State of the art biogas plant facilitates renewable energy – a stimulus for a whole region
On September 10th, 2010 the start of a new era for renewable energy was heralded by the presentation of a state of the art biogas plant located at the foot of the Federal Stud Piber. The plant which is to be completed by spring 2011 by the Styrian Company Grünkraft will heat the baroque castle of Piber and simultaneously produce enough electricity to provide for more than 722 households.
With this innovation the stud’s daily accumulated horse dung will be ecologically utilized and produce renewable energy. Cooperation with 60 farms will additionally ensure the sufficient supply of the plant. Additionally the biogas plant can heat more than 25 households with its heat loss – thermal output which is not only ecofriendly but also future-oriented.
Subsequently the electricity produced by the power plant will be fed into the public mains. Both Federal Minister Nikolaus Berlakovich and Elisabeth Gürtler welcome the Spanish Riding School’s innovative move and emphasize the importance of such plants for the ecofriendly production of energy.
Federal Minister Nikolaus Berlakovich: “This project has 2 pleasing aspects: as Minister of the Environment this biogas plant is a further step towards ecologically producing energy. As the representative of the Austrian Republic in the Spanish Riding School this project is the ideal symbiosis between modern sustainable management and tradition.”
Managing Director Elisabeth Gürtler: „This new project not only offers positive environmental aspects but also enables us to save costs which is imperative given the difficult economic situation of the Spanish Riding School.”
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This is a really great idea !! I would love to see this implemented everywhere there is a supply of raw material.
AntwortenLöschenYou have to have a good supply of poo-poo to make it feasible. ;-))
Romy
Yes :-))))
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