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Altener EIE/04/117/S07.38588
PROBIOGAS - Promotion of Biogas for Electricity and Heat Production in EU Countries |
| Type of Project | ALTENER |
| Contract No | EIE/04/117/S07.38588 |
| Start Date | 1-1-2005 |
| Duration | 30 Months |
Abstract
Over the last 30 years, cost efficient biogas production systems were developed in Denmark, supported by governmental RD&D programmes. The results from Denmark prove that biogas from centralised co-digestion is a multifunctional technology, providing quantifiable environmental and economic benefits for agriculture, industry, energy and the overall society and is a very competitive tool in reduction of emission greenhouse gasses.
The project aims to transfer experience of the best practice of utilising RES and by this to promote the production of biogas for electricity and heat in EU countries. The project aims to raise awareness by proving that biogas is economically and environmentally beneficial to local communities and to the society as a whole and can contribute to achieving national climate and environmental protection objectives. The main objective is to transfer and apply existing knowledge to selected case studies in partner countries and to disseminate the obtained results to the project target groups and to a broad European level.
The project will assess and quantify the environmental and economic potential of biogas from anaerobic digestion in some selected case studies. The environmental and economic costs and benefits will be assessed based on a welfare-economic methodology, in which derived advantages and drawbacks are quantified and evaluated.
The assessment work will involve six case studies in partner countries, where biogas technologies are not very developed. The assessment work is carried out by the experts of the Assessment Core Group, in collaboration with the National Partners. The members of the project target groups will be interactively involved from early stages in the data collection and continuous dissemination processes. The final project results will be concretised in assessment reports and will be disseminated by a European seminar. A continuous dissemination will be provided by the means of web page (www.sdu.dk/bio), newsletters, conference papers, overall networking and collaboration with other networks and organisations etc.
It is expected that the assessment reports will clarify the incentives and the barriers for each nationa l target group and will establish a platform for the initiation of new future policy initiatives for the development of biogas. It is further expected that policy makers will subsequently initiate necessary legal changes to remove the identified non-technical barriers and to create favourable conditions for the development of biogas. The national target group networks will form the organisational structure necessary for initiating specific biogas projects. National authorities and policy makers will become aware of biogas as a multifunctional and cost efficient tool for RES implementation and GHG mitigation.
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University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
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