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Romania: Ideal conditions to implement Biogas Technology
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Written on: 27. 11. 09 [15:54]
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probiopol_redmer
Sonja Redmer
registered since: 26.08.2009
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In a résumé of our Overview Report „Potential of industrial Biogas Polygeneration in Romania” we conclude, that Romania has quite ideal conditions to develop Biogas from waste to become an important column in the future infrastructure of the country. This is due to three facts:
1. As Romania has 0.7 hectares of agricultural land per capita (0.4 in EU-25), enough fermentable wastes do exist as potential feedstock for Biogas plants. Moreover, organic fraction in domestic waste is ranging from 50 – 65% in Romania. This is much higher than the European average. Up to 14 % of the Romanian power supply can be based on existing biowastes without using any additional agricultural surface to produce feedstock for biogas plants.
2. To upgrade the national energy system in Romania, large-scale investments are needed for upgrading, reconstruction, as well as for expansion of the existing capacities and the construction of green field capacities, in any case. In the ten years between 2006 and 2015, installations of 5.320 MW are installed completely new. On the other hand 2.185 MW old capacities will be shut down.
3. With the law 220/2008, Romania has a support regime, which is encouraging investments in renewable energy supply. Energy from Renewable Energy Sourses (RES) is hereby put on a competitive basis compared to the average prices for fossil energy. According to this law, electricity suppliers must demonstrate a proportion (5,26% in 2008, increasing each year and reaching 16,8% by 2020) of renewable electricity in their portfolio of supplied electricity through the ownership of Green Certificates (GC). Those GC must be bought from RES producers together with renewable electricity. The required RES share cannot be achieved in the coming years. This situation is expected to remain for many years to come, which will probably engender a maximum level for the Green Certificates prices (55 EUR).
So, industrial biogas polygeneration is a perfect approach for Romania to raise awareness and change the landscape of energy production. Industrial biogas-polygeneration systems will lead to an important energy efficiency increase of the whole system and demonstrate the integration of renewable sources and allow substantial reductions in energy supply costs.
Industrial biogas polygeneration is a technology which will decrease the overall costs of energy supply at the place of use and so demonstrates that renewable energy sources can be a perfect contribution for better economic competitiveness.
This conclusion can be fleshed out by the following facts:
1. Investments in Biogas from wastes are a very profitable business: For a 537 kWel plant (investment 2.300.000 EUR) which generates 65 % of the feedstock from own wastes and where 35 % of the feedstock have to be bought, an annual profit (EBT = Earnings before taxes) of more than 300.000 EUR can be reached after the first full year of runtime.
2. Cogeneration of Heat and Power (CHP) of Biogas from wastes could contribute 6% (4.443 GWh) of the Romanian national power consumption by 2020 and 14 % (11.107 GWh) of the Romanian national power consumption by 2030.
3. CHP of Biogas from wastes can also contribute a similar amount of heat in order to decrease consumption of oil or natural gas.
4. Biogas from wastes can avoid annual emissions of 2.221.000 tons of CO2 by 2020 and 5.553.000 tons of CO2 by 2030. Furthermore, another, even more important contribution to avoid Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions is the fact, that fermentable wastes which are no longer given to deposit don’t emit methane (CH4) anymore.
5. The installed electric output from CHP plants combusting Biogas from wastes can be 592 MWel in 2020, representing 3 % of the installed Power generation in Romania. This figure is resilient, compared to Germany where the installed electric output from CHP plants combusting Biogas in was 1.300 MWel in 2007 and 4.200 MWel are estimated for the year 2020 (including crops to biogas).
Knowing, that the average investments for a Biogas Plant with CHP Plant are in the range of 4.500 EUR per kWel, investments of about 2.665 Millions of Euro for biogas technology are required in Romania by 2020
Source: Measures, Means and solutions for industrial Biogas Polygeneration in Romania Project ProBioPol
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