ZAGREB (Croatia), February 25 (SeeNews) – Germany’s EnviTec Biogas said it has signed a grid connection agreement with Croatian power utility HEP for a local biogas power plant project worth just under 5.0 million euro ($6.9 million).
The biogas plant, sited near the town of Donji Miholjac, in northeast Croatia, has already been issued a building permit, Zoltan Edes, area manager at the German company’s Hungarian-based regional unit, EnviTec-Biogas Southeast Europe, told SeeNews in an email.
”The project has been included in our business plan for the year 2011 and we work hard to have all the arrangements to move forward with the construction works.”
The biogas plant will have an installed capacity of 999 kilowatts and will produce 8,000 megawatthours (MWh) of electricity and 7,800 MWh of thermal energy per year, Edes said.
EnviTec Biogas said last month its regional unit will start the construction in March of a biogas plant in the village of Curug, in northern Serbia, with a rated electrical output of 635 kilowatts.
“Once the plant has been taken into service and runs successfully, we expect to win further contracts in Serbia. Negotiations with some prospects are already underway,” CCO of EnviTec Biogas Roel Slotman said in a statement at the time.
Asked what other regional markets besides Croatia and Serbia are seen as offering take-up potential for the type of solutions that the company provides, Edes said that EnviTec-Biogas Southeast Europe supports customers in Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Greece and Turkey and is looking forward to the Bulgarian market as well.
Lohne-based EnviTec Biogas AG (www.envitec-biogas.de) covers the entire value chain for the production of biogas, including the planning and turnkey construction of biogas plants as well as their commissioning.
The company is represented in more than 15 countries in Europe and as well in South Korea and India.
($=0.7237 euro)
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