EnviTec Biogas receives internationally acknowledged „Asian Power Award“ for Best Decentralized Power Plant in Asia

Lohne, 22nd October 2008 – EnviTec Biogas India Pvt. Ltd., a Joint Venture between EnviTec Biogas AG and Malavalli Power Plant Pvt. Ltd. received the „Asian Power Award” for the best decentralized power plant in Asia. The much recognised Asian Power Awards, also known as the Oscars of the power industry, serves to recognise the industry players in Asia whose efforts have stood out over the past year. The price is awarded for the cutting-edge project of EnviTec building biogas plants with a capacity of 30 MW in India. „We are very proud to receive the award and see it as our responsibility to further contribute to similar biogas projects in Asia” says Olaf von Lehmden, CEO of EnviTec Biogas AG, Germany.

Within the scope of a large-scale project for decentralised energy from the state-owned energy utility PEDA (Punjab Energy Development Agency) EnviTec Biogas India Pvt. Ltd. is delivering biogas facilities with an electricity output of 30 megawatts in Punjab, the country’s largest agricultural state. More than 180,000 Indian households will be supplied with renewable energy made by the German market leader for biogas-technology from next year on.

For the decentralized power plants EnviTec solely uses agricultural waste: „We only use harvest remains and no fruits like maize so we do not compete with the food chain“, explains Roel Slotman, Export Manager of EnviTec and Managing Director of EnviTec India. The energy demand in rural areas is constantly growing and EnviTec offers the opportunity to utilize local waste-sources to supply energy directly where it is needed and to support the economic boom in India. On the downstream side of the energy-production process the residues of the biogas-plants can be used as high quality fertilizer that will assist local farmers to ease fertilizer shortage. Additionally the co-generated heat supplied by the block power plant can be utilized for cooling fruits and vegetables. This provides local farmers with higher flexibility in terms of marketing their harvest.

All those benefits are not only limited to India. Kolluru Krishan, partner of EnviTec in India says: “Asia has a great potential for biogas-projects due to the abundance of agri-industrial waste-sources like manure from cow-, hog-, poultry-farms, palmoil-residues and other food production facilities and EnviTec has a unique track-record in the business”.
EnviTec is already present in China and Korea and currently is investigating project opportunities under the Kyoto framework of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in order to find waste-to-energy project partners throughout Asia and to help reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in this region.

EnviTec Biogas AG covers the entire value chain for the production of biogas - including the planning and turnkey construction of biogas plants as well as their commissioning. The company provides the biological and technical service and also offers the full plant and operating management. In addition, the company also operates its own biogas plants. In Penkun, in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, EnviTec constructed the world's largest biogas park with an electrical connected load of 20 megawatts. Today, the company is represented in more than 14 countries throughout Europe and as well in China and India. In 2007 EnviTec generated revenues of EUR 132 million and EBIT of EUR 18 million. The EnviTec Group has about 280 employees. Since July 2007 EnviTec is listed on the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange

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EnviTec Biogas AG
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