Biogas Installation – Kilkenny Machinery Yard

Company name:

Kilkenny County Council.

Project actions:

Biogas installation: including biomethane racks,  PRS unit and installation of 40 KW biomethane boiler

Finance source:

Internal / RegEnergy 60%

Additional funding:

SEAI BEC 2022 programme 30%

% funding:

67%

Grant amount:

€81,517.27

Total project cost:

€121,724.25

25-year savings:

€47,598

Simple payback time:

21 years

Kilkenny County Council approached South East Energy Agency looking to reduce their carbon emissions from the site to support the councils climate action targets. The Kilkenny Machinery Yard building is heated predominantly by two natural gas boilers and gas radiant heaters which are significant contributors to the buildings carbon footprint.

South East Energy Agency took an innovative approach to the decarbonisation of the Machinery Yard. The site was identified as a suitable location to pilot the delivery of the RegEnergy biogas project, an EU funded Interreg programme aiming to create renewable energy demand–supply partnerships between urbanised and surrounding rural territories will lead to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Ormonde Upgrading are a bioenergy plant based in Portlaw, Co. Waterford, who partnered with South East Energy Agency on the Interreg RegEnergy project and will supply the biogas that will be used in the biogas boilers that South East Energy Agency installed as part of this project.