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Vechta, Germany, 2010-02-11 17:53:21
Currently, the Czech market for renewable energies is experiencing a veritable boom. Especially long-standing biogas plant manufacturers like WELtec BioPower GmbH from Vechta benefit from this development. The technology of the German plant builder is in high demand among international customers. Of the more than 200 biogas plants already built, exports account for more than 20 percent. In more than 25 countries, the enterprise supports its customers with service centres and full customer service.
WELtec BioPower received an order for the establishment of a biogas plant in Liberec, Northern Bohemia, in summer 2009 which the farmer and the investor will feed with maize, manure, and grass silage.
The 1.2-million-euro plant, which is operational since january 2010, has two fermenters with about 88,000 cubic feet each and two final storage units with a volume of 141,000 cubit feet. At the combined heat and power plant, a 536-kW gas-engine genset generates green energy sufficient for the equivalent of 1,000 three-person households.
The EU and the Czech government provide special investment incentives for biogas plant projects in the Czech Republic. As the per-capita carbon dioxide emissions in the Czech Republic are high up on the global list, there is a great need for reduction of CO2 emissions. In line with the EU climate protection goals, the government intends to generate 10 percent of the energy from alternative sources by 2010. Back in early 2008, this ratio was only about 4 percent in this country.
As early as 2005, an attractive feed-in act for ecological power generated by decentralised plants started to trigger a rapid increase in the production of electricity from green sources. The feed-in tariffs are capped in terms of the time and amount: depending on the biomass used, Czech power producers receive 12.9 or 15.2 ct/kWh for a period of 15 years. The eco tax, which was introduced in 2008 and which makes fossil energy sources more expensive, serves as an additional incentive.
All in all, the European fund offers EUR 5 billion for environmental projects until 2013. Moreover, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development backs a rural development programme. The programme provides farmers with a total of EUR 250 million for agricultural diversification and alternative energy sources. In this way, it will be possible to co-finance about 160 plants in the Czech Republic. Agricultural plant operators can benefit from investment subsidies of up to 30 percent.
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