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Biogas power station relies on Pöttinger machinery
Future-safe renewable energy on the way up
At the end of March this year the Upper Austrian municipality of Gaspoltshofen opened its new biogas power station to the public. Five farmers have joined forces to invest in future-safe renewable energy. The key initiator of the project is Helmut Sterrer, who has his own arable farm and also specialises in poultry. He manages the plant together with Gerold Wagner, who is also a farmer. They already have four Pöttinger tillage machines in operation to ensure optimum raw materials quality. During the opening celebrations there were also Pöttinger grassland machines on display too.
The plant is designed for 500 kW to produce 4 million kWh of electricity and 2.4 million kWh of heat per year. The plant processes silage from 120 hectares of maize, 23 hectares of pasture as well as dung from 78,000 birds, 800 pigs and 70 cattle.
| This adds up to 1,700 loads per year. Each of the farmers involved delivers biomass in proportion to their share in the plant, and distributes the processed dung out into the fields in the same proportion. The output from the plant is fed direct into the electricity grid and the heating station in Gaspoltshofen. |  |
In producing the bio raw materials, Gaspoltshofen relies on Pöttinger tillage machines. They have a whole range of machinery in operation from the plough to stubble cultivator, power harrow and seed drill. That is because optimum preparation of the soil and quality of the drilling process largely dictate the yield of the harvest and, in turn, the energy output of the biogas power station. It is precisely Pöttinger's forward-looking attitude to sustainable farming that goes into the design of their soil-care machinery which ideally meets the specifications of the "energy farmers" - as impressively demonstrated by the successful biogas power station in Gaspoltshofen.
 An impressive machinery |
 JUMBO Combiline and NOVACAT 8600 mower combination |
Author: Petra Kuchinka
Created: 29.06.2007
