Since biogas power plants were given the opportunity to acquire the status of a privileged energy producer, numerous plants have sprung up all over Serbia. According to the latest available data, during 2019, three times higher growth was achieved in this area than planned. Experts, on the other hand, point out that it is necessary to build such plants because that is the best possible way to treat waste generated during agricultural production. Otherwise, a huge amount of biomass would end up in one of the landfills.
The best illustrative example for such assessments is the company Green Technology First, which plans to build 4 biogas power plants in Sabac with a capacity of 1 MW (megawatts).
– We are building four power plants with a total capacity of 4 MW, which individually cost around three million euros. So, we are investing a total of 12 million euros in this project – says Milos Sreckovic, director of Green Technology First, for eKapija.
Speaking about the produced electricity, Sreckovic says that it will be included in the electricity supply system through EPS.
– We will sell the electricity we produce in our plants to EPS, and that energy will eventually participate in the supply of households or the economy – said Sreckovic.
The new biogas plants will use agrobiomass as the basic raw material for energy production, which the company buys from agricultural producers, which means that a huge amount of unnecessary waste finds its new purpose.
– Agrobiomass, harvest residues (straw, corn, soybean straw …) will be used for energy production in our plants. We buy raw materials from agricultural producers and we have made sure that agrobiomass is not burned at all on the territory of Sabac – the director of the company Green Technology First told us.
The best way to treat waste
Gas expert Voja Vuletic confirms for our portal the story that it is good for Serbia to build biogas power plants, because we have a huge potential, and thus we protect the environment.
– It is better to produce electricity from waste than to end up in a landfill – Vuletic states and adds that opening such plants is always a good thing, even if they are small.
And exactly such two new biopower plants should be built in the vicinity of Bac and Indjija. Namely, the companies Slovan energo and Green energy – Zelena energija plan to build a biogas plant with less energy power, below 1MW, in Selenca and Novi Karlovci.
Vuletic points out that these are projects that are very useful for the environment.
– Smaller power plants, with a capacity of up to 1MW, do not have a big impact on the electricity supply system, but they are still useful because of the way in which the issue of biowaste, which is a major polluter of the environment, is resolved – Vuletic concludes in an interview for eKapija.
