Services provided

Project development
Authorisation planning
Implementation planning 
General contracting
Initial operation / trial run
Financing
CHP-maintenance

Type of plant

Agricultural Biogas Plant

Location

Ihlowerfehn, Landkreis Aurich, Niedersachsen, Germany

Initial operation

III. quarter 2006

Operation process

2-stage - two fermenters with parallel feeding, one of them can be used as a secondary fermenter

Temperature range

mesophilic

Fermenter

1 x 2.000 m³

Secondary fermenter

1 x 2.000 m³

Final storage tank

1 x 2.000 m³

Feedstock

Maize silage

10.500 t/a

Gas utilisation

Type 
Power electr.

1 x gas-CHP
500 kW_el

Energy production

electrical

4.000.000 kWh_el
-> requirements of 1.000 households

thermal

4.000.000 kWh
-> equivalent to 400.000 l heating oil

Use of thermal energy

concept for the heating of municipal facilities by means of a heat distribution system 

Special features

• Monofermentation of energy crops
• joint operation by farmer and BioConstruct