Eleven million euros biogas plant built

Saving around 5,300 tons of CO ₂ annually or replacing a fifth of the gas requirements of the city of Vire (18,500 inhabitants): All of this should be made possible by a new 70,000-ton biomethane plant in Normandy. The eleven million euro project was implemented jointly by Weltec and Agripower France in the Papillonnière region and is to feed 270 cubic meters of gas into the grid per hour.

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WELTEC BIOPOWER GmbH

In Vire, France, in the Papillonnière region, Normandy, a Weltec Biopower biomethane plant went into operation in November 2020.

Vire / France - Turning agricultural waste into biomethane: In Vire (Normandy), France, the operating company Agrigaz Vire is starting a new plant that will ferment around 70,000 tonnes of substrates into biogas every year . This is then processed into methane and fed into the local network. The plant, built by Weltec and Agripower France, should produce 270 green gas per hour and save 5300 tons of CO ₂ over the year . This corresponds to about a fifth of the gas requirements of the city of Vire with 18,500 inhabitants.

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The raw material mix, delivered from an average radius of seven kilometers, consists largely of inexpensive waste and by-products from agriculture and the food industry. The fact that the companies in the agricultural society and the substrates come from the region has a major impact on the regional, sustainable character of the biomethane project. Two thirds of the 200 tons of input materials required daily consist of animal residues such as cattle manure, cattle and pig manure.