Sugar beet: Candy for biogas plants!

TeaserfotoAlmost all crops which grow on the fields throughout Europe
can be fermented in digesters and then be transformed into
either electricity and heat or fuel. Besides maize as presently
most efficient energy crop, also sugar beets offer interesting
options for the biogas sector.
Since 2012 at the latest, and following the German Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (EEG – Renewable Energy Act), which restricted the use of maize to a maximum of 60% of the total input in digesters, operators and owners of biogas plants increasingly opt for alternative energy crops. Read more…