Story of South Bohemian company C-energy: From heat generation to flexibility aggregation

Energy company C-energy operates biomass boilers, battery storage systems, cogeneration units and several other supplementary energy sources in Planá nad Lužnicí. It is now entering a new era aimed at developing opportunities for aggregating electricity generation in the flexibility market. Among other things, the company also plans to support the Tábor region through a planned waste-to-energy facility, which is intended to help the city and surrounding municipalities manage the waste they produce efficiently.

The company focuses on the long-term sustainable generation of electricity and heat using modern technologies that minimise environmental impacts while ensuring the stability of the energy system in the Tábor region. Energy facilities such as cogeneration units, biomass boilers, battery storage systems and the planned waste-to-energy facility combine several types of energy generation and, at the time of their construction, ranked among the most technologically advanced facilities of their kind in the Czech Republic.

One of the most important steps in the area of social responsibility was the transformation of a coal-fired heating plant into a modern facility using renewable and low-emission energy sources. The original pulverised lignite boilers were converted around 2014 into fluidised-bed boilers burning lignite. These units were then converted between 2021 and 2022 into fluidised-bed boilers burning wood chips. An overview of all major sources at C-energy can be found at this link.