Hungarian electricity distributor EDF-Demasz, a unit of France’s EDF, on Monday laid the cornerstone of a HUF 1.3 billion biogas-fueled power plant in Szeged (SE Hungary).
Project company Zoldforras Energia won a HUF 625m European Union grant to build the 1,200kW plant, said EDF-Demasz CEO Thierry Le Boucher.
EDF-Demasz owns a majority stake in Zoldforras Energia. Minority stakes are held by agribusinesses Agroplanta, Karotin and Pigmark, and by Deak, a company owned by the local university.
The power plant will generate an annual 7.39GWh of electricity and 6.94GWh of heat energy.
EDF-Demasz is funding research at the Szeged University of Science that seeks to produced biogas faster and more efficiently, Le Boucher said.
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