Prague bought a biogas station, will modify and expand it
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The Prague municipality bought a biogas station in Chrást u Poříčany east of Prague for 159.2 million crowns. The station is now used to process plant waste, the city plans to invest another 150 million in a biomethane gas purification device and to expand the station so that it can also process animal waste, said Deputy Mayor Jana Plamínková (STAN). According to her, on the contrary, the municipality abandoned the plan to build a biogas station near the incinerator in Malešice.
The station will be tasked with processing material from brown bins for bio-waste as well as from canteens and restaurants. According to Plamínková, after the reconstruction, the station will reprocess about 25,000 to 30,000 tons of bio-waste per year. The city has been offering brown bio-waste containers since 2020, and in the first two years of operation, the company recorded over 11,000 tons of waste in them. They have been free since this year, which, according to the municipality, has increased interest in their placement.
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 will cost 50 million crowns and should start next year. It will consist in the installation of technology for cleaning the produced biogas into biomethane with a quality at the level of ordinary natural gas, which will be able to be distributed in a standard gas system.
The second stage of the work will consist of expanding the station with a part capable of processing animal waste. “If the plans and timetables come out, the second stage should be at the end of 2025, that means launch in a new, modified form in 2026,” said Pajk.
In the past, the city planned to build a new biogas station on the grounds 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 the facility in Malešice was complicated due to the resistance of the local residents, who did not like the construction of the composting plant. According to her, the new station would also cost several hundreds of millions of crowns.
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.
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