EFG plans major investment in Czech biomethane facilities

The Czech company, Energy financial group (EFG), has engaged in the energy processing of biodegradable waste and biomethane production.
It plans to increase the biomethane production capacity of its facilities to 100 GWh per year next year, and expects to spend hundreds of millions of crowns on this, it told the Czech News Agency.
By 2030, EFG wants to produce up to 500 GWh of biomethane from a total processing capacity of 380,000 tonnes of waste. The amount of green gas produced would correspond to almost 10% of the national target.
Last year, the biomethane production capacity of EFG stations was around 16 GWh, but this year it has already increased several times.
The capacity increase should continue next year to the level of 100 GWh of biomethane per year.
The group should be able to process up to 100,000 tonnes of otherwise unusable bio-waste per year in its facilities.
"This June, we started the operation of our newest biomethane production plant in Vyskov (southern Moravia), which we have invested over a Kc250m to convert into one of the most modern biomethane stations in the Czech Republic," said EFG's technical director Pavel Bures.
"Further investments worth approximately Kc130m are now being spent on the reconstruction and renewal of the biogas plant in Vysoke Myto (eastern Bohemia) and on more than doubling the production capacity in Rapotin (northern Moravia), where we have built the first ever biogas plant in the Czech Republic supplying gas from renewable sources to the gas network."
EFG also said it would continue projects to provide power balancing services (PBS) to help stabilise the power transmission system. It plans to invest over Kc300m in these projects.
"We have started work on three power balancing service projects with a total capacity of 28 MW. One of them will be at the Rapotin station, where the total capacity of the cogeneration unit will be used precisely in cooperation with biomethane production," said managing diector Tomas Voltr.

EFG Group, based in Prague, has been building and operating renewable energy projects through its subsidiaries since 2007.