Services provided

Authorisation planning
Implementation planning
Financing
General contracting
Initial operation / trial run

Type of plant

Agricultural biogas plant

Location

Tespe, Landkreis Harburg, Niedersachsen, Germany

Initial operation

I. quarter 2009

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 2.900 m³

Secondary fermenter

1 x 2.000 m³

Final storage tank

1 x 3.900 m³ gas proof

Feedstock

Maize silage
Grass silage

Total

Gas utilisation

Type 
Power electr.

1 x gas-CHP
500 kW_el

Energy production

electrical


thermal

4.000.000 kWh_el
-> requirements of 1000 households

4.000.000 kWh
-> equivalent to 400.000 l heating oil