Syncraft Builds New Climate-Positive Power Plant In Wallern, Austria – CleanTechnica

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Another innovative stride in Upper Austria’s green-energy landscape is the groundbreaking of the new SYNCRAFT climate-positive power plant in Wallern, Austria. This facility will convert regional forest residues into baseload clean electricity, heat, and carbon removal (CDR), moving energy forward and removing carbon from the atmosphere.

From Waste Biomass To Climate-Positive Energy & CDR

This plant embodies SYNCRAFT’s climate positive philosophy — gasifying forest residues — to produce:

• baseload renewable electricity, fed into the public grid
  
• baseload high-temperature exhaust heat (up to 390 °C), repurposed for sludge drying
  
• highest quality carbon removal (biochar CDR), locking in CO₂ for long-term storage

Power Plant At A Glance

• Commissioning: March 2026
• Operational Integration: Waste heat used on-site; electricity fed into grid
• Client: Biogas Trattnachtal GmbH
• Country: Austria
  

The innovation lies not just in single-plant output, but in system synergy. Wallern’s climate-positive power plant complements the nearby biomethane plant operated by Wels Strom, culminating in a highly efficient, decentralized renewable energy network.

Austria continues to lead the clean-energy transition. The Syncraft Wallern project exemplifies the future of bioenergy, combining local resource use, carbon removal, and real community benefit through integrated thermal and electrical outputs.

Part Of A Growing Climate-Positive Power Plant Fleet

Wallern joins a fleet of +30 continuously operating SYNCRAFT climate-positive power plants in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Italy — from district heating projects in Perg (AT) and Wahlstedt (AT) to larger-scale power plants in Frauenfeld (CH) or at high altitude in the Engadin (CH).