Locally rooted
BECC is an energy company with strong local roots. Supported by government subsidies, the bio-energy plant started producing green electricity in 1999. Then owner Essent / RWE stopped the installation in 2010 when the funding ended. In June 2015, four entrepreneurial experts jointly took over and restarted the exchange, with NIBC Bank as an investor and with the support of Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij and the municipality of Cuijk.
Regional biomass
BECC only uses local biomass from residual streams. For the most part, this is pruning wood from the region, a circle of 100 kilometers around Cuijk. About a quarter of our fuel is scrap wood that has previously had a useful purpose. Additionally, we process a small fraction of paper sludge from one of our customers, the paper factory Essity. Because we limit ourselves to these raw materials as a matter of principle, not a single square meter of forest disappears for BECC's energy, and the environmental impact remains minimal.