the short term, so that it can be mixed with natural gas in the existing natural gas network. As in the Trinity project, the residual product from the biogas production (digestate) is used to make farmland more fertile.  

Primco Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom

Green gas (under construction)

The Trinity project - with an 85% stake for Perpetual Next - is being built in Ellesmere Port (West England). It involves the development of an organic waste digester that will produce 4 million m3 of biogas from agricultural residues annually. The biogas will be upgraded to green gas, a sustainable alternative to fossil natural gas, which will be injected directly into Ellesmere Port's natural gas network. The residual product from the biogas production (digestate), will be used to make farmland more fertile.  
  
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The project will generate income in two ways: from a fee for the waste treatment and from the sale of green gas, for which a grant has also been made available by the UK government from the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). Green gas is important for making energy supplies more sustainable and is seen as an end solution in the energy transition.  

ENBE, the Netherlands

Expanding our green gas portfolio (five heat stations)

ENBE is a joint venture between Perpetual Next and Ennatuurlijk B.V. in a 50-50 construction. Ennatuurlijk is part of the Dutch pension fund PGGM and the French company Veolia that is active in the water, waste processing, energy and transport sectors. ENBE operates five district heating plants fuelled by natural gas and serves approximately 2,500 households in Culemborg, Wageningen, Hilversum, Zandvoort and Velp. With the acquisition of the ENBE power stations, Perpetual Next aims to expand its green gas portfolio. 

Baltania, Estonia

Biocoal on an industrial scale

 In Vägari, Estonia, a biocoal plant based on Perpetual Next's High Temperature Torrefaction technology has been under construction since 2020. A total of eight reactors will be installed in the facility, capable of producing 160 Kt of bio-coal per year. This coal has the same energy value as fossil coal.