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According to a
recent news report of the Industrial Investment Council (ICC), the world's
largest biogas park has recently been opened for trial operation in Anklam,
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In the small Pomeranian city in the north, 40,000
tons of corn silage and 20,000 tons of swine manure will be processed into
up to 20,000 megawatts of energy - enough to power about 5,000 households,
according to in-Trust Capital Management, the Bavarian firm behind the Euro
10, 75 million investment.
The process works
basically like a digestive system", explained in-Trust executive Thomas
Kinitz. The raw materials are fed into large fermenters, building anaerobic
bacteria under pressure in temperatures around 37 degrees Celsius. Methane
and carbon dioxide are expelled, which is then converted with generators
into electricity to be streamed into the local power grid.
According to the
state agricultural ministry, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern hosted 24 biogas plants
generating 10.4 MW at the end of 2004, a number that is expected to almost
quadruple by the end of 2006. The largely agricultural region offers
bioenergy producers proximity to reliable raw material suppliers and vast
tracts of land for corn feedstock pasture.
Germany's
Renewable Energy Act guarantees access to the energy grid as well as a set
price for biogas-generated energy - which should mean ever more electricity
will grow" in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
The Industrial
Investment Council (IIC) is an investment development agency with the
mandate to support international firms in establishing and growing their
business in eastern Germany.
Automotive contact
person in the U.S. is Roland Flaechsig, Senior Manager.
He can be reached
at the ICC's Troy, Mich-igan office at (248) 643-6308 or at flaechsig@iic.de
. Further information is also available under www.iic.de
This article is
part of our series about alternative energies in conjunction with the
upcoming conference in Detroit BIOFUELS 2005 - TRANS-PORTING RENEWABLES INTO
THE FUTURE", to be held at the Detroit Athletic Club on Tuesday, November
29th, 2005, 9:00am-4:00pm. The conference is organized by the German
American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest in association with the German
Energy Agency (DENA) and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor (BMWA).
For further
information and registration please contact the initiator and coordinator of
the conference, H. Juergen Hess at the Chicago office of the German American
Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest:
hess@gaccom.org
or (312) 644-2662
You can also
register online through the website of the Chamber:
www.gaccom.org
Interested
professionals who would like to contribute an article about alternative
energies may contact the organizer and coordinator of this series, Reinhard
H. Lemke, Esq. at reinhardhlemke@cs.com or (248) 214 8370.
According to a
recent news report of the Industrial Investment Council (ICC), the world's
largest biogas park has recently been opened for trial operation in Anklam,
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In the small Pomeranian city in the north, 40,000
tons of corn silage and 20,000 tons of swine manure will be processed into
up to 20,000 megawatts of energy - enough to power about 5,000 households,
according to in-Trust Capital Management, the Bavarian firm behind the Euro
10, 75 million investment.
The process works
basically like a digestive system", explained in-Trust executive Thomas
Kinitz. The raw materials are fed into large fermenters, building anaerobic
bacteria under pressure in temperatures around 37 degrees Celsius. Methane
and carbon dioxide are expelled, which is then converted with generators
into electricity to be streamed into the local power grid.
According to the
state agricultural ministry, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern hosted 24 biogas plants
generating 10.4 MW at the end of 2004, a number that is expected to almost
quadruple by the end of 2006. The largely agricultural region offers
bioenergy producers proximity to reliable raw material suppliers and vast
tracts of land for corn feedstock pasture.
Germany's
Renewable Energy Act guarantees access to the energy grid as well as a set
price for biogas-generated energy - which should mean ever more electricity
will grow" in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
The Industrial
Investment Council (IIC) is an investment development agency with the
mandate to support international firms in establishing and growing their
business in eastern Germany.
Automotive contact
person in the U.S. is Roland Flaechsig, Senior Manager.
He can be reached
at the ICC's Troy, Mich-igan office at (248) 643-6308 or at flaechsig@iic.de
. Further information is also available under www.iic.de
This article is
part of our series about alternative energies in conjunction with the
upcoming conference in Detroit BIOFUELS 2005 - TRANS-PORTING RENEWABLES INTO
THE FUTURE", to be held at the Detroit Athletic Club on Tuesday, November
29th, 2005, 9:00am-4:00pm. The conference is organized by the German
American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest in association with the German
Energy Agency (DENA) and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor (BMWA).
For further
information and registration please contact the initiator and coordinator of
the conference, H. Juergen Hess at the Chicago office of the German American
Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest:
hess@gaccom.org
or (312) 644-2662
You can also
register online through the website of the Chamber:
www.gaccom.org
Interested
professionals who would like to contribute an article about alternative
energies may contact the organizer and coordinator of this series, Reinhard
H. Lemke, Esq. at reinhardhlemke@cs.com or (248) 214 8370. |
