The neo-gas station for Prague will be built in Chrást u Poříčany
The station will have a task process material from brown bins into bio-waste and also from canteens AND restaurant. According to Plamínková, after the reconstruction, the station will process about 25,000 to 30,000 tons of bio-waste per year. The city has been offering brown bio-waste containers since 2020in the first two years of operation, the company recorded over 11,000 tons of waste in them. Free of charge they are from this year, which, according to the municipality, has increased interest in their placement.
The first step will be reconstruction
The station will be operated by the municipal company Pražské služby. According to the director of the Zdenek Pajka waste collection and recycling plant, the reconstruction will have two parts. The first one comes out on 50 million crowns and was supposed to start next year. It will consist in the installation of technology for cleaning the produced biogas on biomethane with quality at the level of ordinary natural gas, which will be able to be distributed in the standard gas system.
The second stage of the work will consist of extension of the station with parts capable of processing animal waste. “If the plans and timetables come out, then the second stage should be at the end of 2025, that means in 2026 the launch in a new, modified form,” said Pajk.
The station was to be located in Malešice
The city is also planning to launch a biogas station at the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant on Císařský ostrov, which will process the biogas produced during water purification into usable biomethane.
In the past, the city planned to build a new biogas station in the area of the waste incinerator in Malešice. According to Plamínková, the municipality is no longer counting on this and is focusing on the development of the area in Chrást. According to her, the construction of facilities in Malešice would be complicated due to the resistance of local residents who did not like to build composting plants. According to her, the new station would also cost several hundreds of millions of crowns.
Petr Novotný from the Institute of Circular Economy and former deputy mayor Petr Hlubuček for the biogas station. (2019) Daniel Vitous
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Author: Prague services