Austrian Resort Inaugurates Its Climate-Positive Syncraft Powerplant – CleanTechnica

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In Going am Wilden Kaiser, Austria, the famous Stanglwirt resort has inaugurated its climate positive Syncraft powerplant. The family-run hotel was first mentioned in 1609 and today is one of the world’s leading mountain resorts which has seen guests from Mohamed Ali to Buzz Aldrin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and many more.

A Heritage Hotel Moves Into Clean Tech

Stanglwirt is known for integrating nature and sustainability into its operations. The hotel already runs its own organic farm and horse stables, and the new Syncraft installation pushes this approach further — from eco-friendly to climate-positive.

Syncraft’s powerplant converts regional wood residues into electricity and heat for the hotel, and green carbon (biochar), a stable form of carbon. Unlike conventional biomass plants that emit nearly all the carbon back into the atmosphere, Syncraft’s system sequesters carbon long term. As a result, the facility supplies renewable heat and power while removing CO₂ from the atmosphere — achieving a net-negative emissions balance.

For Stanglwirt, the facility replaces fossil-based energy imports with a closed-loop system that benefits local wood suppliers and supports responsible forest management. Hotels are energy-intensive facilities. Few generate their own energy, and even fewer deploy carbon-removal technologies. With this installation, Stanglwirt demonstrates that renewable energy and permanent carbon sequestration can be part of the mainstream infrastructure.

The Stanglwirt’s new power plant is a wonderful symbol: a heritage hospitality business with more than four centuries of tradition making a forward-looking move into climate-positive energy and industrial carbon removal. Syncraft has deployed over 45 such systems, and several additional Syncraft powerplants are currently being built — one of them in Waiern (Austria).