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Climate Change
Sustainable solution to
biofuel production
Sunflowers growing around a biogas plant in Austria.
This year Wrights Farming Register is inviting representatives of the farming, conservation and
biofuels industries to share their views of the challenges that climate change presents. This
month Tim Evans, managing director of Lincolnshire-based company Renewable Zukunft Ltd,
writes about biogas production. With 15 years’ renewables experience, Tim was involved with the first east German biodiesel plant in 1994. A
fluent German speaker with a background in accountancy, rural property and farm business consultancy, he farmed a 3000ha arable and dairy
business in the former East Germany and is a director of Bio-G Biogastechnik GmbH in Austria.
A UK farmer-led renewable energy
company has formed an
innovative partnership with
Austrian biogas experts to provide
a sustainable and profitable
solution to biogas production.
The partnership between
Lincolnshire-based Renewable
Zukunft and Austrian company Ökoenergie Utzenaich GmbH, is
centred on a highly efficient
anaerobic digestion process,
generating consistently high
volumes of biogas and from a
wide variety of feedstocks
including slurry, silage, arable
crops and organic waste.
“Importantly, the carbon
neutral Bio-G Energy Ring system
contributes to an overall
reduction in greenhouse gases,
making it an environmentally
sustainable method of bioenergy
generation,” said Renewable
Zukunft director Tim Evans.
He explained: “Our research in
Europe and USA led us to our
Austrian partner, the company
which designed the Bio-G Energy
Ring system and built its first
biogas plant in 2003.
“What convinced us to invest in
the Bio-G (Biogastechnik)
partnership is the proven engine
efficiency and extremely high
engine operating hours of the
Energy Ring system. The Bio-G
system has consistently achieved
over 8700 operating hours a year.
That’s 97 per cent up-time, it
doesn’t get much better than
that,” he continued.
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