EPURON again sells biogas system to MVV Energiedienstleistungen
- The Vosshöhlen biogas project has an output of 0.716 megawatts
- Power for 1,500 households from maize silage and cow dung
- Operation planned for end of 2008
Mannheim/Hamburg, June 27, 2008 – MVV Energiedienstleistungen GmbH, is taking over a biogas plant in Vosshöhlen, Schleswig-Holstein, which is planned by EPURON GmbH, a subsidiary of listed Conergy AG. MVV Energiedienstleistungen will reinforce its commitment in the area of biogas due to this acquisition. The project in Vosshöhlen has an output of 0.716 megawatts and is already the third biogas plant taken over by the company since the beginning of 2007. Two of these plants come from EPURON which realizes projects from choosing and developing project sites, over project finance to technical and commercial management. The plant, which is already under construction, will be officially put into operation at the end of 2008.
Last year, MVV Energiedienstleistungen took the logical step of entering the German biogas market by purchasing a biogas plant in Saxony-Anhalt and another in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. "It is our duty as a responsible utility to increasingly use renewable energy sources", Managing Director Michael Lowak explained the company's philosophy. "The Vosshöhlen biogas plant fits our strategy superbly, which we have devised for the long term. In this connection, EPURON is an important partner for us."
EPURON develops and finances large scale projects for strategic and institutional investors in the area of renewable energy. Recently the company realized El Calaverón in Spain, the fourth biggest solar power plant worldwide, built with products and know-how from the Conergy group. "We are becoming increasingly active as a contract developer for strategic investors. We convince utilities with the high profitability of the biogas plants and an efficient and professional project structure", said Nikolaus Krane, Managing Director of EPURON.
In the Vosshöhlen biogas plant, 12,900 tonnes of maize silage will be fermented annually, in addition small quantities of cow dung will be used. The substrates will be provided by a local agricultural business. The biogas generated will be converted by MVV Energiedienstleistungen to electrical and thermal energy. From the end of the year, the company will feed 5,700 megawatt hours of electricity into the public power network, which will be paid for in accordance with the Renewable Energies Law. The usable waste heat of 5,400 megawatt hours per year will be available for the heat supply in the agricultural business, the creation of a local-heat network is in preparation. The fermented end product is used again on the farmer's fields as an inexpensive and highly efficient fertiliser. The cycle achieved here constitutes an ideal linking of agriculture and ecological power generation.