Nation’s largest biogas plant inaugurated

Plant in Be’er Tuviya will be able to provide electricity equivalent to the consumption needs of more than 6,000 homes.

Local and national government officials in Be’er Tuviya on Monday evening inaugurated Israel’s largest biogas plant, which will produce usable electricity from dairy and chicken farm waste.

In addition to providing a needed supplement of electricity to the region, the new plant will also help address ongoing concerns about water resource contamination issues as well as smells emanating from dairy barns and chicken coops, according to a statement from the Be’er Tuviya Regional Council.

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Put that garbage to good use

Experts want apartments’ welfare associations to try out an eco-friendly manner of managing garbage by setting up biogas plants on the premises.

‘IDEAL PLACES’

“Apartments are ideal places to set up biogas plants as they will have a network in the form of residents’ association besides a common space to set up these plants,” observes University of Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore Vice-Chancellor K. Narayana Gowda.

This will not only help take care of garbage disposal to a large extent, but also get them returns in the form of either biogas/electricity or manure, says Mr. Gowda.

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