Weltec Biopower builds biogas park in Arneburg

In the second quarter 2010, WELtec BioPower will start building one of Europe‘s largest biogas plants in Arneburg, Stendal district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. From 2011 on, more than 350 million cubic feet of biomethane (more than 35,000 cubit feet/hour) will be produced every year in six fermenters, four digestate storage units, and one liquid reservoir, and will be fed into the natural gas grid.
Vechta-based WELtec BioPower GmbH is the general contractor, and NordMethan Produktion Arneburg GmbH is the investor and operator. “With this large plant, a total investment of approximately EUR 21 million, whose turnkey handover will take place in the Arneburg industrial zone in February 2011, we also create ten permanent jobs and two training positions“, says Jens Albartus, Director of WELtec BioPower GmbH.
The concept of the biogas park, which will be erected at a 10-hectare (25-acre) site, comprises the use of renewable raw materials and manure from 30 farmers who will need to travel no more than 9.3 miles, on average, to deliver the substrates. Moreover, the digestate accumulating at the plant will be used by the farmers.